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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1131•roansh•13h ago•206 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
58•joonehur•3h ago•5 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
206•soheilpro•2d ago•127 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2414•karpathy•1d ago•552 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
59•_Microft•1d ago•17 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
42•anurag•4h ago•13 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

233•LecroJS•9h ago•401 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
121•raphlinus•3d ago•19 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
97•luu•4d ago•16 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
151•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•82 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
196•FabCH•16h ago•46 comments

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly/
37•TMWNN•2d ago•20 comments

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

https://www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis-errors-complicating-games-culture
54•rdmuser•3h ago•28 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
61•stevenalowe•3d ago•32 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
124•Anon84•16h ago•65 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
155•misswaterfairy•5h ago•105 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
258•smilelamp•11h ago•281 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
335•luu•23h ago•257 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
135•croes•1d ago•45 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
433•entryleveljobsc•14h ago•156 comments

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

https://www.jefftk.com/p/bidirectional-charging-during-grid-outages
93•luu•1d ago•141 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
178•headsupernova•3d ago•41 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
145•slater•4d ago•46 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
118•dverlaeckt80•15h ago•51 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
82•kevs3d•1d ago•13 comments

The She-Wolves of Jülich

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich
19•Thevet•1d ago•3 comments

The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/28/us/politics/billionaire-midterms-donors.html
40•doener•5h ago•20 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
153•gmays•13h ago•43 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
68•n_plus_1_acc•18h ago•48 comments

Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)

https://tedium.co/2019/11/21/nonstick-parchment-paper-history/
46•colinprince•2d ago•24 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/