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Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months

https://www.briefs.co/news/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months/
151•lwhsiao•1h ago•152 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

111•whoishiring•2h ago•108 comments

whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
53•peter_d_sherman•2h ago•11 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

59•whoishiring•2h ago•106 comments

Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests

https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-l...
135•loteck•1h ago•48 comments

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
58•deater•2h ago•6 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
90•ingve•5h ago•19 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

74•proberts•2h ago•90 comments

Your Website Is Not for You

https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/
207•pumbaa•6h ago•138 comments

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

https://keepthingsopen.com
86•tvararu•2h ago•5 comments

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

https://github.com/intel/auto-round
76•lastdong•8h ago•13 comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
172•giuliomagnifico•2d ago•102 comments

Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

https://github.com/leox255/loopsy
19•todience•7h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

85•mayerwin•7h ago•23 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
447•j12y•1d ago•166 comments

OpenWarp

https://openwarp.zerx.dev
165•zero-lab•15h ago•121 comments

Grok 4.3

https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3
319•simianwords•9h ago•421 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
429•ilamont•2d ago•236 comments

Maladaptive Frugality

https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/
178•herbertl•2d ago•196 comments

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax
100•smaddrellmander•3d ago•40 comments

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
285•sleepingNomad•8h ago•106 comments

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

https://x.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551
329•andruby•6h ago•253 comments

If I could make my own GitHub

https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/
111•matricaria•1d ago•127 comments

How an oil refinery works

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
500•chmaynard•1d ago•170 comments

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm
32•tosh•5h ago•27 comments

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168
1273•elmean•1d ago•696 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/
327•elvis70•1d ago•74 comments

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/
59•ndsipa_pomu•2h ago•45 comments

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-auth...
139•zikani_03•18h ago•52 comments

Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle
703•Cider9986•21h ago•301 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/