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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
534•ChuckMcM•3h ago•181 comments

Local AI needs to be the norm

https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
188•cylo•4h ago•96 comments

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
256•miniBill•3h ago•68 comments

Traces Of Humanity

https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/
91•alex77456•4h ago•13 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

60•david927•3h ago•230 comments

YC's Biggest Scandals

https://ycombinator.fyi/
142•laserduck•4h ago•49 comments

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
575•andrewstuart•1d ago•429 comments

Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes

https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-architecture-delivers-5x-faster-postgres-writes
75•sp_from_db•2d ago•20 comments

Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider

https://www.joachimschipper.nl/Stop%20MITM%20on%20the%20first%20SSH%20connection,%20on%20any%20VP...
44•JoachimSchipper•2d ago•22 comments

Eight More 8-bit Era Microprocessors (2024)

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/eight-more-8-bit-era-microprocessors
25•klelatti•2d ago•6 comments

Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-tells-3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-to-go-bl...
378•iancmceachern•6h ago•209 comments

What's a mathematician to do? (2010)

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do
126•ipnon•10h ago•65 comments

Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a
66•marc__1•1d ago•50 comments

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
246•ludovicianul•3d ago•161 comments

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

https://theindex.fyi
67•rocketpastsix•8h ago•21 comments

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/
288•jandeboevrie•10h ago•98 comments

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html
311•cainxinth•3d ago•129 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
372•imtomt•18h ago•201 comments

Think Linear Algebra (2023)

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html
134•tamnd•11h ago•15 comments

Shunting-Yard Animation

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/shunting-yard-animation/
44•s1291•6h ago•14 comments

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html
155•MrGilbert•15h ago•96 comments

The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding

https://thenarwhal.ca/bird-banding-ontario/
4•bookofjoe•2d ago•0 comments

SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-data-centre-one-million-satellites-9.7117772
25•billybuckwheat•1h ago•27 comments

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/
288•dr_kiszonka•3d ago•139 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q
1•ukd1•9h ago

I’ve banned query strings

https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
537•susam•1d ago•276 comments

The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/
74•surprisetalk•3d ago•17 comments

We see something that works, and then we understand it

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
188•surprisetalk•4d ago•76 comments

Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets

https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes
107•marc__1•4h ago•89 comments

Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features
79•birdculture•6h ago•38 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/