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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap

https://blog.liampwll.com/posts/bend_vibe_coding/
227•LiamPowell•2h ago•138 comments

An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20804
49•wek•1h ago•4 comments

AI chatbots becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-chatbots-are-becoming-experts-changing-people-s-minds-...
25•rbanffy•51m ago•20 comments

I don't like passkeys

https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys
247•ethanhawksley•2h ago•205 comments

ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

https://tokenstead.ai/guides/zcode-silent-git-history-upload
201•cdnsteve•3h ago•42 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
287•ilreb•4h ago•174 comments

The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands

https://gods.art/articles/equation_shadows
25•vismit2000•2d ago•3 comments

Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/15/subnormal-floating-point-numbers-are-expensive-on-intel-process...
44•zdw•2d ago•26 comments

Jemalloc 5.4.0

https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/releases/tag/5.4.0
242•gkfasdfasdf•10h ago•59 comments

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in...
518•pluc•4h ago•422 comments

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us
1•atarus•2h ago

Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/warren-buffett-berkshire-chairman.html
129•saimiam•3h ago•94 comments

If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24704177
21•ashergill•2h ago•34 comments

Replacing Pull Requests with Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/delta-public-beta
89•vquemener•2d ago•41 comments

The scourge of x86 emulation

https://fex-emu.com/Scourge-of-emulation/
204•dagmx•10h ago•54 comments

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b
508•JonSchneider•17h ago•159 comments

Astra for Law

https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/
534•vertigoruntime•18h ago•638 comments

Show HN: Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos

https://juandecos.github.io/TurboZip/vortex.html
41•chaostaco•4d ago•3 comments

Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

https://bend-lang.com/
535•nicolas-siplis•17h ago•265 comments

Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flash
281•jjcm•15h ago•100 comments

Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
667•bookofjoe•22h ago•177 comments

Wax motor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor
473•mhb•2d ago•87 comments

When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader

https://crocidb.com/post/when-the-fractional-part-of-a-float-fixes-your-shader/
75•vinhnx•2d ago•11 comments

Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02
615•my123•2d ago•240 comments

Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

https://linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/pre-greek/
117•axiologist•11h ago•56 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
236•joeriddles•16h ago•163 comments

A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos

https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai
395•Handy-Man•11h ago•168 comments

Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dr-julius-neubronner-s-miniature-pigeon-camera/
22•vitonsky•3d ago•0 comments

Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)

https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3.8-27B/
89•syntaxing•12h ago•25 comments

Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

https://www.netnod.se/blog/telstra-outage-night-network-decided-year-was-2006
81•TMWNN•13h ago•31 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/