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Jira Is Turing-Complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html
56•vinhnx•2h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1
293•pantelisk•15h ago•61 comments

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnea(2006)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/
46•kelseyfrog•2d ago•12 comments

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
518•Alifatisk•17h ago•217 comments

Migrating from Go to Rust

https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
215•jabits•12h ago•208 comments

I love my Bluetooth keyboard

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/i-love-my-bluetooth-keyboard/
10•evakhoury•2d ago•2 comments

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/
61•michaelsbradley•1d ago•13 comments

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

https://www.wired.com/story/a-fundamental-principle-of-aeronautical-engineering-has-been-overturned/
135•littlexsparkee•11h ago•68 comments

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D301917
52•luu•2d ago•19 comments

C constructs that still don't work in C++

https://lospino.so/blog/c-constructs-that-still-dont-work-in-cpp/
32•jalospinoso•3d ago•20 comments

The Eternal Sloptember

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
235•razin•2h ago•155 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
499•dougdude3339•3d ago•87 comments

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445
215•wek•17h ago•115 comments

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-component-cost-shares
364•intelkishan•14h ago•371 comments

Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/research/200-year-old-puzzle-tobacco-plants-nico...
78•sohkamyung•2d ago•22 comments

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-disco...
459•DamnInteresting•1d ago•158 comments

Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/adafruit/
152•mch82•3d ago•49 comments

Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

https://www.clarityboss.com/blog/go-http2-cleartext-h2c-cloud-run
77•dan_sbl•5d ago•8 comments

Mastering Dyalog APL

https://mastering.dyalog.com/README.html
136•tosh•18h ago•36 comments

Greg Brockman interview [video]

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
193•prakashqwerty•22h ago•197 comments

Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust

https://tritium.legal/blog/noroboto
71•piker•2d ago•30 comments

Building Pi with Pi

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/
62•mplanchard•13h ago•21 comments

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/
281•spike021•1d ago•154 comments

Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression

https://apple.github.io/ml-pico/
108•ksec•18h ago•33 comments

Childhood Computing

https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html
187•blenderob•18h ago•93 comments

Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering

https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/05/getting-an-old-computer-online-with-android-ethernet-tethering/
51•speckx•3d ago•21 comments

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-...
313•zdw•1d ago•190 comments

Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/companies-graph-of-algorithms
16•samuel246•2h ago•6 comments

CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices

https://www.cbp.gov/document/directives/cbp-directive-no-3340-049b-border-search-electronic-devices
144•Ember_Wipe•11h ago•103 comments

I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

https://www.sicpers.info/2026/05/i-keep-bouncing-off-the-scheme-language/
142•ingve•2d ago•61 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/