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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/
107•jandeboevrie•2h ago•31 comments

I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
136•andrewstuart•1d ago•78 comments

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
149•ludovicianul•3d ago•69 comments

What's a Mathematician to Do?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do
16•ipnon•2h ago•1 comments

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
620•heldrida•1d ago•596 comments

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html
210•cainxinth•3d ago•76 comments

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html
67•MrGilbert•7h ago•47 comments

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/
196•dr_kiszonka•3d ago•85 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
329•imtomt•10h ago•161 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q
1•ukd1•1h ago

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-pr...
643•hggh•1d ago•106 comments

We see something that works, and then we understand it

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
138•surprisetalk•3d ago•50 comments

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search...
125•gmays•10h ago•24 comments

I’ve banned query strings

https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
462•susam•21h ago•239 comments

Think Linear Algebra (2023)

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html
23•tamnd•4h ago•0 comments

The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/
11•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/replacing-a-3-gb-sqlite-database-with-a-7-mb-fst-finite-state-t...
68•hiAndrewQuinn•3h ago•9 comments

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
334•LorenDB•23h ago•232 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
655•_alternator_•1d ago•478 comments

Local privilege escalation via execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc
178•Deeg9rie9usi•17h ago•82 comments

Debian must ship reproducible packages

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
242•robalni•8h ago•87 comments

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419
40•okey•5h ago•17 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder
250•cuechan•20h ago•75 comments

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
435•rbanffy•1d ago•171 comments

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/
12•_alternator_•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

https://github.com/nooga/let-go
207•marcingas•19h ago•58 comments

I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
126•speckx•3d ago•47 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html
116•ibobev•3d ago•64 comments

Show HN: Rust but Lisp

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp
157•thatxliner•15h ago•68 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
484•pretext•1d ago•262 comments
Open in hackernews

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (2003)

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf
76•rochoa•1y ago

Comments

buildsjets•1y ago
This is well over 20 years old and is based on pre 9/11 flight data. I would suspect that a lot has changed since then. So proceed with no caution at all.
gwern•1y ago
Since these sorts of things usually only get more and more complex over time, I would guess that it's all still true, but much more so.
throw0101b•1y ago
(2003)
throw0101b•1y ago
The PDF was produced by ITA, which famously used Common Lisp:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software

From 2001, a message from the same author as the linked paper:

> (Here's an email Carl de Marcken of ITA Software sent to a friend, describing their experiences using Lisp in one of the software industry's most demanding applications.)

* https://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

Qem•1y ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•1y ago
> Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?

Airlines and commercial aviation operators schedule their own flights. That is a dynamic schedulle. So, perhaps there is no "comprehensive data set".

However, FlightAware makes publicly available scheduled and completed flight data over many routes in the USA. You can search by route and get a list of flights.

Flight information includes filed departure time, route of flight, and speed. For completed flights actual time, altitude, and route is shown. For example, a search on the route Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin lists 45 flights.

I hope that helps.

foundart•1y ago
A very interesting dive into, as the title says, the computational complexity of air travel planning. Graph algorithms with lots of complexity added due to the wide variety of fare conditions that airlines have dreamt up over the years.

The article may be from 2003 but I would call it an evergreen. While I imagine some of the details have changed since then, I suspect that the complexity has only grown since then.

foundart•1y ago
It makes me wonder: Would an airline that drastically simplified its fares be more likely to appear in flight search results?

Simplifying the fares would make it less computationally expensive and, in theory, could take fewer steps to answer a flight planning query.

Imagine a flight search planner that, say, fanned out N airline-specific workers when handling a planning query and then displayed to the user whatever results it got back within some time limit. If FooAir had simple fares, the FooAir searcher would likely run faster than searchers for other airlines. Thus it would be more likely to return results for more queries, assuming the deadline is fairly tight because of usability metrics. (People don't tend to stick around waiting for slow results.)

sjburt•1y ago
At least a few years ago (~2014), the fare search was actually nearly instant, but all major airfare search sites added a delay because customers had the impression they were getting a better deal when they had to wait. It seems like the delay has been dialed back lately.
teleforce•1y ago
This is a very popular article that get submitted every now and then (nearly every year) [1].

I think this kind of problem would be a very nice for logic, optimization and constraint programming that probably can be solved with modern tools like Google OR-Tool or Monash University MiniZinc [1],[2],[3].

[1] Past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Computational%20Complexity%20o...

[2] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[3] Google OR-Tools:

https://developers.google.com/optimization

[4] MiniZinc:

https://www.minizinc.org/