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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
660•vimarsh6739•7h ago•165 comments

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/
103•gnyeki•2h ago•39 comments

Grok Build is open source

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build
243•skp1995•5h ago•291 comments

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle...
35•andsoitis•2h ago•7 comments

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf
76•bilsbie•4h ago•28 comments

LLM Networking with MikroTik

https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html
43•gregsadetsky•3h ago•8 comments

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sour...
334•rvz•21h ago•205 comments

Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html
28•basilikum•2h ago•2 comments

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/
48•ninglor•2h ago•13 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-...
227•neomindryan•9h ago•150 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20
90•spacemarine1•6h ago•16 comments

Show HN: One More Letter

https://playonemoreletter.com/
21•hmate9•2h ago•18 comments

Command Line Interface Guidelines

https://clig.dev/
60•subset•3d ago•8 comments

Book prizes don't work how you think

https://rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/book-prizes-dont-work-how-you-think
62•samclemens•1d ago•35 comments

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

https://brainless.swerdlow.dev
86•benswerd•5h ago•17 comments

Voxatron

https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
58•lsferreira42•5h ago•19 comments

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

https://ramones.dev/posts/mental-health/
289•ramon156•14h ago•249 comments

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

https://dev.moe/en/3025
240•theanonymousone•12h ago•131 comments

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/
124•coolelectronics•4h ago•69 comments

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

https://clocks.dev
173•levmiseri•8h ago•36 comments

Job queues are deceptively tricky

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html
11•ingve•1d ago•2 comments

Designing APIs for Agents

https://www.freestyle.sh/blog/opinion/designing-apis-for-agents
47•benswerd•2d ago•21 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artie
1•tang8330•8h ago

P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

https://pairdrop.net/
28•halb•3h ago•13 comments

MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/micro-instrumentation-and-telemetry
31•BirAdam•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77
131•nonadhocproblem•9h ago•40 comments

Show HN: E-- – A language you dial between English and Python

https://github.com/frmoded/e--
9•OdedF•5d ago•10 comments

Towards a harness that can do anything

https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html
170•evakhoury•11h ago•85 comments

Free Remote Desktop Without Servers

https://github.com/Teylersf/freeremotedesk
3•pruufsocial•1h ago•1 comments

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

https://danq.me/2026/07/10/rescuing-7234-gifs/
98•birdculture•3d 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/