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Google releases Gemma 4 open models

https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
1448•jeffmcjunkin•17h ago•405 comments

ESP32-S31: 320MHz 2C RV32IMAFCP+CLIC, 512KB SRAM, GbE, 802.11ax, 61 GPIO

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_S31_Release
30•topspin•4d ago•10 comments

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
754•axelriet•17h ago•299 comments

The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain

https://www.weareinquisitive.com/news/hidden-in-the-shadow
43•carlosjobim•4d ago•1 comments

Tailscale's new macOS home

https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape
450•tosh•14h ago•229 comments

Cursor 3

https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3
405•adamfeldman•15h ago•323 comments

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/
245•1659447091•1d ago•103 comments

C89cc.sh – standalone C89/ELF64 compiler in pure portable shell

https://gist.github.com/alganet/2b89c4368f8d23d033961d8a3deb5c19
121•gaigalas•2d ago•33 comments

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
519•pretext•18h ago•185 comments

Working on Products People Hate

https://www.seangoedecke.com/working-on-products-people-hate/
23•herbertl•4d ago•22 comments

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)

https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-minute-mba.html
250•sedev•15h ago•105 comments

Vector Meson Dominance

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/vector-meson-dominance/
31•chmaynard•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/29/home-maker/
54•sthottingal•5d ago•31 comments

LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

https://browsergate.eu/
1726•digitalWestie•20h ago•705 comments

Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/
105•codingmoh•10h ago•36 comments

Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation

https://readonlymemo.com/rexglue-xbox-360-recompilation-interview/
111•tetrisgm•4d ago•24 comments

George Goble has died

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wlfi/name/george-goble-obituary?id=61144779
147•finaard•15h ago•31 comments

Maze Algorithms (1997)

https://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm
52•marukodo•2d ago•15 comments

A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)

https://emschwartz.me/a-rave-review-of-superpowers-for-claude-code/
15•emschwartz•5h ago•1 comments

The Joy of Numbered Streets

https://humantransit.org/2026/03/the-joy-of-numbered-streets-or-call-it-39th-avenue.html
43•dmit•6d ago•29 comments

A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s

https://www.bi6.us/CO/MG.HTML
60•OhMeadhbh•10h ago•18 comments

OpenAI Acquires TBPN

https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/
209•surprisetalk•15h ago•164 comments

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket
286•lode•21h ago•125 comments

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Database Internal Engineers (Rust)

https://paradedb.notion.site/
1•philippemnoel•11h ago

JSON Canvas Spec (2024)

https://jsoncanvas.org/spec/1.0/
108•tobr•3d ago•32 comments

New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/new-rowhammer-attacks-give-complete-control-of-machines-...
7•01-_-•1h ago•0 comments

Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code

https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Memo/
50•notem•11h ago•24 comments

Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

https://bsky.app/profile/nikigrayson.com/post/3miik2wzosk25
420•mooreds•18h ago•310 comments

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/
844•novaRom•22h ago•406 comments

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU

https://lemonade-server.ai
517•AbuAssar•22h ago•107 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•11mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•11mo 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•11mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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/