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Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

https://ntsc.rs/
240•gregsadetsky•5h ago•57 comments

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
14•pramodbiligiri•1d ago•2 comments

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abus...
374•speckx•6h ago•140 comments

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/
237•jwilk•10h ago•256 comments

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve
182•losfair•9h ago•45 comments

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739
221•tosh•11h ago•417 comments

Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
41•rohanucla•4h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores

https://github.com/guycipher/keybench
5•alexpadula•1h ago•0 comments

You Can Run

https://magazine.atavist.com/2026/mccann-cocaine-fugitives
95•bryanrasmussen•8h ago•45 comments

Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet?

https://www.eetimes.com/computex-2026-are-we-heading-for-the-agentic-pc-era-yet/
21•rbanffy•4h ago•21 comments

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

https://pokeemerald.com/
265•tripplyons•13h ago•75 comments

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker

https://www.randalolson.com/2026/06/04/recent-grad-unemployment-flip/
140•davidbarker•4h ago•124 comments

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

https://uonr.github.io/poincake/
116•uonr•4d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler

11•bOZbfU4YdRnJQ•1h ago•2 comments

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity...
126•toephu2•1d ago•706 comments

Context Sculpting

https://perceptiontheory.bearblog.dev/context-sculpting/
5•perceptronblues•1h ago•0 comments

PyTorch Custom Operation

https://leimao.github.io/blog/PyTorch-Custom-Operation/
16•eigenBasis•5d ago•3 comments

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying-us-highe...
382•MilnerRoute•6h ago•283 comments

Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec7671
112•speckx•4h ago•111 comments

Benchmarks in Leipzig

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05818
122•root-parent•10h ago•44 comments

The new bibliomaniacs

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-new-bibliomaniacs/
62•RickJWagner•12h ago•51 comments

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

535•andrehacker•2d ago•937 comments

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

https://mashable.com/tech/motorola-wifi-routers-stop-working-motosync-plus-app-down
48•thisislife2•9h ago•17 comments

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
9•kristianp•1d ago•1 comments

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/
73•theanonymousone•10h ago•22 comments

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-u...
1353•maltalex•19h ago•467 comments

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

378•Ekami•22h ago•634 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/WYAcNkX-founding-machine-learning-engineer
1•chitianhao•12h ago

WoofWare.PawPrint, a Deterministic .NET Runtime

https://www.patrickstevens.co.uk/posts/2026-06-04-announcing-woofware-pawprint/
50•Smaug123•2d ago•17 comments

Building Rust Procedural Macros from the Grounds Up

https://www.learnix-os.com/ch02-03-implementing-the-bitfields-proc-macro.html
82•Sagi21805•6d ago•15 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/