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Cameras and Lenses (2020)

https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
265•sebg•4h ago•24 comments

Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-wan...
119•Vinnl•58m ago•67 comments

A website to destroy all websites

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
23•g0xA52A2A•57m ago•8 comments

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points
44•thomasjb•2h ago•15 comments

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

https://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers
296•max_lt•6h ago•100 comments

iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines-jp/
289•eklavya•8h ago•194 comments

2025 Letter

https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
188•Amorymeltzer•7h ago•109 comments

Python numbers every programmer should know

https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/
200•WoodenChair•6h ago•92 comments

C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer

https://zelang-dev.github.io/c-events/
42•thetechstech•6d ago•6 comments

Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows

https://lethain.com/agents-coordinators/
35•pavel_lishin•2h ago•6 comments

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
75•teekert•2d ago•11 comments

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl
146•wslh•2h ago•76 comments

Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone
380•AndrewDucker•10h ago•120 comments

Memory Subsystem Optimizations

https://johnnysswlab.com/memory-subsystem-optimizations/
33•mfiguiere•3h ago•5 comments

Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo)

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Build a Deep Learning Library

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81•butanyways•6h ago•12 comments

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59•fsmunoz•5h ago•7 comments

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268•edent•10h ago•206 comments

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71•Kyro38•4d ago•19 comments

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Love your customers

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71•chmaynard•1d ago•13 comments

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70•centamiv•5h ago•14 comments

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9•schnetzlerjoe•40m ago•2 comments

Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/pages/readings/
4•mpweiher•3h ago•0 comments

Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015)

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6•indigodaddy•7h ago•1 comments

Prompting People

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4•kuberwastaken•1h ago•1 comments

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202•gloxkiqcza•5h ago•50 comments

Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

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119•aussieguy1234•11h ago•97 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•8mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•8mo 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•8mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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/