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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
494•Eric_Gullichsen•5h ago•199 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
65•teleforce•3h ago•10 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
433•gmays•13h ago•203 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
1131•sancho-panza•11h ago•607 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
55•evakhoury•12h ago•19 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
144•mooreds•11h ago•50 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
110•midnightfish•11h ago•36 comments

Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341
40•ryanscio•5h ago•13 comments

There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/there-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-det...
119•utiiiD•1d ago•60 comments

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
52•arbayi•2d ago•20 comments

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026

https://shnatsel.github.io/state-of-simd-rust-2026/
130•verdagon•2d ago•27 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
221•birdculture•14h ago•100 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/
221•safaelmali•12h ago•100 comments

Deterministic Concurrency [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x0UuSCKuU
20•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/09/readings-bayeux-tapestry.html
36•zeristor•1d ago•11 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html
99•bingden•12h ago•28 comments

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8
5•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM

https://github.com/deepfates/imp
71•mpweiher•11h ago•7 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html
237•danso•16h ago•88 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/
163•surprisetalk•17h ago•89 comments

Previously unheard recordings of John Coltrane, captured by Frank Tiberi

https://www.jazzwise.com/content/news/john-coltrane-centenary-celebrations-see-impulse-records-re...
82•gregsadetsky•2d ago•30 comments

Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)

https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php
147•ibobev•2d ago•100 comments

Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Xn3030IvM
70•Rochus•13h ago•21 comments

TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14

https://efraingaray.com/en/blog/tabpfn-vs-xgboost/
18•EfrainGaray•4h ago•9 comments

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/a-new-experiment-meta-strategy
22•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

Packing Binary Is Fun

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually
6•BurnerBurner•5h ago•2 comments

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

https://fakecloud.dev/
132•theanonymousone•1d ago•64 comments

The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

https://generalroboticslab.com/cartesian_handv1
82•AareyBaba•2d ago•12 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
58•dima55•10h ago•44 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands...
83•gmays•16h ago•10 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/