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Running local models is good now

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/
225•jfb•1h ago•111 comments

Fable ban was never about a jailbreak

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/the-us-governments-anthropic-models-ban-was-never-about-an-ai-j...
63•amarant•47m ago•16 comments

Mechanical Watch (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
438•razin•4h ago•79 comments

Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small

https://subq.ai/subq-1-1-small-technical-report
41•EDM115•1h ago•18 comments

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/
179•rdmuser•6h ago•59 comments

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
655•apitman•11h ago•324 comments

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/205219/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-p...
85•arnejenssen•1h ago•59 comments

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/
1454•lwhsiao•20h ago•274 comments

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
426•paulmooreparks•11h ago•136 comments

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2026/06/ollie-wagner/
51•nate•2d ago•26 comments

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

https://sighack.com/post/getting-creative-with-perlin-noise-fields
110•0x000xca0xfe•2d ago•19 comments

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

https://www.unicorn-engine.org/
39•tosh•5h ago•10 comments

4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave

https://sabareesh.com/posts/blackwell-waterblock/
33•sabareesh•3d ago•30 comments

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds-freaked-over-fable-5-after-simple-fix-this-c...
407•_tk_•6h ago•229 comments

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/
518•sohkamyung•17h ago•309 comments

But yak shaving is fun

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html
9•parksb•1h ago•0 comments

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

https://tinywind.io
949•tinywind•23h ago•169 comments

The history of butterfly swimming

https://www.swimming.org/sport/history-of-butterfly/
13•mooreds•2d ago•9 comments

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/
258•itsmarcelg•5h ago•206 comments

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415
84•tosh•8h ago•27 comments

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-to-require-id-or-face-scan-before-you-can-make-...
15•speckx•36m ago•5 comments

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

https://trinket.strivemath.org/
87•apulkit6•6h ago•11 comments

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

https://9to5google.com/2026/06/15/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-bloc...
165•speckx•2h ago•102 comments

I Love the Computer

https://michaelenger.com/blog/i-love-the-computer/
285•speckx•20h ago•156 comments

Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-era-soviet-union-pictures-martin-manhoff/
109•Cider9986•2d ago•36 comments

'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientist...
62•defrost•3h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/
119•california-og•11h ago•16 comments

I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrtVGimBYs
149•alexis-d•5d ago•73 comments

CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds

https://bsky.app/profile/stevepeers.bsky.social/post/3mofdspytds2l
12•handelaar•45m ago•3 comments

I Fired Google

https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/i-fired-google/
101•speckx•1h ago•91 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/