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Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
178•etothet•1h ago•228 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
418•formerly_proven•4h ago•214 comments

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
119•acossta•2h ago•44 comments

An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air

https://eg2.haku.sh/
230•amrrs•3h ago•57 comments

New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
21•corvad•1h ago•12 comments

A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/a-visual-intro-to-complex-numbers
34•surprisetalk•2h ago•11 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
222•benbreen•8h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
109•janpmz•4h ago•55 comments

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspici...
285•helsinkiandrew•4h ago•125 comments

Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
96•nryoo•7h ago•39 comments

Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
237•recvonline•2h ago•115 comments

The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
352•jsomers•2d ago•101 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
630•ilreb•22h ago•348 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
814•Zeekaas•1d ago•922 comments

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
278•hurricanepootis•17h ago•151 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
650•prophittcorey•22h ago•280 comments

Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev

https://www.unsiloed.ai/blog/document-review-unsiloed-typesafe-jev
33•ritzaco•6h ago•7 comments

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas
195•khalidkhair•16h ago•69 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
237•pngmangi•17h ago•21 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
251•speckx•19h ago•123 comments

A Book That Will Never Be Read

https://forbetterscience.com/2026/09/22/a-book-that-will-never-be-read/
10•jruohonen•28m ago•3 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
390•djfergus•1d ago•105 comments

Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney
128•yanis_t•3h ago•90 comments

BB(10) > Graham's Number

https://github.com/jeff87654/busy-beaver/blob/main/BB10/1RB0RA_1LC1LF_1RD0LB_1RA1LE_1LI0LC_0RG1LD...
6•surprisetalk•2h ago•0 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
385•scrlk•1d ago•429 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
163•zdw•19h ago•32 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

148•vishnukool•22h ago•103 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
514•layer8•17h ago•410 comments

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft
103•bherbruck•14h ago•22 comments

A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms

https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms
208•mochomocha•12h ago•130 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/