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The Future of CSS

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interop-2027/
331•soheilpro•7h ago•125 comments

Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits

https://permit.petercai.com/
776•pcai•14h ago•369 comments

Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

https://news-web.php.net/php.announce/509
698•xd•12h ago•261 comments

Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/meta-muse-exposes-users-personal-and-business-secrets-wh...
148•gumby•8h ago•53 comments

Voxtral 3

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
649•ilreb•16h ago•164 comments

Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/
192•Bender•10h ago•86 comments

eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
909•galadran•18h ago•392 comments

In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-all-things-are-quantumly-possible-20260826/
87•unprovable•6h ago•44 comments

Good type against all odds

https://unsung.aresluna.org/good-type-against-all-odds/
111•firloop•7h ago•11 comments

Composite objects and C++26 the std:polymorphic type

https://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2026/10/18/composite-objects-and-cpp26-the-stdpolymorphic-type/
23•jandeboevrie•2d ago•19 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-other-epidemic/
178•gaplong•9h ago•133 comments

The Decoherence Trap

https://maevyn.codes/decoherence
16•cassianoleal•2d ago•0 comments

ZX Spectrum Next Laptop

https://www.dorchester3d.com/printing/blog/2020/11/zx-spectrum-next-laptop-version-2
65•utopcell•2d ago•9 comments

Four Years with Decker

https://beyondloom.com/blog/fouryearsdecker.html
32•ibobev•20h ago•4 comments

Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser

https://github.com/timriker/bzo
25•indigodaddy•3h ago•16 comments

Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID

https://nmattia.com/posts/2026-10-19-setting-up-ssh-keys-touch-id/
41•civilchaos•4h ago•28 comments

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
333•ilreb•16h ago•73 comments

Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code

https://www.anthropic.com/research/attack-surface-reduction
31•dnw•5h ago•10 comments

What shall I teach my son?

https://stevekrouse.com/ends
383•Curiositry•15h ago•456 comments

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
249•dhorthy•5d ago•95 comments

Pillowfort Is Closing

https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/8413273
38•BrenBarn•3h ago•21 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
553•evanb•20h ago•272 comments

C# now beats Rust on WASM size

https://github.com/zion-sati/NetWasm
42•sumnole•5h ago•11 comments

Borrow Checking Zero-Cost Cyclic Mutability

https://antelang.org/blog/safe_cyclic_mutability/
31•jfecher•1d ago•2 comments

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
2240•ggcr•23h ago•854 comments

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
381•iamnothere•18h ago•294 comments

Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery
266•speckx•16h ago•156 comments

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port/
404•hnisjafx40•19h ago•197 comments

To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models

https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/economics-decision-models.html
47•pncnmnp•2d ago•2 comments

Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages

https://openai.com/index/low-resource-programming-languages/
77•sumnole•15h ago•81 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/