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Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html
1247•j4mie•1h ago•233 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
971•kuberwastaken•6h ago•273 comments

The importance of communities around software

https://lumi.codeberg.page/blog/software-community.html
59•amcclure•1h ago•46 comments

Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-bos...
149•mgh2•3h ago•92 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
235•ea016•5h ago•105 comments

After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-walking-globe-uk.html
70•rafaelc•3h ago•42 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
261•ibobev•6h ago•140 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
15•airinei•35m ago•1 comments

Claude Duet is the future of chatbot interaction

https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/
39•nathanfig•3h ago•28 comments

DoorDash to acquire Instacart

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart
344•WalterSobchak•8h ago•542 comments

Edit an SQLite database in your browser

https://editsqlite.com/
46•chmaynard•2d ago•20 comments

One reviewer per layer: splitting code review by the way code is read

https://djordjepuzic.com/blog/posts/2026-10-27-one-reviewer-per-layer/
20•djordjep•2d ago•7 comments

Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers
239•882542F3884314B•10h ago•105 comments

IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design [pdf]

https://divergencelabs.com/publications/ige-preprint.pdf
19•matco11•1h ago•7 comments

Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks

https://skypilot.ai/blog/grace-blackwell-needs-a-new-scheduler
104•wondersky•5h ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

38•shong0504•5h ago•12 comments

Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms

https://github.com/emmilco/us-tax-model
28•RGS1811•1d ago•4 comments

Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok app for less than $20

https://www.scraping.club/p/tiktok-scraping-metadata
4•PigiVinci83•32m ago•0 comments

Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from

https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats
117•mektrik•6h ago•58 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
63•memalign•4h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape

https://github.com/lonthq/overtone-captions
13•rvanderlinden•3h ago•0 comments

Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic

https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-...
144•armcat•4h ago•14 comments

Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days

https://dynomight.net/math/
5•surprisetalk•3d ago•5 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
196•rokostik•8h ago•219 comments

NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748
147•luke8086•9h ago•116 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
111•ZeljkoS•12h ago•218 comments

noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang

https://github.com/theconsensuslabs/noalloc
60•g0xA52A2A•1d ago•35 comments

Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds

https://github.com/owls-on-wires/keplearn
82•owls-on-wires•6h ago•7 comments

I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/10/27/i-saw-future-driving-mexico-its-off...
263•bookofjoe•5h ago•289 comments

The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

https://www.wired.com/story/the-tragedy-of-losing-your-wikipedia-page/
44•tptacek•3d ago•64 comments
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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/