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FFmpeg 9.0

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES
198•gyan•1h ago•32 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x
51•zhoutong•1h ago•5 comments

LLMs reward expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
1010•MaxMussio•14h ago•426 comments

U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-re...
50•tcp_handshaker•26m ago•13 comments

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
79•tosh•5h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet
204•leonickson•18h ago•90 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
554•milkshakes•18h ago•844 comments

Devtools must be open source

https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source
628•bryanmikaelian•21h ago•208 comments

You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

https://pedroth.github.io/?p=post/NoNeedReact
63•pedro_movai•3h ago•47 comments

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawlin...
166•marojejian•5d ago•135 comments

Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/americas/amazon-archaeology-geoglyphs.html
11•wglb•2d ago•6 comments

That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-when-i-failed-the-microsoft-interview/
76•wofo•6d ago•138 comments

Cyberpunk Video Games

https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-video-games/
8•zdw•5d ago•0 comments

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/
499•mpweiher•1d ago•410 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/oEAfzBS-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•4h ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

185•whoishiring•20h ago•172 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
167•pmg101•12h ago•59 comments

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/
226•ascorbic•18h ago•58 comments

Twenty Years of Pandoc

https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
281•fiddlosopher•20h ago•33 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

127•whoishiring•20h ago•295 comments

Beauty in my backyard

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/beauty-in-my-backyard/
29•footest•4d ago•11 comments

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui
301•vblanco•21h ago•87 comments

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

https://hoplite.sh
74•BenceRed•18h ago•60 comments

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse
315•nikolay_sivko•21h ago•67 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c...
168•roryirvine•18h ago•43 comments

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/
111•jandeboevrie•13h ago•64 comments

Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/89
9•bookofjoe•3d ago•1 comments

200 Milliseconds

https://200ms.thenodebook.com
294•dimitarpanov•3d ago•89 comments

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai
362•KolmogorovComp•1d ago•148 comments

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

https://ei3lh.eu/2025/11/20/replacing-the-kobo-libra-h2o-battery/
79•austinallegro•5d ago•31 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/