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Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
916•ilreb•8h ago•490 comments

No Man Is an Island

https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island
83•zetalyrae•1h ago•32 comments

Triple-A Minesweeper

https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
320•robin_reala•5h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

https://carrierexplode.com/
120•simplyalec•2h ago•13 comments

Our $445M Series D

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d
512•ahlCVA•7h ago•213 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/ideas-arent-getting-harder-to-find
54•rafaelc•2h ago•18 comments

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
155•tosh•4h ago•130 comments

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives/
65•piratebroadcast•9h ago•31 comments

Sorry, I'm in a meeting

https://iminafleeting.com/
643•splintersio•11h ago•211 comments

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
345•franze•10h ago•145 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/
400•Anon84•10h ago•201 comments

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k/executive
92•gslin•2h ago•32 comments

A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

https://blog.torproject.org/on-tor-relationship-with-mullvad/
71•runtimewire•5h ago•134 comments

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-and-gromit-90-alone
97•vinhnx•7h ago•14 comments

The reciprocal sum of the prime-prefix-free numbers converges [pdf]

https://jdb19937.github.io/prime-prefix-free/ppf.pdf
9•jdb1729•4d ago•11 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
1051•jonotime•1d ago•929 comments

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

https://commandline.microsoft.com/microsoft-decision-1-model-foundry/
61•lisajaloza•2h ago•24 comments

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/14/almost-like-lake-como-germany-transforms-former-coal-mines-in...
161•ohjeez•6h ago•86 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
906•gmays•1d ago•176 comments

You might want to try being less creative

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/you-might-want-to-try-being-less
41•bryantwolf•2h ago•23 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
706•Michelangelo11•1d ago•279 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/pyramid-jit
37•schopra909•3d ago•14 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-...
275•trakkstar•11h ago•177 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
303•sohkamyung•17h ago•248 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc
160•nreece•15h ago•77 comments

Programming Isn't Special

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
145•ingve•13h ago•160 comments

Once: Cache CLI commands

https://github.com/alex0ptr/once
82•baquero•11h ago•37 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
536•kbyatnal•1d ago•199 comments

Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?

https://mtlynch.io/why-are-coding-agents-so-dumb/
30•mtlynch•6h ago•5 comments

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

https://readrare.com/
11•miletus•3h ago•3 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/