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PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-11-06-ui-updates-complete/
74•rbanffy•1h ago•11 comments

Italy fines Meta €805M over photo privacy

https://www.rapporteur.com/news/italy-fines-meta-880mn-over-photo-privacy-authority/
43•jruohonen•1h ago•10 comments

KDE: The Documentary on Free Software [video]

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/fFinNHfanLT7aBEb2B8y4c
141•mrkn1•3h ago•11 comments

Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone?

https://so.long.thanks.fish/why-pi-when-i-have-an-old-phone/
360•casi•4d ago•220 comments

Advancing science and engineering with Antigravity's /teamwork

https://research.google/blog/advancing-science-engineering-with-antigravitys-teamwork-feature/
60•acossta•3h ago•16 comments

Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui

https://gitlab.com/snipedbywifi/terminactory
69•snipedbywifi•3h ago•11 comments

Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text

https://news.umich.edu/generative-ai-uses-more-energy-on-non-english-text/
89•DeepLogin•4d ago•60 comments

Show HN: Fursoy – Out-of-order RV64IMAFDV core in SystemVerilog (Linux 6.6)

https://github.com/FURSOY/fursoy-cpu
27•fursoy•3h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Agweb – a browser for agents that stays out of your way

https://github.com/paul-nameless/agweb
42•paul_nameless•3h ago•9 comments

Ggml v1.0.0

https://github.com/ggml-org/ggml/releases/tag/v1.0.0
375•cobychapple•14h ago•60 comments

Testing a Trash Can Faraday Cage

https://www.jefftk.com/p/testing-a-trash-can-faraday-cage
35•torutofu•2d ago•17 comments

Tech Companies Are Trying to Shift the Concept of Privacy (Again)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/tech-companies-are-trying-shift-entire-concept-privacy-again
223•gslin•4h ago•84 comments

Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side

https://monkeyisland.pages.dev/
345•maximilianburke•12h ago•113 comments

Italy fines Meta $887M over Android users' data access

https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-fines-meta-887-million-over-android-users-data-access-2026-11...
137•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•59 comments

Formalizing US Tax Code (Using Lean)

https://lexifina.com/blog/formalizing-the-us-tax-code
38•dnw•1h ago•9 comments

Serving GLM-5.3 at 607.8 tok/s across two Nvidia DGX stations with vLLM

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/when-one-gpu-isnt-enough-serving-glm-5-3-across-two-nvidia-dgx-...
73•wondersky•3h ago•35 comments

C3 0.8.6:Library fetching,30% smaller safe-mode binaries,and stricter type rules

https://c3-lang.org/blog/c3_0_8_6_fetching_libraries/
8•DASD•2d ago•1 comments

Let's Write a PostScript Interpreter

https://beyondloom.com/blog/postscript.html
62•RebelPotato•1d ago•11 comments

Show HN: DeepSeek V3 in ~200 lines of pure Jax

https://github.com/Vaibhaav-Tiwari/deepseek-v3-jax
7•VaibhaavTiwari•2h ago•0 comments

Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to...
933•speckx•14h ago•565 comments

Terminal borders that don't cost a cell

https://www.joshka.net/cell-borders/
378•vinhnx•18h ago•164 comments

A visual explanation of reinforcement learning

https://aatishb.com/myriad/how-brains-learn/
33•aatish•3h ago•0 comments

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B Quantizations – Dynamic v3.1 Update

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8
219•Retro_Dev•17h ago•70 comments

Bilingualism and Denaskuleco

https://pgadey.ca/notes/bilingualism-and-denaskuleco/
14•surprisetalk•2d ago•5 comments

FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-departing-flights-reasons-...
1618•zulln•20h ago•1238 comments

What happened to 3Com?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-3com/
189•gvieri•17h ago•107 comments

Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop

https://grounds.top/
194•gvsi•18h ago•24 comments

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03638-3
241•gumby•21h ago•70 comments

Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data

https://github.com/0xdeadf1sh/T1DMAI
78•0xdeadf1sh•3d ago•42 comments

FM-1 Workbench

https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench
260•simonebrunozzi•22h ago•169 comments
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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/