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The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

https://www.ioccc.org/2025/
73•matt_d•1h ago•9 comments

I design with Claude more than Figma now

https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/
88•MrBuddyCasino•2h ago•54 comments

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/issues/398
115•babuskov•4h ago•53 comments

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses
71•gscott•4h ago•36 comments

My Software North Star

https://kristoff.it/blog/north-star/
37•kristoff_it•3d ago•10 comments

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470
86•Anon84•6h ago•26 comments

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust

https://symbolica.io/posts/symbolica_2_0_release/
66•mmastrac•1d ago•6 comments

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

https://ntsc.rs/
327•gregsadetsky•12h ago•85 comments

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
175•pramodbiligiri•1d ago•112 comments

Public Domain Image Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/
97•davidbarker•7h ago•16 comments

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

https://hyperallergic.com/how-liminalism-became-the-defining-aesthetic-of-our-time/
48•zeech•5h ago•31 comments

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology

https://biohub.org/news/world-model-of-protein-biology/
51•gmays•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

https://github.com/sauravrao637/oproxy
35•sauravrao637•5h ago•6 comments

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved

https://cen.acs.org/materials/nanomaterials/buckyballs-boron-buckminster-fullerene-nanomaterials/...
77•crescit_eundo•2d ago•19 comments

Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting

https://gwern.net/llm-catapult
25•telotortium•7h ago•3 comments

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/
287•jwilk•17h ago•286 comments

Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math

https://alvaro-videla.com/llm-arithmetic-internals/article_interactive/article.html
9•old_sound•1d ago•3 comments

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abus...
557•speckx•13h ago•199 comments

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739
269•tosh•18h ago•458 comments

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve
222•losfair•16h ago•54 comments

Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
111•rohanucla•11h ago•38 comments

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity...
231•toephu2•1d ago•804 comments

Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

https://github.com/las7/TakoVM
19•sakuraiben•4h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue

https://respeak-io.github.io/lucide-motion-vue/
17•evolabs•2d ago•5 comments

The circus freaks of open source

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Circus-freaks-of-FOSS/
54•keyle•2h ago•14 comments

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

602•andrehacker•2d ago•1001 comments

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

https://mashable.com/tech/motorola-wifi-routers-stop-working-motosync-plus-app-down
125•thisislife2•16h ago•54 comments

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
37•kristianp•2d ago•7 comments

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

https://pokeemerald.com/
308•tripplyons•20h ago•87 comments

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

https://uonr.github.io/poincake/
155•uonr•4d ago•25 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/