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Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
330•suioir•6h ago•25 comments

The Gentle Seduction

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
53•JumpCrisscross•2h ago•3 comments

Anatomy of BoltzGen

https://huggingface.co/spaces/ludocomito/anatomy-of-boltzgen
6•danielfalbo•42m ago•0 comments

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
1152•maartin0•12h ago•635 comments

Can I start using Wayland in 2026?

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/
73•secure•2h ago•46 comments

The suck is why we're here

https://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/
308•herbertl•11h ago•166 comments

GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene

https://gdimayhem.temari.fr/index.php?p=all
81•todsacerdoti•5d ago•9 comments

From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-silicon-to-darude-sand-storm-breaking-famous-synthesizer-dsps
33•anigbrowl•4d ago•4 comments

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/
591•mtlynch•18h ago•109 comments

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible

https://docs.swifdroid.com/app/
222•mihael•11h ago•130 comments

The PGP Problem (2019)

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/
12•croemer•1h ago•52 comments

MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python

https://github.com/obround/mytorch
76•iguana2000•9h ago•13 comments

How Thomas Mann Wrote the Magic Mountain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/31/the-master-of-contradictions-by-morten-hi-jensen-re...
64•Caiero•8h ago•25 comments

Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop
38•rguiscard•7h ago•8 comments

KDE onboarding is good now

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110•todsacerdoti•10h ago•69 comments

Corroded: Illegal Rust

https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded
115•csmantle•10h ago•30 comments

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https://github.com/mprajyothreddy/brainkernel
32•ImPrajyoth•4d ago•22 comments

The Late Arrival of 16-Bit CP/M

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-arrival-of-16-bit-cpm
53•rbanffy•5d ago•6 comments

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https://github.com/BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect
32•Bayram•6h ago•16 comments

Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute

https://github.com/corundum/corundum
24•peter_d_sherman•6h ago•6 comments

Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby

https://github.com/tenderlove/pixoo-rb
18•0x54MUR41•4h ago•1 comments

Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system

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84•INGELRII•6d ago•39 comments

Finger-Nose Stylus for Touch Screens (2011)

https://variationsonnormal.com/2011/04/28/finger-nose-stylus-for-touchscreens/
32•downboots•5d ago•16 comments

The First Video Game Came Long Before Pong

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9•geox•4d ago•1 comments

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15•antognini•6h ago•2 comments

Take One Small Step

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99•jamesgill•13h ago•24 comments

The C3 Programming Language

https://c3-lang.org
342•y1n0•18h ago•211 comments

The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

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68•1659447091•9h ago•111 comments

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25741
68•remexre•13h ago•10 comments

Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time

https://xr0.dev
93•Alifatisk•17h ago•29 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•8mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•8mo 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•8mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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/