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Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
287•DamnInteresting•2d ago•76 comments

Notes from the SF Peptide Scene

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/notes-from-the-sf-peptide-scene
8•theahura•43m ago•1 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
109•Eridanus2•6h ago•49 comments

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
265•speckx•3d ago•151 comments

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/
36•NordStreamYacht•4d ago•1 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
118•helloplanets•7h ago•47 comments

Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
55•ragojose•2d ago•9 comments

Vercel April 2026 security incident

https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident
61•colesantiago•1h ago•18 comments

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

https://www.theverge.com/tech/913765/adobe-rivals-free-creative-software-app-updates
36•tambourine_man•1h ago•16 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
175•mfiguiere•2d ago•36 comments

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
364•rbanffy•18h ago•159 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-w...
360•gnabgib•20h ago•346 comments

Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-private-whatsapp-5HjdXwr_2/
102•aa_is_op•2h ago•69 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
568•anabranch•23h ago•545 comments

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

125•modelcroissant•6h ago•59 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
378•NelsonMinar•23h ago•97 comments

Binary GCD

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/gcd/#binary-gcd
33•tosh•6h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
19•teamchong•4h ago•11 comments

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break

https://daverupert.com/2026/04/more-talk-less-grok/
15•Brajeshwar•52m ago•8 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
471•RickJWagner•1d ago•443 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
132•signa11•12h ago•40 comments

Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List

https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-overrules-core-committers-to-put-akismet-on-wordpr...
15•mooreds•1h ago•5 comments

It's cool to care (2025)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/
53•surprisetalk•4d ago•27 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
98•tyleo•3d ago•47 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
433•f_r_d•1d ago•132 comments

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

https://vlad.website/binary-dependencies-identifying-the-hidden-packages-we-all-depend-on/
46•PaulHoule•2d ago•8 comments

Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

https://joearms.github.io/published/2014-06-25-minimal-viable-program.html
9•bachmeier•3d ago•2 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
837•yusufusta•1d ago•415 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
175•larve•4d ago•22 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
118•weaksauce•18h ago•43 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•12mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•12mo 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•12mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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/