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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
409•raahelb•5h ago•445 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
30•aaronday•44m ago•10 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
79•Rapzid•2h ago•59 comments

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary – Cloudflare Blog

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/
19•thisisfatih•1h ago•2 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
363•avidly•8h ago•84 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
34•victormustar•4h ago•2 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
500•geox•6h ago•321 comments

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/
32•surprisetalk•1d ago•9 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/
98•tybulewicz•5h ago•40 comments

The Curious Power of Punctuation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/on-the-mark-louis-menand-book-review
13•pepys•1d ago•2 comments

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5
7•Retro_Dev•1h ago•4 comments

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/jev-in-25-lines/
612•bashbjorn•15h ago•194 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/
232•swolpers•7h ago•116 comments

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol
110•lostmsu•8h ago•43 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
217•teoruiz•14h ago•174 comments

Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams

https://atlas-sysdes.vercel.app/
28•mertkahyaoglu•1d ago•17 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
28•yarapavan•5h ago•7 comments

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform
167•ltononro•9h ago•102 comments

I don't want the details

https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/
334•mooreds•10h ago•189 comments

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/swap-zram-zswap-and-hibernate-on-nixos/
23•speckx•5h ago•4 comments

Z80 REPL (2018)

https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html
139•adunk•12h ago•18 comments

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/
437•pszypowicz•11h ago•242 comments

Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

https://www.forensicdbg.com
18•Loren_SL•4h ago•2 comments

Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin

https://robertmay.photography/journal/bwbach-my-guardian-goblin
7•robotmay•1d ago•5 comments

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/
135•matthieu_bl•3h ago•90 comments

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534899123
7•Thevet•2d ago•0 comments

QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer

https://questdb.com/careers/pre-sales-engineer-north-america/
1•nhourcard•11h ago

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09
206•rubatrejo•6h ago•276 comments

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c32l8y8kygdvo
126•thm•5h ago•174 comments

Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/seattle-city-council-votes-to-ban-surveillance...
275•ortusdux•9h ago•167 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/