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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
1538•ChuckMcM•15h ago•495 comments

Local AI needs to be the norm

https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
1137•cylo•16h ago•486 comments

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html
168•susam•7h ago•67 comments

I'm going back to writing code by hand

https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/
355•dropbox_miner•8h ago•162 comments

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4
310•shintoist•10h ago•94 comments

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/
210•cmbailey•11h ago•108 comments

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs
160•cratermoon•10h ago•40 comments

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
535•miniBill•16h ago•135 comments

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
132•TangerineDream•3h ago•52 comments

Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/accel-tuner.html
13•adm4•3d ago•8 comments

7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)

https://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-language/
49•azhenley•5h ago•11 comments

Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

https://github.com/adamjgmiller/adamsreview
34•adamthegoalie•7h ago•10 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

185•david927•16h ago•674 comments

First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-element-lowered/
97•robin_reala•3d ago•32 comments

How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

https://dunkels.com/adam/claude-user-space-ip-stack-ping/
76•adunk•10h ago•23 comments

dBase: 1979-2026

https://delphinightmares.substack.com/p/dbase-1979-2026
74•deeaceofbase•3d ago•23 comments

Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/bbc-guy-goma-interview.html
117•nxobject•2d ago•28 comments

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
766•andrewstuart•2d ago•535 comments

Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

https://github.com/phel-lang/phel-lang/releases/tag/v0.36.0
31•Chemaclass•3d ago•4 comments

Traces Of Humanity

https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/
157•alex77456•16h ago•23 comments

Seeing Birdsong

https://www.lucioarese.net/seeing-birdsong/
21•carabiner•3d ago•1 comments

Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider

https://www.joachimschipper.nl/Stop%20MITM%20on%20the%20first%20SSH%20connection,%20on%20any%20VP...
117•JoachimSchipper•2d ago•64 comments

The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding

https://thenarwhal.ca/bird-banding-ontario/
54•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

Ice Cream Blending (1965) [pdf]

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/generalInfo/E20-0156-0_Linear_Programming_-_Ice_Cream_Blending.pdf
11•ok123456•2d ago•1 comments

Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/eight-more-8-bit-era-microprocessors
72•klelatti•2d ago•27 comments

The locals don't know

https://www.quarter--mile.com/The-Locals-Dont-Know
163•herbertl•17h ago•127 comments

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
308•ludovicianul•3d ago•182 comments

Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with...
250•lemonberry•12h ago•145 comments

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html
237•MrGilbert•1d ago•119 comments

Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a
118•marc__1•1d ago•74 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/