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GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1613•kibae•11h ago•1379 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1616•pavel_lishin•15h ago•413 comments

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

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
514•altertable•11h ago•166 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

https://gwern.net/xanadu
62•andsoitis•4h ago•9 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
255•feb•2d ago•186 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
66•theanonymousone•3d ago•13 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
217•speckx•14h ago•64 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/
251•rabahs•16h ago•72 comments

From Hookswitch to Grave

https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html
19•Sniffnoy•3h ago•1 comments

Inside Colombia's Cocaine Factories

https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/08/28/inside-colombias-cocaine-factories
5•bookofjoe•2d ago•1 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
167•screm•9h ago•61 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
284•karimf•14h ago•92 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...
161•thread_id•1d ago•95 comments

A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/
65•johntfella•3h ago•42 comments

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

https://anyhumanever.com/
539•thinkingemote•15h ago•258 comments

Show HN: Reactor Atlas

https://reactoratlas.com
15•fedecaccia•17h ago•2 comments

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

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
250•gmays•1d ago•73 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

39•sukit•19h ago•57 comments

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/
57•kaonashi-tyc-01•2h ago•34 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
108•nsm•2d ago•43 comments

New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7328614
97•colinprince•2d ago•68 comments

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threads
22•jaccomo•2d ago•1 comments

Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys

https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/08/19/260819-sing-song/
11•zdw•3d ago•4 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer
1•mayop100•9h ago

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/
145•beeperboy95•1d ago•27 comments

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-includi...
98•gumby•7h ago•54 comments

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/
126•codechicago277•11h ago•138 comments

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

https://www.kevin.md/the-business-card-that-lights-up.md/
63•thekevintang•2d ago•19 comments

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

https://yalereview.org/article/emily-ogden-edgar-allan-poe
66•lermontov•1d ago•30 comments

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLisnSFir8y5AHkmP/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-astra-s-recurrent
120•yurivish•13h ago•75 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/