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After 7 months, Glasswing overwelms maintainers with underwhelming findings

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update
300•panic•4h ago•129 comments

A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)

https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-12-14-great-old-timey-game-programming-hack.html
33•palsecam•1h ago•5 comments

.name Grandfathered

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/11/10/
711•p4bl0•10h ago•166 comments

Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America

https://www.theautopian.com/scion-is-back-and-its-going-to-sell-a-freaking-kei-truck-in-america/
358•NaOH•7h ago•264 comments

Smart home devices should work without the internet

https://docodethatmatters.com/home-automation-overnight-success/
750•skittleson•11h ago•269 comments

Six Math Essentials by Terence Tao

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/six-math-essentials.html
151•digital55•6h ago•27 comments

Starlink Mini 2

https://starlink.com/mini-2
286•robertjfclarke•8h ago•293 comments

Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102549/acbc92e00cee3a3f/
320•speckx•9h ago•179 comments

Hacking the Meta Ray-Ban smartglasses

https://p0pcycle.com/2026/11/06/hacking-the-meta-ray-ban-smartglasses/
61•moooooky•3d ago•20 comments

Val Town is winding down

https://blog.val.town/winding-down
317•tosh•9h ago•84 comments

AlphaProof Code

https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-alphaproof-code/
585•ilreb•15h ago•178 comments

Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance
278•paulirish•9h ago•86 comments

LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100

https://tis-100.wincon.dev/
16•fairestvalue•2h ago•1 comments

Hooked on Tuna

https://blue-continuum.com/hooked-on-tuna
5•dnetesn•52m ago•0 comments

Pinot Noir: inside the criminal gangs making fake wine

https://www.economist.com/interactive/2026/11/06/pinot-noir-inside-the-criminal-gangs-making-fake...
35•axiomdata316•2d ago•8 comments

What objective is reasoning solving?

https://alexwang.ai/posts/reasoning-as-pathfinding/
113•gmays•7h ago•51 comments

AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-zen-6-family-feeding-the-beast
192•pixelpoet•10h ago•73 comments

AI is an information gateway. Audiences still don't want it making their news

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/11/ai-is-becoming-an-information-gateway-audiences-still-dont-want...
15•rdmuser•3h ago•6 comments

$30M Raised to Redo the CPU

https://tendrils.co/blog/2026-11-10/30m-raised
40•shioyama•5h ago•30 comments

Research taste in history: the importance of learning Babylonian math

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/research-taste-in-history-the-importance
18•benbreen•7h ago•1 comments

Ableton Live 13

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/
285•phaser•14h ago•304 comments

Process Explorer for macOS

https://github.com/microsoft/Procexp-Mac
145•ingve•1d ago•53 comments

A comprehensive study of how fingerprintable users are

https://fingerprinting.study/
78•tomrittervg•8h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View

https://tinyvalencia.com/
206•leugim•12h ago•52 comments

AI usage generates a fragile codebase

https://evanxmerz.com/post/ai-usage-generates-a-fragile-codebase/
405•plun9•16h ago•422 comments

Simon Winchester has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/obituaries/simon-winchester-dead.html
77•benbreen•2d ago•27 comments

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/sherman-anti-trust-act
75•hashmap•6h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser

https://aircad.com
27•peetle•12h ago•12 comments

What's new in the .NET 11 runtime

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotnet-11/runtime
245•stevefan1999•14h ago•178 comments

Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-3/
444•amlib•11h ago•68 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/