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Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system

https://www.payments.ca/canada-launches-real-time-rail-bringing-247-payment-infrastructure-nation...
62•ocd•1h ago•42 comments

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

https://www.foldableflight.com
463•vismit2000•4h ago•82 comments

The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it

https://github.com/datareceipts/data-receipts/tree/main/109-gpu-pricing
52•datareceipts•1h ago•27 comments

I Saw Your HN Comment

https://joshstrange.com/2026/11/09/i-saw-your-hn-comment/
224•joshstrange•2h ago•152 comments

Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/10/29/humans-will-never-again-create-a-project-quite-like-...
399•edward•4h ago•336 comments

Y/N (YC S23) Is Hiring a Growth Lead to Distribute Superhuman A.I. Storytelling

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yn/jobs/TjDn3YZ-founding-growth-marketer
1•gabrielbirnbaum•1m ago

Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library

https://github.com/ikey4u/zebkit
60•Riiiiichard•2h ago•27 comments

Magenta solar panels may be agrivoltaics' cleverest trick yet

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/magenta-solar-panels-may-be-agrivoltaics-cleverest-t...
48•speckx•2h ago•11 comments

What is malloc doing, anyway?

https://benmandrew.com/articles/what-is-malloc-doing-anyway
124•benmandrew•5h ago•27 comments

Castration extends life span, but in a surprising way, mouse study suggests

https://www.science.org/content/article/castration-extends-life-span-surprising-way-mouse-study-s...
13•amelius•59m ago•6 comments

Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers

https://rbanffy.github.io/fun-with-big-computers/fun-with-vm370/
82•rbanffy•6h ago•17 comments

Isn't It Time for AVIF Everywhere?

https://www.michaelponders.com/2026/11/isnt-it-time-for-avif-everywhere.html
22•speckx•1d ago•18 comments

KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

https://ketchup3d.github.io/app/
679•dcoulmbe•18h ago•199 comments

Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14162
158•theanonymousone•9h ago•34 comments

Active Benchmarking

https://www.brendangregg.com/activebenchmarking.html
22•dboon•3d ago•1 comments

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

https://shubs.io/unlocking-any-car-from-x-brand-in-most-of-the-world/
553•infosecau•16h ago•298 comments

Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing

https://longreads.com/2026/11/05/time-capsules-ashley-stimpson/
65•ohjeez•2d ago•51 comments

He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-yogurt-shop-killer-who-wasnt/
54•gmays•2d ago•26 comments

I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists

https://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-b...
484•matteoraso•17h ago•830 comments

Declarative Dragging

https://declarative-dragging.github.io/
701•smusamashah•4d ago•89 comments

How Australia played the first music on a computer

https://www.pearcey.org.au/heritage/csirac/how-australia-played-the-worlds-first-music-on-a-compu...
21•Skyfall106•3d ago•7 comments

Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC

https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarc
501•xmddmx•21h ago•340 comments

Pigshell: Unix the Web

http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.4/
3•pbohun•1h ago•1 comments

Chimera Vocal Synth

https://chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app/
308•nmstoker•18h ago•56 comments

ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines

151•DenGorbachev•8h ago•49 comments

Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/quasi-logarithmic-kitchen-timer
88•surprisetalk•4d ago•25 comments

Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software

https://psalm.dev/articles/psalm-7
71•danogentili•1d ago•38 comments

Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster

https://github.com/OmniJev/Flide
95•unikcc•12h ago•23 comments

Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming

https://duxlabs.dev/
329•indigodaddy•21h ago•131 comments

Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware

https://leosmith.wtf/blog/not-so-secure-boot.html
35•p4p1•7h ago•10 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/