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DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
1032•ggcr•4h ago•353 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
41•evanb•1h ago•9 comments

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki
202•theanonymousone•7h ago•19 comments

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono
396•noriax86•1d ago•119 comments

NixOS is making me less afraid

https://entropicthoughts.com/nixos-is-making-me-less-afraid
16•ibobev•1h ago•1 comments

OpenBSD 8.0

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html
385•privong•11h ago•122 comments

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions
593•ds•14h ago•168 comments

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-banning-chinese-ai-deepseek-government-agency-it-systems-20...
392•cmrdporcupine•21h ago•337 comments

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/PpNKYBS-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
1•augustschen•1h ago

Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick

https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/
90•birdculture•2d ago•13 comments

Google cloud outage takes down banks

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-e...
139•paweladamczuk•3h ago•59 comments

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/der-viener-schlinger-the-meat-cannon-that-launched-20000-hot-dogs/
34•NaOH•1d ago•15 comments

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8
89•Kaibeezy•2d ago•6 comments

Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

https://peec.ai/blog/publish-stats-get-cited-the-tactic-that-put-my-data-all-over-the-web
5•robtherobber•39m ago•1 comments

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
495•jtg•21h ago•207 comments

An ad-free Android TV

https://cretezy.com/2026/ad-free-android-tv
300•CraftThatBlock•15h ago•117 comments

There Are over 1M New York City Street Signs. Here's How They Are Made.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/nyregion/nyc-street-sign-shop.html
23•bookofjoe•3d ago•12 comments

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/
267•croes•2d ago•22 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
593•iamnothere•1d ago•198 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
609•hakonjdjohnsen•1d ago•138 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
650•goostavos•2d ago•568 comments

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-h...
361•yzydserd•22h ago•258 comments

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

https://ipinfo.io/blog/france-fridges-hack
210•emot•13h ago•185 comments

How abliterated models can get you pwned

https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned
188•chatmasta•14h ago•108 comments

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

https://heymaxwell.ai/
110•laginimaineb•23h ago•46 comments

Spending 10 months building the most human-like chess bot

https://mbuffett.com/posts/most-human-chess-bot
11•marcusbuffett•21h ago•2 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
513•debo_•1d ago•155 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
220•evakhoury•2d ago•72 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

526•rzk•1d ago•641 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963
170•doener•16h ago•41 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/