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YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/
967•nopg•16h ago•580 comments

A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot

https://iisc.ac.in/a-eureka-machine-that-thinks-like-nature-and-explores-what-ai-cannot/
92•kunalsin9h•5h ago•30 comments

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

https://hallucinate.site
242•stagas•8h ago•98 comments

I analysed 20 years of my chats

https://drobinin.com/posts/am-i-a-bad-friend/
170•valzevul•12h ago•63 comments

AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

https://itsfoss.com/news/amd-vivado-bait-and-switch-on-linux-users/
66•teleforce•1h ago•18 comments

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/
917•simonw•19h ago•1031 comments

AI sticker shock hits corporate America

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs
42•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•11 comments

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html
389•speckx•18h ago•156 comments

Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter

https://github.com/begoon/rapira
35•begoon•3d ago•18 comments

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/what-apple-and-google-are-doing-your-push-notifications
308•iamacyborg•16h ago•310 comments

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/
224•Panda_•16h ago•90 comments

More Whimsical OEIS Sequences

https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2026-05-22-1528/
15•surprisetalk•1d ago•3 comments

The Ask

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-ask/
89•digitallogic•2d ago•52 comments

Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en
15•MrDresden•1h ago•4 comments

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle

https://sverre.me/blog/rust-on-kindle/
176•homarp•16h ago•25 comments

Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin

https://tanin.nanakorn.com/ruby-java-typescrip-claude-docx-plugin/
8•theanonymousone•2d ago•2 comments

Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar

https://spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-grade-lidar
17•marc__1•3d ago•2 comments

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-...
908•HelloUsername•19h ago•435 comments

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html
369•cwwc•12h ago•251 comments

Go: Support for Generic Methods

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273
257•f311a•1d ago•221 comments

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/hqvmyKN-founding-gtm-engineer
1•svee•9h ago

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
313•maxnoe•23h ago•200 comments

Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife

https://github.com/BurntSushi/biff
45•burntsushi•9h ago•25 comments

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950
83•KnuthIsGod•2d ago•77 comments

Warm up your MacBook (2019)

https://z3ugma.github.io/2019/11/18/warm-up-your-macbook/
86•kristianp•15h ago•89 comments

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025)

https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2025/typst-templates-for-pandoc/
86•ankitg12•2d ago•15 comments

Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us

https://retrogamecoders.com/zero-lines-maze/
56•ibobev•1d ago•19 comments

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/google-employee-polymarket-insider-trading.html
211•pseudolus•11h ago•120 comments

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08
132•gmays•19h ago•20 comments

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about
260•nicoloren•1d ago•82 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/