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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...
124•DamnInteresting•3h ago•26 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-...
17•zdw•49m ago•1 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/
79•spike021•4h ago•17 comments

Wake up! 16b

https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html
117•MaximilianEmel•4h ago•7 comments

Time to talk about my writerdeck

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
337•hggh•10h ago•195 comments

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html
732•tlhunter•1d ago•1235 comments

On The <dl> (2021)

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
372•ravenical•16h ago•110 comments

My I3-Emacs Integration

https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html
47•nosolace•5h ago•9 comments

My two-part desk setup (2025)

https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
250•James72689•3d ago•146 comments

Judson's Last Ride

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/22/judsons_last_ride_154150.html
75•NaOH•16h ago•3 comments

Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility

https://sales-and-dungeons.app/
68•hyperific•1d ago•21 comments

Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah

https://www.milwaukeemag.com/schlitz-is-gone/
14•NaOH•2d ago•3 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics...
7•anujbans•1h ago•0 comments

The Art of Money Getting

https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/
240•dxs•16h ago•142 comments

Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem

https://mitander.xyz/posts/buildcraft-is-a-compiler-problem/
6•mitander•1d ago•0 comments

Byrne's Euclid

https://www.c82.net/euclid/
30•layer8•6h ago•10 comments

New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-...
58•sohkamyung•3d ago•7 comments

Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefinder/
126•evakhoury•1d ago•27 comments

.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-dotnet-11-preview-2-dotnet-gets-union-types/
172•ingve•1d ago•151 comments

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
92•elpocko•12h ago•19 comments

80386 microcode disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
234•nand2mario•16h ago•46 comments

Revised^7 Report on Scheme, Large: Procedural Fascicle Draft is now public

https://r7rs.org/large/fascicles/proc/
18•pmcgoron•3d ago•4 comments

Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2qmdvmq6o
40•baal80spam•8h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs

https://uvic-aurora.github.io/acav-manual/index.html
25•leomicv•2d ago•2 comments

-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code

https://olano.dev/blog/dangerously-skip/
121•fagnerbrack•19h ago•125 comments

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-...
141•cf100clunk•4d ago•159 comments

PHP's Oddities

https://flowtwo.io/post/php%27s-oddities
108•thejoeflow•4d ago•128 comments

Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html
159•tosh•17h ago•59 comments

API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/declarative-partial-updates
26•theanonymousone•4h ago•12 comments

ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards-25-million-iris-scanning
116•cdrnsf•5h ago•32 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/