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https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-honest.html
807•keepamovin•2h ago•179 comments

Cursor Acquires Graphite

https://graphite.com/blog/graphite-joins-cursor
72•timvdalen•1h ago•30 comments

Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
87•ibobev•1h ago•12 comments

GotaTun -- Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/announcing-gotatun-the-future-of-wireguard-at-mullvad-vpn
358•km•5h ago•79 comments

I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky

https://spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have-to-give-fortnite-my-passport-to-use-bluesky
29•malshe•30m ago•12 comments

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks

https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?lang...
320•captn3m0•7h ago•172 comments

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop
55•mikece•2h ago•19 comments

Believe the Checkbook

https://robertgreiner.com/believe-the-checkbook/
17•rg81•1h ago•4 comments

TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outco...
74•lateforwork•58m ago•37 comments

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
1893•Kerrick•1d ago•230 comments

Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails

https://github.com/envirobly/stepped
61•klevo•5d ago•9 comments

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying
1091•tortilla•2d ago•546 comments

Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes

https://lorendb.dev/posts/getting-bitten-by-poor-naming-schemes/
230•LorenDB•11h ago•119 comments

We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28
1032•hackermondev•22h ago•376 comments

AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details

https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd-officially-confirms-fresh-next-gen-zen-6-cpu-details/
52•akyuu•2h ago•35 comments

1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5
536•rbanffy•18h ago•185 comments

Building a Transparent Keyserver

https://words.filippo.io/keyserver-tlog/
27•noident•2h ago•7 comments

How to think about durable execution

https://hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution
65•abelanger•1w ago•20 comments

Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels

https://noclip.website/
362•ivmoreau•14h ago•46 comments

Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2469780/episodes/18340142-17-does-my-key-fob-have-more-computing-power...
17•jammcq•5d ago•9 comments

From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4

https://sdiehl.github.io/zero-to-qed/01_introduction.html
117•rwosync•5d ago•14 comments

History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
653•iamwil•18h ago•315 comments

GPT-5.2-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/
545•meetpateltech•22h ago•299 comments

Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
69•linkdd•5d ago•24 comments

Prepare for That Stupid World

https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html
5•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens

https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching/
217•samwho•3d ago•47 comments

Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device

https://www.atredis.com/blog/2025/11/20/designing-a-passive-lidar-detection-sensor
46•speckx•3d ago•4 comments

Graphite Is Joining Cursor

https://cursor.com/blog/graphite
51•fosterfriends•1h ago•20 comments

How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/
417•artninja1988•22h ago•505 comments

Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code

https://pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248
138•deevus•13h ago•25 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•8mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•8mo 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•8mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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/