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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
407•snehesht•6h ago•215 comments

A map of every lighthouse

https://mapped.earth/lighthouses/world
101•karakoram•2d ago•48 comments

'Neanderthals Among Us' review

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/neanderthals-among-us-peter-sahlins-review
15•pepys•22h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

https://niklasroy.com/gtc/
133•r0r0•2d ago•16 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

741•paveworld•18h ago•153 comments

Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle

https://blog.janestreet.com/asic-puzzle-results/
13•eru•2d ago•0 comments

A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo

https://seriot.ch/computation/terminfo/
21•beefburger•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS

https://github.com/allenv0/SCM
97•allenleee•9h ago•52 comments

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
251•vinhnx•15h ago•249 comments

Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/09/building-a-rag-pipeline-for-semantic-code-search-a-develope...
20•saikatsg•1h ago•3 comments

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next

https://gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/
89•rdmuser•10h ago•16 comments

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
426•speckx•1d ago•80 comments

The Heilbronn Problem

https://math.tejstead.com/heilbronn/
49•tejstead•1d ago•8 comments

Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

https://github.com/PowderworksCode/headstart
101•knuckleheads•12h ago•26 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
313•kmeh•1d ago•192 comments

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
289•CosmoWenman•1d ago•159 comments

Magic Switch: Share Apple Magic keyboard/track-pad/mouse between two Macs

https://joshua.hu/magic-switch-easily-switch-magic-keyboard-trackpad-mouse-between-mac-macbook-macos
69•chanux•2d ago•35 comments

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-s...
332•Anon84•1d ago•598 comments

What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/09/whats-the-future-for-pure-math-research-in-the-age-of...
46•6bitquant•11h ago•33 comments

L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages

https://blog.plover.com/2026/09/25/
11•surprisetalk•2d ago•3 comments

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
343•trwhite•1d ago•85 comments

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-do...
257•gscott•3d ago•58 comments

Blindsight (Watts Novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
53•mooreds•2h ago•42 comments

I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_Uz...
428•Brajeshwar•1d ago•706 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/
216•citelao•22h ago•103 comments

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/
205•geoffbp•23h ago•172 comments

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
572•elffjs•19h ago•290 comments

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

https://devforum.play.date/t/dirty-optimization-secrets-c-for-playdate/23011
66•ibobev•2d ago•7 comments

So you think you could be an electrician?

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician
420•zdw•4d ago•364 comments

What Meta got right with Muse

https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse
120•young_mete•1d ago•160 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/