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Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/
246•root-parent•1h ago•73 comments

BBEdit 16

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit16.html
100•qaz_plm•1h ago•15 comments

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
203•speleo•3h ago•58 comments

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-arch...
93•jaredwiener•2h ago•22 comments

Flipper One – we need your help

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/
865•sandebert•8h ago•374 comments

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
181•asenna•5h ago•60 comments

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

https://www.thek6project.co.uk/
26•Kaibeezy•1h ago•10 comments

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
257•rbanffy•8h ago•123 comments

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
221•pseudolus•8h ago•68 comments

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

https://www.runtm.com/
38•gustrigos•3h ago•13 comments

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

1•philippemnoel•2h ago

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

17•adisingh13•2h ago•7 comments

Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/
64•pvtmert•2d ago•36 comments

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
501•sofumel•9h ago•421 comments

Bournegol???

https://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html
14•greyface-•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

https://freenet.org/
7•sanity•4h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

170•bojta-lepenye•6h ago•30 comments

What Is Happening to Publishing?

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publishing
50•benbreen•1d ago•21 comments

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

https://www.calculators.de/
36•ohjeez•3h ago•6 comments

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

https://fatgid.io/
73•WhyNotHugo•7h ago•30 comments

Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/
68•speckx•2h ago•26 comments

Michael Keating has died

https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026
76•speckx•5h ago•34 comments

Vivaldi 8.0

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/
274•OuterVale•12h ago•208 comments

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

https://rivet.dev/blog/2026-02-04-we-reverse-engineered-docker-sandbox-undocumented-microvm-api/
50•yakkomajuri•4h ago•7 comments

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

https://fabiensanglard.net/mtg/fun/
64•ibobev•6h ago•68 comments

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-do-godels-incompleteness-theorems-truly-mean-20260518/
115•baruchel•3d ago•50 comments

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into...
138•mattas•3h ago•178 comments

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]

https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf
10•tosh•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

https://github.com/helvesec/rmux
151•shideneyu•10h ago•73 comments

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

https://www.wired.com/story/a-bipartisan-amendment-would-end-police-license-plate-tracking-nation...
190•cdrnsf•6h ago•65 comments
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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/