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John Ternus to become Apple CEO

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to...
903•schappim•2h ago•462 comments

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
60•icorbrey•2h ago•14 comments

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64
49•adunk•3h ago•11 comments

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
503•mfiguiere•9h ago•251 comments

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
129•Alifatisk•4h ago•12 comments

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/
27•OsrsNeedsf2P•1h ago•12 comments

GitHub's fake star economy

https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/
726•Liriel•15h ago•353 comments

Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want

https://morgin.ai/articles/even-uncensored-models-cant-say-what-they-want.html
16•llmmadness•49m ago•6 comments

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/
99•jlark77777•2h ago•41 comments

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
331•thomasp85•10h ago•71 comments

Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lifetimes

https://redixhumayun.github.io/databases/2026/04/14/zero-copy-pages-in-rust.html
10•ingve•4d ago•1 comments

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir/
107•conductor•3d ago•5 comments

F-35 is built for the wrong war

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/
150•anjel•3h ago•238 comments

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
95•hasheddan•6h ago•50 comments

Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/
65•krupitskas•1d ago•10 comments

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-an...
880•ramonga•9h ago•737 comments

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-g...
261•FiddlerClamp•7h ago•257 comments

AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing

https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/ai-resistance-is-growing/
278•speckx•3h ago•270 comments

Bloom (YC P26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trybloom/jobs
1•RayFitzgerald•6h ago

Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks

https://github.com/zeroecco/holos
17•zeroecco•2h ago•13 comments

Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025)

https://pmasschelier.github.io/x86_64_strings/
35•thaisstein•3d ago•3 comments

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/
254•Someone•13h ago•117 comments

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-min...
111•axbyte•14h ago•67 comments

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
184•tuananh•11h ago•168 comments

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026

https://mastodon.social/@jdm_/116429380667467307
179•luu•1d ago•98 comments

Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
532•meetpateltech•8h ago•273 comments

Sauna effect on heart rate

https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate
345•kyriakosel•9h ago•189 comments

Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication (2008) [pdf]

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~flame/pubs/GotoTOMS_revision.pdf
13•tosh•1d ago•0 comments

Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8
469•kevcampb•11h ago•110 comments

We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090

https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub
148•GreenGames•4h ago•42 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•12mo 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/