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Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

https://divagr.com/blog/qwenputer
371•csmantle•7h ago•80 comments

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons
1110•hazebooth•14h ago•220 comments

We Won't "Just Hang Out"

https://borretti.me/article/we-wont-just-hang-out
32•barry-cotter•1h ago•27 comments

Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

https://inventor7777.github.io/blog/2026/10/22/debug-access-on-brother/
7•inventor7777•2d ago•0 comments

A new faster algorithm to compute 64-bit signed floor division

https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-floordiv
42•benjoffe•1d ago•4 comments

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1
361•babelfish•8h ago•302 comments

A Health Update

https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/
222•frizlab•10h ago•35 comments

GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html
163•sashk•8h ago•72 comments

Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model

https://gist.github.com/flamerix-ai/c3905705cc4205e5de3011fa2e74efce
309•NikZaal•4h ago•93 comments

OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

https://the-decoder.com/openais-isolated-ai-agents-found-ways-to-talk-to-each-other-through-cpu-c...
85•limbicsystem•2d ago•30 comments

CNC Stone Carving

https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
458•bschne•17h ago•128 comments

Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

https://smsofdeath.com/
4•MarkBlah•55m ago•1 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/
902•acossta•15h ago•737 comments

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
492•seddona•2d ago•219 comments

Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/
171•mhb•10h ago•109 comments

Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2026-10-the-last-proof-of-human-craft-browser-full-chain/
5•austinallegro•1h ago•0 comments

Human-enhanced tsunami hazard in large lakes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-78272-8
30•gumby•2d ago•2 comments

Treap (Cartesian Tree)

https://cp-algorithms.com/data_structures/treap.html
15•vismit2000•2d ago•2 comments

Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)

https://lede-v2.nautil.us/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest-237864
140•andsoitis•4d ago•27 comments

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/
562•etothet•14h ago•954 comments

Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/12/nixpkgs-for-the-frontend-impaired
53•surprisetalk•2d ago•11 comments

The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)

https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md
99•theanonymousone•3d ago•94 comments

AlpineBSD

https://wiki.alpinebsd.org
206•bradley_taunt•17h ago•192 comments

Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring Across Eng, FDE, Marketing, DevRel

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•11h ago

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
1112•galadran•21h ago•392 comments

Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/zillow-pay-2125-million-settle-class-action-over-failed-...
35•WaitWaitWha•4h ago•9 comments

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax
226•landonxi•16h ago•147 comments

Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-spiders-spin-silk-dope-into-natures-toughest-material-20261028/
60•ibobev•14h ago•6 comments

The case of the 9 bit AES key

https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key
108•ledoge•11h ago•56 comments

Scaling Hierarchical Networks

https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/from-tokens-to-bytes-part-1
62•guybedo•13h ago•2 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/