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Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html
110•anitil•2h ago•40 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
17•moultano•37m ago•2 comments

GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1898•kibae•17h ago•1715 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1944•pavel_lishin•21h ago•482 comments

Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

https://carbonawarepricing.com/
59•High-Five•4h ago•35 comments

Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building

https://www.starelevator.com/projects/star-elevator-modernization-of-the-metropolis-trust-building
26•palashawas•3d ago•10 comments

SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer
1•alexchantavy•31m ago

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
589•altertable•18h ago•196 comments

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it

https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/
72•andychiare•2d ago•42 comments

O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
8•embedding-shape•1h ago•0 comments

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-...
252•beardyw•5h ago•94 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
366•feb•2d ago•260 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
285•speckx•20h ago•92 comments

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
127•theanonymousone•4d ago•56 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
359•gmays•1d ago•137 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
313•rabahs•22h ago•102 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

https://gwern.net/xanadu
92•andsoitis•10h ago•25 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
305•karimf•20h ago•108 comments

1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260828-the-startling-1960s-theory-that-stonehenge-was-a-pre...
43•dabinat•4d ago•52 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
241•screm•15h ago•111 comments

Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life with His Simulation Software

https://spectrum.ieee.org/oscar-winner-jernej-barbic
13•jruohonen•3d ago•0 comments

Move in C++ without a std:move

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/09/move-in-cpp-without-a-stdmove/
54•dalvrosa•2d ago•62 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
192•thread_id•1d ago•117 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

92•sukit•1d ago•118 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
130•nsm•2d ago•53 comments

US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average

https://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87
23•geox•1h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Reactor Atlas

https://reactoratlas.com
39•fedecaccia•23h ago•15 comments

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threads
42•jaccomo•2d ago•4 comments

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/
174•beeperboy95•1d ago•29 comments

From Hookswitch to Grave

https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html
34•Sniffnoy•9h ago•2 comments
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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/