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The New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/
68•pentagrama•2h ago•47 comments

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

https://decodingvibes.com/blog/a-kantian-critique-of-sorry-by-justin-bieber/
104•altmanaltman•2h ago•39 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/
23•signa11•1h ago•3 comments

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

https://munderdiffl.in/
165•simonpure•6h ago•67 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi
73•asdefghyk•6h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection

https://static.laszlokorte.de/rotor-reflect/
17•laszlokorte•22h ago•2 comments

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy
129•sbulaev•3h ago•68 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/
343•matklad•19h ago•69 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
787•colinprince•1d ago•308 comments

Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/the-hollywood-creatives-training-ai-to-do-thei...
31•theanonymousone•1h ago•31 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
615•thepoet•23h ago•195 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
942•floathub•1d ago•1147 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
616•gavide•1d ago•81 comments

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
283•underdeserver•1d ago•361 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/
552•Jach•14h ago•399 comments

Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html
119•chilipepperhott•1d ago•67 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
1192•speckx•1d ago•374 comments

OTel isn’t going well

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/
180•hn_acker•22h ago•76 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
229•NKosmatos•21h ago•62 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/
189•tdullien•17h ago•86 comments

How Thailand Resisted Colonization

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-thailand-resisted-colonization/
79•karakoram•21h ago•26 comments

Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trad...
598•backlit4034•5h ago•537 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
349•dash2•3d ago•351 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
324•aakil•1d ago•206 comments

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025)

https://zeux.io/2025/09/30/billions-of-triangles-in-minutes/
56•corysama•21h ago•0 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
127•adamrezich•1d ago•57 comments

Embedded AI

https://nostarch.com/embedded-ai
16•0x54MUR41•6h ago•3 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
438•rcymerys•1d ago•448 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
156•signa11•5d ago•20 comments

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/how-early-life-stress-leaves-a-scar-inside-brain-cells/
118•gmays•1d ago•55 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/