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iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
1107•thecosmicfrog•12h ago•1950 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/
196•dmitrybrant•4h ago•85 comments

Version Control Second Coming

https://psantosl.github.io/posts/version-control-second-coming/
51•bananaboy•2d ago•19 comments

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117244102901892965
36•yurivish•2h ago•4 comments

ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

https://geo-tp.github.io/ESP32-Bit-Pirate/
63•geotp•3d ago•9 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
984•EdwinHoksberg•17h ago•384 comments

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Pacific_striped_octopus
10•olalonde•1d ago•1 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
476•evakhoury•1d ago•259 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
309•bookofjoe•13h ago•518 comments

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes

https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/
43•Anon84•4h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast

https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/
65•thomasahle•21h ago•22 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
434•awad•12h ago•335 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
351•Limb•14h ago•362 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
341•meetpateltech•13h ago•359 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
390•ModelForge•15h ago•132 comments

Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/
189•LeoPanthera•6h ago•154 comments

A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a-stupid-idea-for-ai-alignment-we-came-up-with-by-lookin...
51•cpeterso•4h ago•30 comments

Factoring RSA 260

https://cognition.com/blog/factoring-rsa-260
78•samyok•10h ago•10 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
201•wsxiaoys•13h ago•79 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
428•willwhitedc•18h ago•93 comments

OpenAI might have stolen another major proof

https://twitter.com/ValerioCapraro/status/2097791836269977996
94•tamnd•2h ago•18 comments

Apple Watch Series 12

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-...
247•Lealen•12h ago•295 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

https://gizmodo.com/aardman-is-selling-its-original-movie-puppets-this-month-2000807968
27•Gaishan•3d ago•7 comments

Rivian's gambit for full autonomy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving
64•1970-01-01•1d ago•78 comments

GNU Radio in the browser

https://gnuradioworld.com/
192•kristianpaul•14h ago•25 comments

OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out

https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117237555794407063
32•doener•1h ago•5 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
390•xlii•18h ago•235 comments

The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

https://www.not-ship.com/united-nations-map/
76•speckx•14h ago•138 comments

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html
169•marklit•14h ago•29 comments

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
184•davidfischer•14h ago•59 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/