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Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
126•Ardakilic•1h ago•38 comments

Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjntrqhn8pk
66•behoove•1h ago•12 comments

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment
303•yurivish•8h ago•118 comments

Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html
21•nicoraga•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
19•pancomplex•5h ago•3 comments

First Principles Thinking

https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
160•sunils34•6h ago•62 comments

Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
246•alentred•8h ago•87 comments

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
276•cramer4next•4h ago•412 comments

Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/09/googles-first-suncatcher-orbital-data-center-test-launches...
18•sbulaev•22h ago•2 comments

Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation
236•hugh4life•12h ago•105 comments

Ink and Switch interactive homepage

https://www.inkandswitch.com/
197•iFreilicht•10h ago•25 comments

Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special

https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-special/
43•Aeroi•1h ago•20 comments

Factorio that you can touch

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-447
249•ibobev•5h ago•68 comments

Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

https://cyberscoop.com/supreme-court-save-database-voter-citizenship/
29•speckx•44m ago•20 comments

Amiga Screens: A Primer

https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/
109•msephton•12h ago•26 comments

Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/9/24/letterboxd-is-up-for-sale-and-a24-sony-and-the-new-yor...
16•crossroadsguy•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
385•sidharthkmenon•1d ago•127 comments

What About Rails?

https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails
266•jrochkind1•17h ago•167 comments

Typst makes big strides

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/
52•leephillips•3h ago•6 comments

Boards of Casio

https://www.ambionix.com/blog/boards-of-casio/
94•fidotron•10h ago•27 comments

CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2

https://www.safateam.com/intelligence-hub/research/technical-articles/cve-2025-13032-entering-and...
103•safateam•13h ago•27 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
538•jbotz•1d ago•267 comments

What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-analyze-college-football-like-the-cia
10•adam•6h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Hamilton – a no-internet Android health dashboard, named after my dog

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gads.hamilton&hl=en_US
7•hamilton_app•7h ago•11 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
416•an0malous•2d ago•460 comments

2DWillNeverDie

https://2dwillneverdie.com/
319•surprisetalk•3d ago•82 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io
396•iacguy•23h ago•211 comments

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
423•cisc•1d ago•772 comments

Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/09/25/astronomer-watches-starlink-satellites-sinking-to-...
17•whh•1h ago•2 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
307•verdagon•3d ago•48 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/