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Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opinion-local-journalism-is-how-democracy-shows-up-close-to...
64•mooreds•1h ago•12 comments

Apple Creator Studio

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-o...
94•lemonlime227•34m ago•90 comments

Is beef tallow making a comeback?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/dining/beef-tallow-food-pyramid-rfk-jr.html
39•gjkood•2d ago•106 comments

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
1093•adocomplete•19h ago•482 comments

Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams

https://snackbase.dev
19•lalitgehani•2h ago•0 comments

Why Stoicism is one of the best mind hacks ever devised

https://aeon.co/essays/why-stoicism-is-one-of-the-best-mind-hacks-ever-devised
28•suioir•37m ago•11 comments

Text-based web browsers

https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/
167•pabs3•9h ago•67 comments

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
663•admp•22h ago•274 comments

Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P

https://theushen.medium.com/designing-an-ipv6-native-p2p-transport-lessons-from-building-i6p-b8ca...
42•TheusHen•3d ago•34 comments

Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-open-source-ai-strategy/
61•nalinidash•2h ago•37 comments

FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/
108•maelito•5h ago•64 comments

Postal Arbitrage

https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
462•The28thDuck•21h ago•239 comments

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
691•mchro•1d ago•393 comments

Git Rebase for the Terrified

https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/
67•aaronbrethorst•5d ago•72 comments

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLhHDcY3I
281•cjaackie•18h ago•245 comments

The UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/11/how-the-uk-is-shaping-a-future-of-precrime-and-dissent-mana...
114•robtherobber•2h ago•86 comments

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

https://cy.md/opencode-rce/
378•CyberShadow•1d ago•122 comments

Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w
138•Growtika•5d ago•66 comments

Date is out, Temporal is in

https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/
419•alexanderameye•23h ago•174 comments

NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/nasa-topples-towers-used-to-test-saturn-rockets-space-shuttle/
15•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/cray.cray1.1977.102638650.pdf
112•LordGrey•3d ago•63 comments

Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

https://www.bellard.org/ts_zip/
193•everlier•18h ago•79 comments

LLVM: The bad parts

https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
361•vitaut•1d ago•74 comments

Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014)

https://tinyhack.com/2014/03/12/implementing-a-web-server-in-a-single-printf-call/
66•nateb2022•4d ago•7 comments

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
936•stygiansonic•23h ago•573 comments

Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/introducing-robotopia-a-3d-first
68•psawaya•4d ago•31 comments

Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7184969
223•thunderbong•8h ago•69 comments

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic
335•codesparkle•1d ago•221 comments

Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

https://www.trylad.com
176•WillNickols•21h ago•95 comments

Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25759181.network-scottish-x-accounts-go-dark-amid-iran-blackout/
232•TiredOfLife•3h ago•180 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/