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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
615•haunter•4h ago•195 comments

Appearing Productive in the Workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
288•diebillionaires•3h ago•94 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
96•stevekrouse•2h ago•39 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
37•elonlit•1d ago•10 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
405•Anon84•2d ago•273 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
12•benanne•1h ago•0 comments

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/
127•doener•1h ago•148 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
48•oahmadov•3h ago•15 comments

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2
407•hakonjdjohnsen•2d ago•49 comments

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
108•jandeboevrie•8h ago•32 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
47•zdw•1d ago•27 comments

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
47•maxutility•15h ago•9 comments

Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-26/colombia-hosts-talks-on-exiting-fossil-fuels...
83•PaulHoule•2h ago•50 comments

Knitting bullshit

https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/
377•ColinEberhardt•14h ago•159 comments

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
197•notsentient•13h ago•51 comments

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css
269•cheeaun•15h ago•37 comments

Going Full Time on Open Source

https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/
78•thunderbong•2h ago•7 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors
171•gnabgib•3d ago•62 comments

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-660...
217•neilfrndes•16h ago•159 comments

Proton Meet

https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet
40•Einenlum•1h ago•6 comments

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit

https://www.coveragecat.com/careers/engineering/fractional-growth-engineer
1•botacode•7h ago

CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
124•pseudolus•4h ago•94 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
44•unforgivenpasta•1h ago•31 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

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8•jonbaer•2h ago•1 comments

Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)

https://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
116•ksymph•2d ago•25 comments

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
295•veeti•18h ago•102 comments

The Thinking Plant's Man (2025)

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-thinking-plants-man/
48•benbreen•2d ago•11 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
594•rolph•16h ago•344 comments

StarFighter 16-Inch

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
625•signa11•17h ago•341 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4 Is Out

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html
6•s1291•16m ago•0 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/