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Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
195•jekude•6h ago•56 comments

Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai...
804•helsinkiandrew•15h ago•686 comments

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

https://fabiensanglard.net/curse/
57•blfr•2d ago•6 comments

Ted Nyman – High Performance Git

https://gitperf.com/
56•gnabgib•4h ago•10 comments

Integrated by Design

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/integrated-by-design-launch
86•vermaden•5h ago•29 comments

Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests

https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/unprecedented-sms-blaster-arrests/
129•gnabgib•8h ago•57 comments

LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D reconstruction with geometric context transformer

https://technology.robbyant.com/lingbot-map
7•nateb2022•1h ago•1 comments

Meetings are forcing functions

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3734
85•zdw•2d ago•39 comments

How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way

https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-what-a-decoupling-capacitor
45•actinium226•2d ago•13 comments

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026
477•Oravys•18h ago•175 comments

Is my blue your blue?

https://ismy.blue/
406•theogravity•8h ago•284 comments

The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/quiet-resurgence-of-rf-engineering/
161•merlinq•2d ago•85 comments

Men who stare at walls

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/
492•aselimov3•17h ago•219 comments

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino
185•Hanqaqa•11h ago•31 comments

Show HN: AgentSwift – Open-source iOS builder agent

https://github.com/hpennington/agentswift
20•hpen•3h ago•5 comments

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx
6•luu•2d ago•0 comments

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/
215•pvtmert•13h ago•189 comments

Radar Laboratory – Interactive Radar Phenomenology

https://radarlaboratory.com/
42•jonbaer•2d ago•1 comments

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-svg-sanitization/
198•varun_ch•13h ago•82 comments

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html
336•yakkomajuri•17h ago•224 comments

Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-...
86•1659447091•2d ago•17 comments

Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico

https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi
271•BoingBoomTschak•2d ago•77 comments

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatmen...
226•JeanKage•18h ago•84 comments

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/
589•frizlab•12h ago•438 comments

“Why not just use Lean?”

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html
265•ibobev•14h ago•186 comments

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

https://zsnes.com/
258•haunter•11h ago•71 comments

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
403•c0l0•17h ago•217 comments

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

https://github.com/dirac-run/dirac
315•GodelNumbering•16h ago•119 comments

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

https://quarkdown.com/
277•amai•19h ago•99 comments

The Secret Life of NaN (2018)

https://anniecherkaev.com/the-secret-life-of-nan
39•prakashqwerty•1d ago•21 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/