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You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
170•barry-cotter•1h ago•117 comments

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
191•damaru2•3h ago•51 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
61•nicowaltz•1h ago•23 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
75•czoido•4h ago•21 comments

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-s...
98•ilamont•1h ago•51 comments

US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software...
74•mywacaday•1h ago•31 comments

Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
4•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
173•evakhoury•20h ago•22 comments

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-fo...
102•doener•1d ago•41 comments

The systems that no one will test

https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/
96•perone•1d ago•36 comments

Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI

https://github.com/EverMind-AI/Raven
13•cyfyifanchen•2h ago•4 comments

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

https://www.startup-nights.ch/event/
33•sschueller•5h ago•11 comments

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for...
272•randycupertino•16h ago•676 comments

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
47•airhangerf15•1d ago•4 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
628•piotrgrabowski•20h ago•316 comments

Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote

https://countingfromzero.blog/2026/04/24/four-chi-26-papers-i-wish-i-wrote/
18•luu•2d ago•3 comments

Tank Body Problem

http://www.jimsitu.com
134•jimbooonooo•12h ago•30 comments

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/
259•logicallee•17h ago•90 comments

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster
115•nkko•15h ago•24 comments

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/gobeklitepe-burials-hundreds-of-scattered-bones/
152•yusufaytas•3d ago•42 comments

Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/optimizing-x264-settings-and-per-title-ladders.html
6•dabinat•2d ago•0 comments

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

https://github.com/firelex/jeff
524•firelex•16h ago•199 comments

Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World

https://evan-doorbell.com/
11•mikecarlton•4h ago•0 comments

New Cyber-OSINT model released

https://twitter.com/0x0SojalSec/status/2104736980768866439
28•soltanov•2h ago•6 comments

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
698•slowin•21h ago•572 comments

Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html
199•jonbaer•21h ago•250 comments

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/
269•ibobev•21h ago•87 comments

Sonnet 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
831•D2OQZG8l5BI1S06•18h ago•561 comments

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript
438•simonpure•21h ago•233 comments

Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-solve-1840s-space-weather-mystery/
116•gumby•16h ago•48 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/