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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

https://www.dawo.community/en/
378•fjfaase•4h ago•165 comments

Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage

https://www.inkandswitch.com/
58•iFreilicht•2h ago•9 comments

Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation
97•hugh4life•4h ago•39 comments

F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
1289•daveoc64•20h ago•372 comments

CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2

https://www.safateam.com/intelligence-hub/research/technical-articles/cve-2025-13032-entering-and...
64•safateam•5h ago•16 comments

Platform-Independent SIMD in Go

https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment
3•yurivish•31m ago•0 comments

Special Projects (2016)

https://openai.com/index/special-projects/
35•vinhnx•3h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
734•MitPitt•1d ago•101 comments

Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

https://www.ft.com/content/a96bf05a-a299-4d6a-a753-b298dd0f4016
50•Betelbuddy•1h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer

https://github.com/bertaye/agentic-cuda-optimizer
9•bertaye•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
332•sidharthkmenon•18h ago•120 comments

The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

https://economist.com/europe/2026/09/24/the-mafia-may-be-keeping-fentanyl-out-of-italy
80•runeks•1h ago•93 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
437•jbotz•19h ago•227 comments

Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust

https://tokio.rs/blog/2026-09-24-topcoat-server-applications
8•sagacity•2h ago•3 comments

What About Rails?

https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails
96•jrochkind1•9h ago•49 comments

2DWillNeverDie

https://2dwillneverdie.com/
262•surprisetalk•2d ago•61 comments

Amiga Screens: A Primer

https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/
21•msephton•4h ago•4 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
273•verdagon•2d ago•41 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
355•an0malous•1d ago•387 comments

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
352•cisc•1d ago•627 comments

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
349•ahmedhossamdev•2d ago•162 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io
296•iacguy•15h ago•154 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
141•benbreen•17h ago•31 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
469•ReturnoftheHack•1d ago•416 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
197•xnx•22h ago•403 comments

Writing Parquet files using Haskell

https://www.datahaskell.org/blog/2026/09/18/writing-parquet-files-using-haskell.html
72•cosmic_quanta•2d ago•18 comments

Boards of Casio

https://www.ambionix.com/blog/boards-of-casio/
4•fidotron•2h ago•0 comments

Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
129•ahelwer•3d ago•57 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
133•arusekk•16h ago•25 comments

Nokia Design Archive (2025)

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c
239•pillars•1d ago•129 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/