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Claude Opus 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
1625•HellsMaddy•9h ago•701 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
1079•meetpateltech•9h ago•411 comments

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/its-2026-just-use-postgres
435•turtles3•5h ago•244 comments

My AI Adoption Journey

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
372•anurag•8h ago•99 comments

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
396•modeless•8h ago•378 comments

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/
228•ComputerGuru•1d ago•56 comments

Animated Knots

https://www.animatedknots.com/
70•ostacke•3d ago•10 comments

The RCE that AMD won't fix

https://mrbruh.com/amd/
62•MrBruh•3h ago•29 comments

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
93•doruk101•5h ago•41 comments

MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk

https://www.menuetos.net/
109•pjerem•2d ago•17 comments

Pong Cam – My ESP32S3 Thinks It's a WebCam

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/02/01/pong-cam
9•iamflimflam1•4d ago•0 comments

Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough

https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2026-01-30-from-side-project-to-kickstarter-a-walkthrough.html
30•romes•4d ago•2 comments

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
306•mdp•7h ago•145 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13613973-claude-opus-4-6-extra-usage-promo
116•rob•6h ago•35 comments

C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
31•stickynotememo•2h ago•36 comments

What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)

https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/
37•ryanhn•5h ago•14 comments

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data

https://blog.sturdystatistics.com/posts/hnet_part_I/
36•mkmccjr•10h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Local task classifier and dispatcher on RTX 3080

https://github.com/resilientworkflowsentinel/resilient-workflow-sentinel
8•Shubham_Amb•3h ago•0 comments

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams
314•davidbarker•9h ago•175 comments

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZGrDz7PU
507•cdrnsf•8h ago•348 comments

Show HN: Calfkit – an SDK to build distributed, event-driven AI agents

https://github.com/calf-ai/calfkit-sdk
5•ryanyu•4h ago•0 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
144•wallflower•4d ago•36 comments

What's wrong with bunny hands on dinosaurs? (2018)

https://paleoaerie.org/2018/06/13/whats-wrong-with-bunny-hands-on-dinosaurs/
27•exvi•5d ago•13 comments

Housman's Introductory Lecture (1892)

https://worrydream.com/refs/Housman_1892_-_Introductory_Lecture.html
8•coloneltcb•3d ago•0 comments

Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maihem/8da3fa8b-5544-45de-a99e-888021519758
1•mxrns•10h ago

OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare?

https://innfactory.ai:443/en/blog/openclaw-ai-agent-security/
50•i-blis•4d ago•27 comments

150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/150-mb-minimal-freebsd-installation/
133•vermaden•5d ago•24 comments

Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/1/fela-kuti-becomes-first-african-to-get-grammys-lifetime-a...
166•defrost•4d ago•38 comments

Ardour 9.0

https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html
245•PaulDavisThe1st•8h ago•56 comments

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library

https://github.com/PsiACE/skills
46•recrush•8h ago•4 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•9mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•9mo 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•9mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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/