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OpenRouter raises $113M Series B

https://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-b
136•freeCandy•1h ago•56 comments

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30
64•kristoff_it•1h ago•9 comments

Voxel Space

https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/
175•davikr•4h ago•37 comments

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html
33•pwg•1h ago•5 comments

Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157327/Hormuz-crisis-side-effect-a-sharp-rise-in-container-shipping...
12•mooreds•40m ago•4 comments

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
237•sph•8h ago•106 comments

Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/09/26/insignificant-bullets-evil-poachers-and-l-a-culture/
39•Michelangelo11•2h ago•14 comments

Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)

https://musings.martyn.berlin/lets-talk-about-eu-sovereignty
13•mooreds•1h ago•7 comments

Pandoc Templates

https://pandoc-templates.org/
297•ankitg12•9h ago•43 comments

Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine

https://myzopotamia.dev/navier-stokes-fluid-simulation-explained-with-godot
124•myzek•3d ago•21 comments

It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/it-takes-two-neurons-to-ride-a-bicycle#email-newsletter
59•malshe•4d ago•16 comments

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2B

https://www.theverge.com/tech/889234/downdetector-ookla-speedtest-sold-accenture
95•Garbage•2h ago•54 comments

IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses

https://www.engadget.com/wearables/ixis-autofocusing-lenses-multifocal-glasses-ces-2026-212608427...
111•amichail•2d ago•46 comments

Zig: Build System Reworked

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26
287•tosh•10h ago•181 comments

Searching for Birds

https://SearchingForBirds.VisualCinnamon.com/
4•robin_reala•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain

https://helios.southlondonscientific.com/
86•ruaraidh•7h ago•30 comments

What Happened to the Locusts?

https://explosion-scratch.github.io/locusts/
156•explosion-s•4d ago•33 comments

Stateless Actors

https://www.massicotte.org/stateless-actors/
9•frizlab•1d ago•1 comments

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/
648•tomasol•1d ago•346 comments

Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges

https://thecretefleet.com/blog/f/testing-the-wwi-concrete-ships-and-wwii-concrete-barges
33•surprisetalk•1d ago•9 comments

Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/05/memory-decline-after-menopause-linked-to-loss-of-es...
106•gmays•4h ago•48 comments

A Probabilistic Algorithm for Repairing All Roads in Lebanon via Papal Visits (2025)

https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A13%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22...
66•kmstout•3h ago•3 comments

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit
437•vnglst•1d ago•191 comments

Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9

https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf
94•gattilorenz•12h ago•23 comments

MCP is dead?

https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead
360•nadis•20h ago•344 comments

Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

43•karakoram•3h ago•30 comments

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/
267•GaggiX•3d ago•101 comments

The Last Technical Interview

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564
212•headalgorithm•23h ago•205 comments

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

https://blog.prusa3d.com/our-new-open-source-colormix-model-in-prusaslicer-and-easyprint_136079/
214•rented_mule•4d ago•67 comments

The dead economy theory

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
1207•WillDaSilva•1d ago•1323 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/