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394•pavelai•6h ago•182 comments

Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership

https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
47•ibobev•1h ago•14 comments

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
142•todsacerdoti•3h ago•47 comments

Functional Quadtrees

https://lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/functional-quadtree-clojure
41•lbj•2h ago•15 comments

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

https://pglite.dev/
285•dsego•4h ago•66 comments

A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251130205421.htm
17•ashishgupta2209•3d ago•2 comments

Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years

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36•teleforce•3h ago•14 comments

Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

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41•amalinovic•4h ago•3 comments

Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format

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40•daninet•4d ago•13 comments

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

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112•sethops1•2h ago•98 comments

Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust

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73•janicerk•2d ago•26 comments

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

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247•keithoffer•5h ago•88 comments

Contextualization Machines

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Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows

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47•pseudolus•1h ago•6 comments

Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

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214•rgun•9h ago•99 comments

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

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663•simlevesque•21h ago•328 comments

Interop and MathML Core

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29•todsacerdoti•3d ago•2 comments

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

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87•donohoe•3h ago•25 comments

Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

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412•zekrioca•15h ago•309 comments

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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481•nooks•21h ago•179 comments

Saturn (YC S24) Is Hiring Senior AI Engineer

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1•etticat•8h ago

Elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
310•50kIters•6h ago•331 comments

Ghostty is now non-profit

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1211•vrnvu•20h ago•258 comments

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

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306•mhashemi•18h ago•101 comments

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

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864•evolve2k•1d ago•744 comments

All the Way Down

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50•surprisetalk•5d ago•17 comments

Programming peaked

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120•Antibabelic•5h ago•118 comments

Why WinQuake exists and how it works

https://fabiensanglard.net/winquake/index.html
125•wicket•13h ago•23 comments

Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server

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111•doener•15h ago•35 comments

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

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749•bearsyankees•21h ago•257 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/