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IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-f...
56•bonzini•1h ago•14 comments

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)

https://blogit.michelin.io/clojure-programming/
40•smartmic•2h ago•7 comments

Artemis II Launch Day Updates

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/
926•apitman•17h ago•796 comments

Gone (Almost) Phishin'

https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
29•luu•2d ago•10 comments

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?

https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
133•jaden•6h ago•37 comments

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/mercor-says-it-was-hit-by-cyberattack-tied-to-compromise-of-ope...
47•jackson-mcd•1d ago•15 comments

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
395•hkmaxpro•7h ago•179 comments

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9665
177•Strilanc•10h ago•60 comments

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
577•elithrar•18h ago•421 comments

A new C++ back end for ocamlc

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14701
183•glittershark•10h ago•15 comments

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
479•ingve•12h ago•404 comments

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0v36ek2go
27•chrisjj•1h ago•3 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers, designers, and more [on-site, Berlin]

http://hi.telli.com/join-us
1•sebselassie•3h ago

Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker

https://www.sunnywingsvirtual.com/artemis2/timeline.html
59•AustinDev•6h ago•13 comments

Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter

https://blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast-and-gorgeous-erosion-filter.html
163•runevision•2d ago•15 comments

Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM

https://www.himthe.dev/blog/msi-forgot-my-fans
23•bobsterlobster•2d ago•8 comments

Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it

https://bytemash.net/posts/subscription-bombing-your-signup-form-is-a-weapon/
161•homelessdino•6h ago•109 comments

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
283•hauntsaninja•4d ago•41 comments

What Gödel Discovered (2020)

https://stopa.io/post/269
57•qnleigh•2d ago•9 comments

AI for American-produced cement and concrete

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/30/data-center-engineering/ai-for-american-produced-cement-and...
194•latchkey•17h ago•113 comments

The story of Britain's oldest sweet, the Pontefract Cake (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190710-the-strange-story-of-britains-oldest-sweet
3•thomassmith65•1d ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)

241•whoishiring•19h ago•209 comments

Signing data structures the wrong way

https://blog.foks.pub/posts/domain-separation-in-idl/
105•malgorithms•14h ago•45 comments

Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2

https://wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi2
43•wgreenberg•2d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)

https://getdull.app
89•kasparnoor•13h ago•71 comments

Weather.com/Retro

https://weather.com/retro/
213•typeofhuman•8h ago•38 comments

The revenge of the data scientist

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/revenge/
143•hamelsmu•4d ago•28 comments

SpaceX files to go public

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html
319•nutjob2•16h ago•431 comments

StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)

https://app.uniclaw.ai/arena?tab=costEffectiveness&via=hn
159•skysniper•18h ago•74 comments

Set the Line Before It's Crossed

https://nomagicpill.substack.com/p/set-the-line-before-its-crossed
65•surprisetalk•2d 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•11mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•11mo 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•11mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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/