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1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave"

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
127•stephen-hill•3d ago•15 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
341•calcifer•8h ago•190 comments

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
675•elffjs•22h ago•669 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
44•ingve•3h ago•6 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
39•marvinborner•3h ago•14 comments

How to Implement an FPS Counter

https://vplesko.com/posts/how_to_implement_an_fps_counter.html
80•vplesko•3d ago•15 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
30•mariuz•3h ago•9 comments

A Man Who Invented the Future

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future
40•apollinaire•3d ago•9 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
170•rbanffy•13h ago•69 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
107•arkadiuss•3d ago•18 comments

Panipat: The Rise of the Mughals

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals
19•Thevet•3d ago•10 comments

Commenting and Approving Pull Requests

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/
6•jwworth•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf
135•najmuzzaman•5h ago•63 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
156•andsoitis•3d ago•78 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
474•alcazar•23h ago•115 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
234•Ariarule•3d ago•44 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
225•pigeons•13h ago•32 comments

Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
19•keepamovin•3h ago•13 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
83•colinprince•3d ago•1 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
279•hhh•18h ago•84 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
212•wise_blood•3d ago•66 comments

PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology

https://nikomc.com/2026/04/22/pcr/
63•mailyk•2d ago•8 comments

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01
97•alash3al•13h ago•47 comments

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
289•jamie-simon•20h ago•123 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
95•signor_bosco•14h ago•42 comments

Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/
87•shankysingh•13h ago•2 comments

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email
212•maguay•2d ago•174 comments

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
168•andsoitis•10h ago•45 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424
1982•impact_sy•1d ago•1511 comments

Work with the garage door up (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
173•jxmorris12•3d ago•120 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/