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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
202•DHowett•5h ago•53 comments

Sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust

https://www.firezone.dev/blog/introducing-sanstun
37•wh33zle•1h ago•2 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
711•_chall•16h ago•442 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
325•js4ever•8h ago•244 comments

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris
59•dnetesn•3h ago•13 comments

Infinite Mac: BeOS

https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html
78•ecliptik•3h ago•15 comments

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
162•raybb•3d ago•67 comments

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
166•dbreunig•6h ago•105 comments

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone...
57•dxs•3h ago•17 comments

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
195•nanna•7h ago•34 comments

The federated code forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
206•zlliang•7h ago•68 comments

France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/france-is-getting-download-tax-for-content-providers-%E2%82%AC0-...
56•bko•1h ago•31 comments

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/
133•apress•2h ago•72 comments

Linode Security Incident

https://status.linode.com/incidents/nt58zhx3pmgm
102•lacoolj•1h ago•51 comments

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve
6•costco•2d ago•0 comments

A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/11/02/a-pickpockets-guide-to-new-york
45•prismatic•3h ago•6 comments

Turning a solar power system into its own backup

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/turning-a-solar-power-system-into-its-own-backup/
22•PaulHoule•1d ago•7 comments

AO3 Down for Maintenance

https://www.otwstatus.org
64•idlewords•2h ago•9 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
255•swq115•13h ago•46 comments

Tree-mounted machines connect to web app to let users knock on wood remotely

https://www.designboom.com/technology/tree-mounted-machines-web-app-users-knock-on-wood-remotely/
53•surprisetalk•3d ago•24 comments

Building an AI-native engineering org

https://twitter.com/sgondala2/status/2115832070274723875
91•sgondala_ycapp•1d ago•121 comments

AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling
466•dorianniemiec•7h ago•342 comments

Bunny CDN Security Incident

https://status.bunny.net/incidents/p6gf1by9kr7m
183•SondreDag•4h ago•36 comments

Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning

https://research.google/blog/the-sleep-framework-a-new-way-for-llms-to-retain-knowledge-in-contin...
147•acossta•2d ago•12 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-...
74•taubek•9h ago•76 comments

Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary

https://sketch.wakeshift.ai/games/q5ucru
18•ericlevine•7h ago•7 comments

How do you take a picture of a black hole?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/
73•dverlaeckt80•13h ago•58 comments

GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pwxsjgnvrk6b
137•damontal•5h ago•58 comments

Tracks along the longest drive on another world

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/tracks-along-the-longest-drive-on-another-world/
52•shcallaway•22h ago•6 comments

Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261026-00/?p=112797/
117•ibobev•4d 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•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/