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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
465•specked-citrus•11h ago•282 comments

CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/captchas-dont-prove-youre-human-they-prove-youre-american/
7•theanonymousone•24m ago•2 comments

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html
57•allanrbo•4h ago•9 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
107•srcreigh•6h ago•106 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
299•jmvldz•1d ago•279 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
437•Ardakilic•14h ago•117 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
195•pancomplex•18h ago•83 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
185•fratellobigio•11h ago•270 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
66•azhenley•1d ago•33 comments

The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-murky-history-of-soviet-born-tetris/
38•EA-3167•1d ago•9 comments

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?

https://safenotsafe.dev/
3•vira28•1h ago•0 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
211•pseudolus•7h ago•48 comments

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-select-distinct-does-not-scale
71•KraftyOne•1d ago•21 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
189•ibobev•17h ago•164 comments

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

116•mlaux•13h ago•101 comments

Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

https://adekau.github.io/posts/2020/llamas.html
37•cebert•1d ago•2 comments

Scientists build most accurate atomic clock

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-scientists-world-accurate-atomic-clock.html
7•wglb•2d ago•3 comments

A new world airport and its baggage

https://computer.rip/2026-09-20-denver-baggage.html
20•firloop•2d ago•2 comments

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-...
178•luispa•11h ago•127 comments

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-flor...
169•HotGarbage•7h ago•68 comments

Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

https://spectrum.ieee.org/serotonin-stress-smart-contact-lens
42•marc__1•10h ago•10 comments

From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The Tine Build System

https://amutable.com/blog/tine-build-system
12•Levitating•1d ago•0 comments

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/
68•epestr•22h ago•15 comments

First Principles Thinking

https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
258•sunils34•18h ago•111 comments

Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

https://hackeratlas.com/
57•andrearitossa•19h ago•17 comments

HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027

https://www.homelabfest.org
27•geerlingguy•6h ago•12 comments

Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/alberta-canada-rat-patrol
15•pseudolus•2h ago•6 comments

Remembering Johannes Doerfert

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-24-rememberingjohannesdoerfert/
86•sdko•1d ago•2 comments

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
441•cramer4next•17h ago•762 comments

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-wi...
121•sbulaev•18h ago•111 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/