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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269
110•bilsbie•1h ago•47 comments

Make people pay to get into your inbox

https://www.captchainbox.com
27•felixdoerp•58m ago•35 comments

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
593•vinhnx•9h ago•144 comments

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

https://ramones.dev/posts/mental-health/
34•ramon156•1h ago•5 comments

Weathergotchi – an open-source climate Tamagotchi

https://github.com/Michael-Manning/E-Paper-Climate-Logger
22•luanmuniz•1h ago•7 comments

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-and-dsls.html
34•SirOibaf•2h ago•11 comments

Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7013338
16•fabioricardo7•1h ago•18 comments

Jiga (YC W21) is hiring the best people to make manufacturing great again

https://jiga.io/about-us/
1•grmmph•57m ago

Telegram Serverless

https://core.telegram.org/bots/serverless
28•soheilpro•2h ago•18 comments

A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS

https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/05/30/xd.html
18•zetamax•1d ago•0 comments

Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-values-models-languages
15•taubek•2h ago•4 comments

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

https://vpd.ca/
310•LookAtThatBacon•12h ago•123 comments

Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27b
639•xenova•19h ago•226 comments

TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins
179•jervant•11h ago•101 comments

Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

https://github.com/LazoVelko/neverclick
26•thunderbong•3d ago•29 comments

The Tower Keeps Rising

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/
503•cdrnsf•19h ago•232 comments

Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/15/whos-running-all-those-tiny-rpki-servers/
54•enz•6h ago•6 comments

Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800645.3813051
6•hopelessluca•1h ago•2 comments

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-coo...
190•woodruffw•15h ago•123 comments

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left
400•Synthetic7346•18h ago•190 comments

How I use HTMX with Go

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go
280•gnabgib•17h ago•84 comments

Filmgrab: Films A-Z

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5•hopelessluca•1h ago•1 comments

Combinatorial Games in Lean

https://github.com/vihdzp/combinatorial-games
22•wertyk•3d ago•3 comments

Andon (manufacturing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)
63•tony•3d ago•24 comments

I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist
442•macleginn•6h ago•212 comments

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing
561•shintoist•1d ago•579 comments

Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/
158•robin_reala•15h ago•98 comments

I'm a USB-C Maximalist

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/
314•speckx•21h ago•408 comments

RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues

https://www.eetimes.com/risc-v-is-inevitable-state-of-the-union-keynote-argues/
91•signa11•6h ago•88 comments

Using Go for Mobile Apps

https://www.davidsobsessions.com/p/one-year-of-gomobile/
8•theHocineSaad•3h ago•0 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/