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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1
831•denysvitali•5h ago•797 comments

Hang on to Your Firefox

https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/hang-on-to-your-firefox
183•speckx•3h ago•89 comments

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

https://danluu.com/zitron/
318•jatins•4h ago•377 comments

Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

https://masteranza.github.io/weedout/
27•masteranza•1h ago•9 comments

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
199•timpera•3h ago•104 comments

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656
813•hexa555•13h ago•237 comments

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/08/23/Tektronix-TDS7104-Refurbishing.html
68•jwise0•3h ago•32 comments

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc
163•steveklabnik•5h ago•131 comments

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/
66•jithinraj•3h ago•23 comments

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/
267•HieronymusBosch•9h ago•97 comments

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

https://www.norirobotics.com/
109•AntonioLi•5h ago•38 comments

Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

https://hnmatchmaker.com/
27•all2•2h ago•11 comments

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
178•kikkupico•7h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s

https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream
128•carloslfu•6h ago•82 comments

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs

https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/
546•porridgeraisin•13h ago•147 comments

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga

https://moviescenemap.com/
137•Flightmussy•7h ago•28 comments

Sonic Pi

https://sonic-pi.net/
8•Bluestein•4d ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

176•whoishiring•8h ago•192 comments

Quill (YC W20) Is Hiring a Fullstack SWE

1•R_R•6h ago

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

https://lws.io/blog/my-local-model-setup/
12•raybb•1h ago•0 comments

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/work_items/1566
449•erikvanoosten•7h ago•192 comments

Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas
128•johnsutor•5h ago•24 comments

Make a Portable Wide-screen Mechanical TV

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mechanical-tv-2677767814
13•Brajeshwar•4d ago•1 comments

Fluorescent lamps (don't) have ears

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/fluorescent-lamps-dont-have-ears
16•zdw•2h ago•3 comments

Magic eye tube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube
68•peter_d_sherman•3d ago•22 comments

American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-mechanic-passes-away-100-record-80-years/
364•NaOH•3d ago•149 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

65•whoishiring•8h ago•223 comments

Specifications Don't Exist (2025)

https://www.galois.com/articles/specifications-dont-exist
40•surprisetalk•6d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Newton's Orchard – Browser-based space/gravity playground

https://newtonsorchard.app
15•andrewchilds•6h ago•1 comments

Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/
151•colinprince•3h ago•102 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/