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Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-x
253•alkyon•23h ago•51 comments

"I'm Not Going to Have Blood on My Hands"

https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/nicole-noren-espn-producer-quit-protest-sports-betting-gambling...
48•danso•3d ago•14 comments

Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-nort...
139•sohkamyung•23h ago•41 comments

Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana

https://furifont.antfu.me/
222•plaguna•2d ago•45 comments

The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results

https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator
122•antirez•2d ago•20 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
650•theykk•14h ago•549 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/
174•dchest•7h ago•19 comments

Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
237•crescit_eundo•9h ago•64 comments

Types of types: Haskell's Kind system

https://thunk.blog/posts/types-of-types-haskell-kind-system/
19•Thom2503•3d ago•9 comments

Source code of the Estonian online voting system

https://github.com/valimised/ivxv
131•theanonymousone•20h ago•108 comments

Gold is now the top U.S. export

https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export
183•iamnothere•6h ago•104 comments

JDK 28

https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/28/
13•ejboy•1h ago•1 comments

Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2026/microsoft-cmu-praise
50•azhenley•4h ago•54 comments

Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not

https://doctor-seo.net/en/blog/news/chrome-edge-removing-xslt/
58•croes•3h ago•59 comments

Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer

https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/
64•celphase•9h ago•19 comments

Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921
46•AIorNot•5h ago•24 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/
441•xbmcuser•9h ago•285 comments

I Became a Citizen of Japan

https://www.derekwessman.com/blog-1/natural
119•luu•5h ago•40 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Enterprise AES and Senior Engineers

https://www.artie.com/careers
1•j-cheong•6h ago

You could have invented transformers from memory

https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/
479•speckx•1d ago•112 comments

Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

https://courk.cc/rp2350-challenge-laser
33•gregsadetsky•2d ago•5 comments

Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/
120•farlight•6h ago•95 comments

OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111516673953935833
665•pranshuchittora•5h ago•112 comments

Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010

http://vintagecassettes.com/
43•austinallegro•3d ago•6 comments

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/
70•pmoriarty•20h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang

https://github.com/Kapendev/parin
37•Kapendev•1d ago•6 comments

Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/10/12/around-the-world-34-a-pretty-sky/
119•ibobev•1d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim
108•joakimeriksson•9h ago•11 comments

The future of programming (1982)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358453.358459
47•vismit2000•11h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

https://llmspeed.dev/
234•albinstman•18h ago•75 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/