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Keep Our Servers Running

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this...
388•sonicrocketman•5h ago•86 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
217•azhenley•9h ago•80 comments

It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/mark-zuckerberg-resign-meta
19•domhudson•44m ago•17 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

106•imadtaieber•13h ago•87 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

147•jmpman•1d ago•85 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
260•xena•12h ago•133 comments

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim
28•timgordontg•3h ago•6 comments

Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/
87•ivell•3h ago•59 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
720•zImPatrick•14h ago•313 comments

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking
139•yubblegum•3d ago•103 comments

Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

https://gettogether.dev
45•nchudleigh•7h ago•18 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
281•Cider9986•12h ago•199 comments

NIXI has killed the "Dot In" domain name (2025)

https://www.naavi.org/wp/nixi-has-killed-the-dot-in-domain-name/
6•pkd•3d ago•3 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
74•ur-whale•12h ago•27 comments

TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

https://cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-plans-to-end-free-automatic-commercial-skipping-in-november-test...
58•dmitrygr•4h ago•22 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
166•iamsyr•17h ago•110 comments

I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/seeing-eye/
66•claytonwramsey•3d ago•67 comments

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0301
27•cyb0rg0•6h ago•1 comments

Asahi Linux on M3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/
453•mdp2021•18h ago•276 comments

Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM

https://bschaatsbergen.com/posts/go-tpm-tls/
25•bschaatsbergen•11h ago•32 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/
42•_alternator_•9h ago•62 comments

Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/never-tidy-paramedics-shoes-japan-custom-etiquette
97•high_na_euv•3d ago•106 comments

The NX bit is not just about security

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/guest/the-nx-bit-is-not-just-about-security/
66•torutofu•2d ago•34 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
403•tosh•16h ago•351 comments

Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?

73•usernametaken29•1d ago•45 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and
131•jaypatelani•16h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

https://github.com/marsbos/mador
86•bosmarcel•11h ago•28 comments

Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database

https://blog.glazer.ee/posts/converting-cronos/
50•pintprint•3d ago•4 comments

Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex

https://github.com/trailofbits/coop
17•aggrrrh•4h ago•3 comments

Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-hole-of-los-alamos
61•Bluestein•4d ago•15 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/