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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
455•laurentiurad•7h ago•262 comments

What Happened to HackerOne?

https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/
6•hipparchus•19m ago•0 comments

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-to-snowflake-replication-mirroring/
29•craigkerstiens•1h ago•0 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
567•satvikpendem•13h ago•257 comments

Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

https://gitlab.com/Kazade/picophysics
18•klaussilveira•4d ago•6 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media
82•berghoffer•6h ago•45 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

179•david927•9h ago•674 comments

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
30•Thevet•2d ago•2 comments

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spa...
195•jader201•11h ago•148 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com
52•smartmic•5h ago•13 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
192•Klaster_1•12h ago•46 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
82•simonpure•6h ago•42 comments

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS7CxAtV5Ks
37•jackdoe•3d ago•28 comments

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

https://www.dpreview.com/news/panasonic-did-what-apple-sony-and-nikon-couldnt-overturn-a-red-raw-...
39•anigbrowl•2h ago•5 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
221•ike_usawa•15h ago•174 comments

The German Mittelstand

https://kieranvelasquez.substack.com/p/on-the-german-mittelstand
17•Michelangelo11•3d ago•1 comments

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/08/05/touring-the-consensus-six-months-in.html
14•tosh•3d ago•0 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/
114•hexomancer•9h ago•60 comments

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803
86•gregsadetsky•8h ago•59 comments

The Ambition Project

https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-ambition-project
9•herbertl•3h ago•0 comments

ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers

https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers
6•LelouBil•3d ago•1 comments

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364...
383•akyuu•11h ago•318 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
42•tintinnabula•3d ago•22 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32
107•Rochus•13h ago•16 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/
128•Kiboneu•12h ago•85 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
126•oskrim•15h ago•87 comments

To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.html
47•mooreds•4h ago•33 comments

When Compilers Disagree About UTF‑8

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compilers-disagree-about-utf8
37•rbanffy•4d ago•6 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
85•Lammy•16h ago•70 comments

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

https://alphabetsoup.club
26•johnchinjew•6h ago•17 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/