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Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout
108•Cider9986•2h ago•16 comments

Magnifica Humanitas

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
1082•theletterf•9h ago•480 comments

Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas"

https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical
31•Philpax•55m ago•22 comments

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-ag...
182•rbanffy•1h ago•95 comments

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/
107•xngbuilds•5h ago•34 comments

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month

https://eualternative.eu/guides/bootstrapper-free-tier-eu-stack/
85•sparkling•1h ago•19 comments

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

https://www.trychert.com
39•garygao•4h ago•142 comments

Everyone Against Us (2023)

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/april-2023/everyone-against-us/
14•NaOH•5d ago•2 comments

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberatta...
216•jruohonen•6h ago•53 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave
1•adchurch•1h ago

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

https://futurumgroup.com/insights/2-billion-chips-act-investment-in-quantum-bets-on-ibms-300mm-su...
114•rbanffy•10h ago•43 comments

Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic

https://fortune.com/2026/05/24/alaska-oil-revival-energy-investment-arctic-drilling-national-petr...
27•Brajeshwar•1h ago•17 comments

CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17892
14•chrsw•4d ago•0 comments

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html
145•rickcarlino•3d ago•52 comments

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/
285•kelseyfrog•2d ago•141 comments

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)

https://www.tmj4.com/news/racine-county/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-plans-for-244-acre-data-center-in...
147•cdrnsf•6h ago•118 comments

Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality

https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/
7•rmason•24m ago•0 comments

Founder of 7/11 Japan, Toshifumi Suzuki, has died at age 93

https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/S-Z/Suzuki-Toshifumi-1932.html
12•L_Rahman•3h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1
485•pantelisk•1d ago•108 comments

He Lost It at the Movies

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/he-lost-it-at-the-movies/
24•tintinnabula•4d ago•13 comments

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
673•Alifatisk•1d ago•267 comments

The analog computer museum's online library

https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/library.html
18•nill0•2d ago•0 comments

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/
121•azhenley•3d ago•40 comments

Migrating from Go to Rust

https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
418•jabits•1d ago•421 comments

The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

https://buttondown.com/blog/brazil-fermilab-email
41•maguay•4d ago•17 comments

AI errno(2) values

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ai-errno.html
98•zdw•3d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

https://www.tinyvolt.com/geomatic
55•nivter•11h ago•13 comments

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/
173•michaelsbradley•2d ago•39 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
640•dougdude3339•4d ago•98 comments

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/EmailPackagesNotes
48•ankitg12•5d ago•4 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/