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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
96•solarist•1h ago•16 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
469•Philpax•15h ago•148 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
216•ishan0102•13h ago•77 comments

Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/accountability-and-joy/
45•luu•2d ago•10 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
184•ibobev•12h ago•109 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
208•E-Reverance•13h ago•51 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
367•outlier99•14h ago•245 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
556•tosh•1d ago•249 comments

Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/
56•thepipetogrep•7h ago•13 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
234•jgx0•12h ago•154 comments

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
86•leecoursey•2d ago•61 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
123•walrus01•2d ago•65 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
217•vinhnx•2d ago•54 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
16•ingve•2h ago•1 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
61•stratts•12h ago•37 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
22•aw1621107•1d ago•1 comments

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
203•misterchocolat•8h ago•243 comments

Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

https://www.stelabouras.com/blog/entombed-raycaster/
26•stelabouras•2d ago•5 comments

Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales

https://blue-continuum.com/the-man-who-listens-to-whales
30•dnetesn•2d ago•19 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
222•farslan•20h ago•97 comments

Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed

https://fog-bank.org/net
14•rdmuser•2d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

https://github.com/ahmetomerv/photoc
41•ahmetomer•2d ago•5 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
47•networked•11h ago•21 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
64•ibobev•12h ago•20 comments

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
456•rdmuser•12h ago•330 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
66•greyface-•1d ago•7 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
262•maguay•1d ago•226 comments

ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj62ylzpr6d3o
7•helsinkiandrew•51m ago•0 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
160•Vosporos•20h ago•45 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
194•0xedb•1d ago•126 comments
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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/