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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
698•dbreunig•1h ago•206 comments

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

301•aarushyadav•2h ago•206 comments

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

https://momentic.ai/
75•wuweiweiwu•3h ago•52 comments

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

https://namedaisy.com/blog/boy-names-that-became-girl-names
155•xoobdev•3h ago•165 comments

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/
33•smilelamp•1h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre

https://p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxel/
130•stared•3h ago•27 comments

If you love a website, back it up

https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/
230•ingve•6h ago•55 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)

119•whoishiring•4h ago•98 comments

SOML – A Config Format for Humans

https://github.com/soml-lang/soml
25•microflash•1h ago•12 comments

Let Me Ch...

https://blog.alxgsv.com/let-me-check/
113•alxgsv•2h ago•32 comments

WTF Ubuntu?

https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu
1008•chalmovsky•5h ago•491 comments

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Technical Graduates in Denver (Engineering/CS Focus)

https://bitmovin.com/careers/8660599002/
1•slederer•3h ago

Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261102-00/?p=112818/
36•ibobev•1h ago•7 comments

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/oracle-files-to-sell-20-billion-in-new-stock-bonds-to-finance-ai-...
32•smartmic•44m ago•3 comments

Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks

https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432
47•majorchord•1h ago•6 comments

We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targeted-zone-builds/
94•wondersky•5h ago•29 comments

My Favourite Laptop

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/laptop
95•ibobev•3h ago•72 comments

Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-internal-ai-use-exceeds-employee-pay-tokens-2026-11
205•entryleveljobsc•3h ago•163 comments

Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.37741
46•gmays•1h ago•11 comments

Making Peace with the Projective Plane

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/02/projective-plane/
12•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks

https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/
58•pretext•5h ago•19 comments

Skill to Create Product Videos

https://github.com/aaitor/skill-video-studio
12•aaitor•2h ago•1 comments

Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO

https://www.ft.com/content/4d91dbab-6fe4-45ab-beee-d77e091cb37f
23•zomtorg•35m ago•3 comments

Moving our warehouse off DuckDB

https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb
124•emschwartz•4h ago•91 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part11/
30•ibobev•5h ago•8 comments

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span
296•EA-3167•18h ago•117 comments

Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API

https://syscall.sh/
176•guitmz•10h ago•47 comments

Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-su...
295•fergie•8h ago•357 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/
53•torutofu•6h ago•24 comments

GPT-Rosalind-6 System Card Addendum

https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-rosalind-6
51•gmays•5h ago•44 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•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/