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A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/28/tricusp-triangle/
26•tzury•1h ago•8 comments

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precaution...
77•pyrophoenix•4h ago•4 comments

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/
270•tymscar•7h ago•97 comments

Molly: An Improved Signal App

https://molly.im/
226•dtj1123•8h ago•120 comments

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/
86•Kerrick•3h ago•88 comments

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/
227•gfysfm•5h ago•142 comments

So you wanna build a local RAG?

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-rag
200•pedriquepacheco•8h ago•35 comments

A first look at Django's new background tasks

https://roam.be/notes/2025/a-first-look-at-djangos-new-background-tasks/
59•roam•4h ago•8 comments

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)

https://github.com/gvanrossum/abc-unix
72•tony•5h ago•13 comments

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html
150•azinman2•8h ago•40 comments

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset

https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-dataset
319•walterbell•7h ago•129 comments

Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg4y6g74ert
155•nrhrjrjrjtntbt•4h ago•59 comments

Fabric Project

https://github.com/Fabric-Project/Fabric
23•brcmthrowaway•3h ago•0 comments

I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3RNB8eOSx0
34•surprisetalk•6d ago•7 comments

Effective harnesses for long-running agents

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-harnesses-for-long-running-agents
68•diwank•6h ago•18 comments

How to Short the Bubbliest Firms

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/26/how-to-short-the-bubbliest-firms
24•1vuio0pswjnm7•3h ago•28 comments

AltSendme: Another Alternative to MAgic Wormhole?

https://github.com/tonyantony300/alt-sendme
8•nhatcher•4d ago•3 comments

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)

https://blog.plover.com/2016/07/01/#tmpdir
102•todsacerdoti•9h ago•38 comments

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft
253•robtherobber•9h ago•243 comments

Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code

https://github.com/hexagonal-sun/moss
390•hexagonal-sun•6d ago•126 comments

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network

https://github.com/JB-SelfCompany/Tyr
105•basemi•9h ago•21 comments

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

https://oshub.org/projects/retros-32/posts/getting-a-webserver-running
85•joexbayer•8h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ

https://473999.net/pulse
55•473999•7h ago•21 comments

JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-24-json-schema-demystified/
48•navigate8310•8h ago•22 comments

Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques

https://catacombs.space1999.net/main/pguide/upsfx.html
47•exvi•3d ago•20 comments

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism

https://lux-magazine.com/article/privacy-eroticism/
302•eustoria•8h ago•202 comments

Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine

https://blog.atuin.sh/introducing-the-new-runbook-execution-engine/
109•emschwartz•4d ago•22 comments

Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes

https://netlist.io/
35•wafflesfreak•8h ago•21 comments

Lobsters Interview

https://susam.net/my-lobsters-interview.html
72•blenderob•9h ago•50 comments

Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry

https://stohl.substack.com/p/exclusive-credit-report-shows-meta
351•FreeQueso•9h ago•184 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/