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France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115584160910016309
27•gabrielgio•19m ago•2 comments

Nano Banana Pro

https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
734•meetpateltech•8h ago•459 comments

Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)

https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Finally_run_Docker_containers_natively_in_Proxmox_9.1.html
75•jandeboevrie•2h ago•18 comments

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/
328•abraham•6h ago•233 comments

New Glenn Update – Blue Origin

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-glenn-upgraded-engines-subcooled-components-drive-enhanced-pe...
59•rbanffy•1h ago•20 comments

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos
65•kasajian•2h ago•24 comments

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

https://githut.info/
30•tonyhb•1h ago•14 comments

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2025/11/19/encryption-in-duckdb
87•chmaynard•3h ago•12 comments

NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]

https://www.ntsb.gov/Documents/Prelimiary%20Report%20DCA26MA024.pdf
108•gregsadetsky•4h ago•131 comments

The Lions Operating System

https://lionsos.org
96•plunderer•4h ago•18 comments

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles

https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
191•ramimac•2d ago•67 comments

Readonly Characters Are a Big Deal

https://matklad.github.io/2025/11/10/readonly-characters.html
10•vinhnx•1w ago•0 comments

Microsoft makes Zork open-source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-i...
348•tabletcorry•5h ago•162 comments

Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files

37•aabhay•5h ago•38 comments

Kagi Assistants

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-assistants
95•ingve•2h ago•50 comments

Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards

https://mobomaps.com
115•tagyro•1d ago•16 comments

Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
216•capgre•11h ago•117 comments

Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board

https://github.com/PegorK/f32
160•pegor•1d ago•21 comments

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/actors
38•ibobev•2h ago•68 comments

Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC

http://geacron.com/home-en/
274•not_knuth•13h ago•124 comments

Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft

https://astral-os.org/posts/2025/10/31/astral-minecraft.html
101•avaliosdev•3d ago•14 comments

Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]

https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf
67•todsacerdoti•8h ago•13 comments

What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)

https://hasbrouck.org/articles/PNR.html
43•rzk•4d ago•12 comments

Go Cryptography State of the Union

https://words.filippo.io/2025-state/
111•ingve•6h ago•46 comments

Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

112•JPLeRouzic•3d ago•69 comments

Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXzUGYIL9M#t=15m19s
77•Archelaos•3d ago•59 comments

ArkA – A minimal open video protocol (first MVP demo)

https://baconpantsuppercut.github.io/arkA/
7•moshebenpeshe•1h ago•3 comments

Red Alert 2 in web browser

https://chronodivide.com/
372•nsoonhui•10h ago•124 comments

Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/mozilla-says-its-finally-done-with-two-faced-onerep/
92•todsacerdoti•4h ago•54 comments

IBM Delivers New Quantum Package

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-11-12-ibm-delivers-new-quantum-processors,-software,-and-algorithm-...
47•donutloop•1w ago•14 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/