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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
265•jumploops•4h ago•48 comments

What goes into making an animated film?

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/
37•embedding-shape•2h ago•16 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
68•jruohonen•3h ago•10 comments

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

https://charliegerard.dev/blog/overgrown-extension/
44•speckx•3d ago•12 comments

The State of Context Engineering

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html
23•pchristensen•1h ago•1 comments

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer
335•sungam•5h ago•174 comments

I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/
314•Tomte•4h ago•168 comments

Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/
296•tdeck•4h ago•76 comments

Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens

https://www.wiz.io/blog/gheist-attempted-scaled-abuse-of-stolen-github-tokens-stumbles
39•acossta•3h ago•0 comments

The U.S. Power Grid

https://nomagicpill.site/knowledge/powergrid.html
45•surprisetalk•3d ago•14 comments

Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbia-votes-students-seek-unseat-vucic-snap-election-2026-1...
87•consumer451•1h ago•32 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/
23•endorphine•3h ago•7 comments

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

https://minimaxir.com/2026/10/cheap-llms/
24•minimaxir•1h ago•33 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
726•ltratt•1d ago•670 comments

VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wxttvq9qY
45•zdw•1d ago•11 comments

UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/
27•robin_reala•5h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English

https://huggingface.co/destined/hurston-1
32•Gcarter08•20h ago•10 comments

Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset

https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
91•greenchair•9h ago•34 comments

JetBrains Thinkrail

https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail
134•hmokiguess•6h ago•94 comments

Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again

https://www.getty.edu/news/buddha-head-of-merv-turkmenistan-conservation/
3•laybak•2d ago•0 comments

AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-...
166•romanhn•6h ago•251 comments

Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/recreate-the-apollo-guidance-computer/
34•Brajeshwar•3d ago•2 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
344•gmays•20h ago•125 comments

Root shell on Samsung TV

https://twitter.com/log4j/status/2113014142600953868?s=46
727•testing22321•1d ago•554 comments

Eunice is almost here

https://armincat.com/articles/eunice-is-almost-here
49•armcat•2h ago•42 comments

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurr...
123•_Microft•2h ago•25 comments

Focused Company Operating Principles

https://focused.io/operating-principles
6•mooreds•2h ago•0 comments

All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"

https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics
72•bootlegbilly•4h ago•19 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
554•bobbydigitales•1d ago•345 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
181•bookofjoe•3d ago•49 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/