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LAPD Helicopter Tracker with Real-Time Operating Costs

https://lapdhelicoptertracker.com/
60•polalavik•56m ago•47 comments

Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html
306•TingPing•5h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

https://wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0
378•a-fadil•6h ago•131 comments

Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons

https://www.molecularist.com/2025/11/did-qualcomm-kill-arduino-for-good.html
262•felineflock•7h ago•92 comments

The Untold History of Arduino

https://arduinohistory.github.io/
21•davikr•1h ago•2 comments

You can make PS2 games in JavaScript

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/you-can-now-make-ps2-games-in-javascript
204•tosh•6h ago•42 comments

Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview

https://stevejobsarchive.com/stories/pixar-early-days
43•sanj•2h ago•1 comments

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
235•todsacerdoti•8h ago•160 comments

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most

https://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/
24•dnetesn•1w ago•7 comments

Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Global Memory Tightening

https://www.buysellram.com/blog/samsungs-memory-price-surge-sends-shockwaves-through-the-global-d...
54•redohmy•6d ago•42 comments

Tuxedo Computers Cancels Snapdragon X1 Linux Laptop

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Discontinuation-of-ARM-notebooks-with-Snapdragon-X-Elite-SoC.t...
38•Venn1•3h ago•8 comments

Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-with-cosines.html
99•hprotagonist•5h ago•23 comments

Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite

https://www.morling.dev/blog/building-durable-execution-engine-with-sqlite/
88•ingve•1d ago•29 comments

Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths

https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans
83•tobr•1w ago•28 comments

We remain alive also in a dead internet

https://slavoj.substack.com/p/why-we-remain-alive-also-in-a-dead-954
49•achierius•2h ago•34 comments

FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/21/fawk-llms-can-write-a-language-interpreter.html
193•todsacerdoti•12h ago•173 comments

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI

https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3
342•mseri•16h ago•110 comments

Pivot Robotics (YC W24) Is Hiring for an Industrial Automation Hardware Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pivot-robotics/jobs/7xG9Dc6-mechanical-engineer-controls
1•vigneshrajmohan•6h ago

Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/20/prozac-no-better-than-placebo-for-treating-childr...
171•pseudolus•23h ago•219 comments

Making a Small RPG

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/making-a-small-rpg
149•ibobev•9h ago•28 comments

Command Lines

https://www.wreflection.com/p/command-lines-ai-coding
45•nowflux•6h ago•6 comments

The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/senior-caregiving-labor.html
36•toomuchtodo•2h ago•12 comments

XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox

https://www.xbox-scene.info/articles/announcing-xbmc-40-for-the-original-xbox-r64/
114•zdw•7h ago•59 comments

Homeschooling hits record numbers

https://reason.com/2025/11/19/homeschooling-hits-record-numbers/
153•bilsbie•22h ago•442 comments

It's hard to build an oscillator

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/its-hard-to-build-an-oscillator
208•chmaynard•15h ago•83 comments

EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627423
84•justin-reeves•9h ago•75 comments

Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/science/bees-visual-stimulus-study-scli-intl
178•Brajeshwar•6d ago•103 comments

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same

https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust-boom-why-should-ai-be-different/
79•speckx•2h ago•94 comments

How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table

https://taylor.town/pg-task
33•ostler•4h ago•14 comments

I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-converted-a-rotary-phone-into-a-meeting-handset/
150•todsacerdoti•1w ago•68 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/