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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
451•pseudolus•3h ago•314 comments

Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastru...
36•zenincognito•45m ago•3 comments

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/linux-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop
356•novaRom•7h ago•176 comments

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binanc...
155•smalltech•1h ago•86 comments

Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/verification-is-not-knowledge
148•ersinesen•6h ago•90 comments

Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4
184•kevcampb•5h ago•92 comments

Evergreen: A Provably Safe Systems Language

https://evergreenlang.net
5•jordan_bonecut•21m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

345•jameslk•5h ago•93 comments

Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet

https://www.getgrist.com/blog/running-totals-you-dont-have-to-chase/
8•reedciccio•25m ago•1 comments

Jelly Sheet

https://mrdoob.github.io/codevember-2026/01/
356•memalign•12h ago•91 comments

Debian apt security update (man-in-the-middle)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2026/msg00526.html?pow_referer=
32•SG-•42m ago•3 comments

Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole

https://streamvessel.com/blog/mcp-trusted-redirect-uris
3•isalexlog•15m ago•0 comments

Kitty 0.50

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#
272•porridgeraisin•6h ago•172 comments

Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository

https://github.com/peterretief/codemap
3•peter_retief•28m ago•0 comments

Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/
900•xx_ns•1d ago•337 comments

Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot

https://neufangled.com/
707•nharada•22h ago•217 comments

US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2026/us-voters-roundly-reject-data-centers-in-ballot-measures
182•justonepost2•1h ago•273 comments

Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/02/food/coffee-machine-plastic-free
11•thunderbong•26m ago•5 comments

Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxaRn8kX2eI
29•musha68k•1h ago•1 comments

The lost malloc()

https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/
109•matt_d•8h ago•42 comments

The Internals of PostgreSQL

https://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html
331•ibobev•17h ago•24 comments

Mocktastic: A Meshtastic Node on Arduino

https://github.com/Vapmuz/Mocktastic
6•kimi•1h ago•0 comments

Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synaptics-Blocks-Vino-Driver
98•snvzz•4h ago•34 comments

Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

https://hackertv.org
409•dsalzman•1d ago•76 comments

Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active

https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/giant-canyon-mars-still-tectonically-active-today
126•gmays•14h ago•27 comments

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archivin...
517•bookofjoe•2d ago•220 comments

Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie

https://uncracked.city
101•passkey1510•18h ago•51 comments

Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/03/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-better-off-without-ai
245•alkyon•5h ago•198 comments

Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2026/study-reveals-distinct-cellular-and-genet...
105•gmays•12h ago•43 comments

Pierre Computer is being acquired by OpenAI

https://twitter.com/pierrecomputer/status/2117999036175188183
12•itunpredictable•25m ago•3 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/