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Molly(Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
132•DeepLogin•4h ago•84 comments

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
142•armcat•4h ago•62 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
120•signa11•7h ago•22 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
47•aatish•3d ago•4 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
514•input_sh•4h ago•311 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
146•wilbertliu•8h ago•114 comments

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/
73•fovc•3h ago•46 comments

Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/us/philadelphia-woman-delivery-robots-cec
33•dxs•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32

https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/
127•foOg•3d ago•36 comments

AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura

https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/
108•datascientist•1d ago•25 comments

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
522•domhudson•1d ago•365 comments

Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory

https://www.fabian.fyi/2026/10/zombie-hunt.html
8•optimiz•1d ago•1 comments

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
342•DHowett•21h ago•104 comments

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve
266•costco•2d ago•89 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
460•js4ever•1d ago•334 comments

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
295•raybb•3d ago•128 comments

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all...
5•WesleyGrant782•14m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Scribd Breached

286•x______________•12h ago•105 comments

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
336•nanna•23h ago•50 comments

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone...
178•dxs•19h ago•77 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
933•_chall•1d ago•537 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-...
238•taubek•1d ago•286 comments

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
273•dbreunig•22h ago•135 comments

Longitudinal Changes InWearable-Captured PhysiologyBefore Sudden Cardiac Death

https://www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.jaccas.2026.110397
52•brandonb•3d ago•24 comments

Keeping the Bonfires Lit

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/keeping-bonfires-lit
12•Petiver•1d ago•5 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
325•swq115•1d ago•59 comments

The federated code forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
309•zlliang•23h ago•90 comments

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris
133•dnetesn•19h ago•32 comments

Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

https://tng.episodle.com/
216•francisofascii•15h ago•67 comments

Why Did Meta Suspend a US Senate Candidate's Instagram in the Middle of a Rally?

https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account
46•ck2•2h ago•49 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/