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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/
544•jms703•9h ago•258 comments

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
206•vga1•8h ago•79 comments

Better Images of AI

https://betterimagesofai.org/
26•Curiositry•3h ago•16 comments

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013
63•babelfish•4h ago•13 comments

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/
340•xbryanx•12h ago•87 comments

AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/28/ai-boom-risks-global-financial-crash-central-bank...
69•b-man•2h ago•53 comments

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus
366•engmarketer•10h ago•476 comments

Deciphering Basmala

https://blog.plover.com/lang/bismillah.html
19•lordgrenville•4d ago•5 comments

Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online
41•rmason•1h ago•6 comments

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/top500-at-isc26-we-have-a-new-number
85•rbanffy•7h ago•41 comments

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/boeing-747-retirement/687304/
151•dbl000•3d ago•208 comments

Show HN: Zanagrams

https://zanagrams.com/
203•pompomsheep•12h ago•53 comments

Librepods: AirPods liberated

https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods
300•rbanffy•8h ago•97 comments

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-i...
307•geox•10h ago•408 comments

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html
94•zdw•10h ago•22 comments

The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (2020)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric...
26•phaser•2d ago•5 comments

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html
117•MaysonL•11h ago•36 comments

Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/06/a-new-type-of-pixel.html
51•tspng•1d ago•33 comments

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing
118•theahura•11h ago•144 comments

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html
79•TeaVMFan•10h ago•34 comments

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847
181•pikseladam•15h ago•121 comments

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online
341•bilsbie•15h ago•285 comments

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html
88•pwg•11h ago•20 comments

You might not need a service worker

https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/you-might-not-need-a-service-worker/
4•Fudgel•2h ago•0 comments

Model Training as Code

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/model-training-as-code/
25•peterBlue75•3d ago•9 comments

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/
211•colinprince•14h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

https://github.com/kamaludu/bash4llm/
38•kamaludu•7h ago•15 comments

Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

https://github.com/JustVugg/nanoeuler
38•vforno•7h ago•9 comments

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc
72•Rochus•14h ago•42 comments

British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005)

https://www.britishorigami.org/cp-lister-list/the-1955-exhibition-by-akira-yoshizawa/
22•dang•8h ago•2 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/