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Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
349•speckx•4h ago•105 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
108•haunter•2d ago•75 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
102•laurentlb•4d ago•80 comments

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

https://www.tryardent.com/
36•vc289•2h ago•17 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
93•andsoitis•3d ago•39 comments

S-100 Virtual Workbench

https://grantmestrength.github.io/S100/
58•rbanffy•3h ago•13 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
81•rdslw•12h ago•39 comments

Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/altman-forced-to-confront-claims-at-openai-trial-that...
59•Bender•32m ago•18 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html
86•akrylov•5h ago•227 comments

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
148•curiousgal•3d ago•49 comments

Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/
441•jorijn•6h ago•237 comments

GitHub Actions issued GitHub_TOKEN disclosure in GitHub Actions logs

https://github.com/composer/composer/security/advisories/GHSA-f9f8-rm49-7jv2
8•damienwebdev•7h ago•1 comments

The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco

https://asymco.com/2026/05/11/the-great-memory-panic-of-2026/
9•tambourine_man•2d ago•0 comments

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/
112•magni121•2d ago•9 comments

New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510030950.htm
251•HardwareLust•2d ago•111 comments

Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time

https://ossresistance.com/
198•mikemcquaid•4h ago•62 comments

I moved my digital stack to Europe

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/
748•monokai_nl•7h ago•481 comments

Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined

https://dynomight.net/lifespan/
61•surprisetalk•1d ago•39 comments

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
112•jnord•20h ago•59 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter
174•dmitrygr•2d ago•39 comments

Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/substrate/jobs/T2fMBhD-technical-success-manager
1•kunle•7h ago

Telegram Is Gone

https://lazybea.rs/telegram-is-gone/
9•speckx•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
600•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•175 comments

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/
3•speckx•54m ago•0 comments

Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)

https://greem.co.uk/otherbits/jelly.html
58•microsoftedging•4d ago•22 comments

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419
277•matt_d•14h ago•65 comments

Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors

https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-is-the-latest-platform-seemingly-forced-to-ban-adult-content-by-pa...
260•stalfosknight•3h ago•198 comments

Haiku

https://www.haiku-os.org
131•tosh•2h ago•61 comments

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-a...
224•tcp_handshaker•20h ago•194 comments

Web Server on a Nintendo Wii

http://wii.sjmulder.nl/
85•adunk•3d ago•32 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/