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Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-orders-deletion-of-the-uks-largest-court-r...
61•harel•1h ago•24 comments

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg
98•todsacerdoti•4h ago•38 comments

Running My Own XMPP Server

https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp-turn-stun-coturn-prosody/
11•speckx•51m ago•3 comments

Ghidra by NSA

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
23•handfuloflight•2d ago•4 comments

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
874•novemp•7h ago•549 comments

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5
123•danielhanchen•4h ago•51 comments

I’m joining OpenAI

https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
1210•mfiguiere•16h ago•891 comments

Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code

https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2026/ocr-textbooks-modal-deepseek/
45•mpcsb•4d ago•15 comments

The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally
140•0x54MUR41•2h ago•80 comments

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
117•beardyw•3h ago•59 comments

Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

https://modern-css.com
562•eustoria•20h ago•215 comments

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/
322•prophylaxis•16h ago•217 comments

Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil
53•gurjeet•3d ago•16 comments

Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve

https://blog.exe.dev/expensively-quadratic
70•luu•3d ago•36 comments

1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300-year-old-world-chronicle-unearthed-in-sinai/156948
81•telotortium•4d ago•10 comments

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
377•classichasclass•21h ago•183 comments

Audio is the one area small labs are winning

https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/arming-the-rebels-with-gpus-gradium-kyutai-and-audio-ai
239•rocauc•3d ago•67 comments

Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business
112•andsoitis•11h ago•75 comments

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
142•dClauzel•2h ago•110 comments

Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/science/luna-9-moon-lander-soviet.html
80•Brajeshwar•4d ago•50 comments

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser

https://microgpt.boratto.ca
231•b44•19h ago•23 comments

I gave Claude access to my pen plotter

https://harmonique.one/posts/i-gave-claude-access-to-my-pen-plotter
232•futurecat•2d ago•150 comments

JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performanc...
119•luu•14h ago•140 comments

picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

https://github.com/antirez/picol
74•tosh•6h ago•41 comments

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026...
1111•giuliomagnifico•21h ago•734 comments

Building SQLite with a small swarm

https://kiankyars.github.io/machine_learning/2026/02/12/sqlite.html
82•kyars•8h ago•69 comments

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

https://gwern.net/gwtar
262•theblazehen•22h ago•79 comments

Hard problems in social media archiving

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/hard-problems-in-social-media-archiving/
19•surprisetalk•3d ago•3 comments

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/
180•tobr•3d ago•15 comments

Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)

https://peterxjang.medium.com/designing-a-36-key-custom-keyboard-layout-24498a0eecd4
27•speckx•2d ago•12 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•10mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•10mo 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•10mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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/