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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
342•snvzz•8h ago•163 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

973•basilikum•8h ago•256 comments

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
121•notgloating•7h ago•40 comments

Ruby 4.0.0 Released

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/
129•FBISurveillance•3h ago•13 comments

Asterisk AI Voice Agent

https://github.com/hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent
86•akrulino•7h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
295•medv•11h ago•100 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
243•lioeters•13h ago•69 comments

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
155•adevilinyc•3d ago•52 comments

Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data

https://news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-research-team-digitizes-more-than-100-years-of-canadian-infecti...
103•XzetaU8•6d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python

https://coe.psu.ac.th/ad/explore/
93•Andrew2565•5d ago•5 comments

JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/12/17/jedec-sphbm4/
19•rbanffy•6d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
284•hugs•13h ago•91 comments

Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-search/
47•ColinWright•3d ago•12 comments

Prototaxites

https://astrobiology.com/2025/03/ancient-prototaxites-dont-belong-to-any-living-lineage-possibly-...
30•andsoitis•5d ago•2 comments

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
1374•Aissen•1d ago•517 comments

Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation

https://github.com/sebastienros/comptime
76•bj-rn•4d ago•16 comments

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-d...
468•nickrubin•10h ago•270 comments

The dawn of a world simulator

https://odyssey.ml/the-dawn-of-a-world-simulator
53•olivercameron•4d ago•25 comments

The port I couldn't ship

https://ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship/
107•cjlm•6d ago•64 comments

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

https://qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html
71•ravenical•4d ago•21 comments

I'm returning my Framework 16

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
200•YorickPeterse•18h ago•321 comments

The Next-Gen Mainboard Designed with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS in Mind

https://mirari.vitasys.nl/our-story/
20•todsacerdoti•6h ago•3 comments

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
84•helsinkiandrew•3d ago•32 comments

Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations

https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-historic-private-donations
22•pentagrama•2h ago•1 comments

A faster path to container images in Bazel

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img/
78•malt3•6d ago•40 comments

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/keystone/jobs/J3t9XeM-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•10h ago

Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

https://ivanca.github.io/programming/2025/11/26/microsoft-pls-get-your-tab-to-autocomplete-shit-t...
167•AmbroseBierce•7h ago•97 comments

How I Left YouTube

https://zhach.news/how-i-left-youtube/
122•dhashe•9h ago•160 comments

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

https://blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs/
196•Anon84•21h ago•144 comments

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html
94•todsacerdoti•15h ago•86 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/