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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27b
183•xenova•2h ago•53 comments

The Tower Keeps Rising

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/
217•cdrnsf•3h ago•97 comments

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/
588•MrVandemar•3d ago•390 comments

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left
72•Synthetic7346•2h ago•17 comments

The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

https://2b2t.place/1million
75•_____k•3d ago•18 comments

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing
327•shintoist•9h ago•402 comments

Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

https://www.verbaprima.com/
120•plicerin•5h ago•73 comments

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-ai
292•yenniejun111•5h ago•286 comments

Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK

https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk/
300•hoechst•4h ago•171 comments

The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/open-source/zero-cost-fallacy-open-source-agentic-era
71•backlit4034•4d ago•51 comments

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

https://gwern.net/guardian-angel
12•andsoitis•8h ago•0 comments

A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

https://grist.org/science/nitrogen-cycle-cell-discovery-nitroplast-science-fertilizer-algae-bacte...
129•gumby•5d ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations

https://agnost.ai
28•laalshaitaan•4h ago•12 comments

Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kontigo/jobs/uNttrlv-head-of-security
1•jecastillof•3h ago

The Second Life of Sanskrit

https://openthemagazine.com/india/the-second-life-of-sanskrit
12•bookofjoe•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE

https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler
125•julesrms•2d ago•73 comments

Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely

https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718
111•asiergoni•11h ago•138 comments

The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat

https://www.bobbytables.io/p/the-agentic-loop-three-loops-in-a
51•btables•6h ago•11 comments

Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
78•FinnLobsien•6h ago•85 comments

Punch yourself in the face with reality

https://adi.bio/reality
176•AdityaAnand1•9h ago•91 comments

I'm a USB-C Maximalist

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/
58•speckx•5h ago•101 comments

Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program (1987) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/36177.36194
52•linggen•4d ago•9 comments

How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/blocking-botnets-with-reaction
146•pseudolus•2d ago•52 comments

Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection

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99•RyanJK5•8h ago•41 comments

European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19
398•roundabout-host•12h ago•272 comments

Paxos Made Simple (2001) [pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
61•grep_it•5d ago•7 comments

Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k)

https://github.com/Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai
84•Danau5tin•8h ago•39 comments

StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stubhub-ceo-class-action-scalping-9.7268987
18•b112•1h ago•1 comments

Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity

https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/
249•i2oc•16h ago•324 comments

Show HN: A Free RSS reader with a configurable recommendation engine

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3•sammy0910•1h ago•0 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/