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AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling
52•dorianniemiec•35m ago•36 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
57•js4ever•1h ago•25 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
333•_chall•9h ago•350 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
168•swq115•6h ago•26 comments

US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech

https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-...
457•DeepLogin•4h ago•297 comments

Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no
126•brandonb•2h ago•82 comments

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1669•Tiberium•18h ago•1129 comments

I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm78pxxe55v0o
34•tartoran•51m ago•16 comments

The Federated Code Forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
11•zlliang•43m ago•2 comments

The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
164•domhudson•3h ago•124 comments

Finding Panics with Call Graph Analyzer

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/242/finding-panics-with-call-graph-analyzer/
46•ndr•2d ago•0 comments

Polymarket 1h halt after vendor compromise; affected users will be 'made whole'

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/polymarket-trading-halt-hack-wallets-rcna606405
19•theanonymousone•1h ago•5 comments

Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/g-s1-150902/blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north-korea-to-6-3b...
14•paulpauper•49m ago•0 comments

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-...
138•benbreen•2d ago•40 comments

Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261026-00/?p=112797/
83•ibobev•3d ago•43 comments

Geist Serif

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-serif
18•Zm44•41m ago•8 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
310•cherioo•15h ago•206 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
210•surprisetalk•2d ago•35 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
368•sandslash•18h ago•149 comments

Commodore 1600 VICmodem

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-1600-vicmodem/
27•ibobev•4d ago•12 comments

Compile-Time Dependent Types

https://thenumb.at/Syl-Intro/
13•ibobev•4d ago•2 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1637•kuberwastaken•1d ago•426 comments

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
207•nvmdbljstm•2d ago•24 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•9h ago

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial-analysis-v5-and-the-benchmarkers
61•6thbit•2d ago•36 comments

Pell Puzzles Review

https://dles.gg/reviews/pell-puzzles
3•trizoza•2d ago•0 comments

Another Friday, another GitHub incident

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nxy2l0ssxm10
6•pelagicAustral•1h ago•0 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
563•ibobev•1d ago•302 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
494•ea016•1d ago•161 comments

Neal Stephenson on AI and What Comes Next [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii-aeW5pHPQ
34•justin66•2h ago•7 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/