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PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/
47•jonbaer•1h ago•6 comments

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

https://beyondloom.com/decker/
221•tosh•7h ago•51 comments

We have proof automation now

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2026/07/26/zstd-lean.html
65•zdw•4h ago•8 comments

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-firs...
175•saaaaaam•7h ago•79 comments

Teaching Kids Forth

https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/
46•rbanffy•3h ago•12 comments

Design is compromise

https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise
190•ankitg12•9h ago•72 comments

Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg

https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation
68•xterminal•5h ago•36 comments

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/introduction-to-data-oriented-design.pdf
101•tosh•7h ago•32 comments

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html
116•eecc•3h ago•54 comments

Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

https://swag.htmx.org/en-cad/products/htmx-4-the-game
352•rcy•13h ago•109 comments

Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth

https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-debris-atmosphere-burn-up
39•marc__1•4h ago•23 comments

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

https://github.com/gmrandazzo/CheapSecurity
100•zeldone•9h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0

https://portzero.net/
6•octopoc•1h ago•2 comments

How to Block Some of the Bots

https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260606-How-To-Block-Some-Of-The-Bots/
79•Bender•6h ago•87 comments

How to Write English Prose

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-write-english-prose
67•geneticdrifts•8h ago•36 comments

I Championed Prediction Markets. Look What They've Become

https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/i-championed-prediction-markets-look
8•NomNew•1h ago•14 comments

How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster

https://astgrep.com/blog/tree-sitter-rust-rewrite
67•herrington_d•7h ago•10 comments

Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis
176•AbuAssar•13h ago•39 comments

Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used

https://fontsinuse.com/
8•open_•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

https://blackhole.plav.in
4•aplavin•3d ago•0 comments

The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-new-ai-superpowers-focus-and
142•mooreds•12h ago•44 comments

The relay market powering token resellers and fraud

https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market
151•mlenhard•10h ago•92 comments

I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/i-wanted-a-clock-that-never-needed-setting-things-escalated/
46•lee_ars•3d ago•42 comments

I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music

https://pentaton.app/blog/2026-07-12-introducing-pentaton-lp/
172•interfeco•3d ago•35 comments

Kill The Cookie Banner

https://killthecookiebanner.eu/
819•rapnie•13h ago•400 comments

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf]

https://faculty.lsu.edu/kharms/files/flexner_1939.pdf
16•jxmorris12•3d ago•1 comments

History of John Backus's functional programming project [draft]

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/FP/
9•cwbuilds•2d ago•1 comments

Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means

https://www.popsci.com/science/whats-jimothy-raccoon-condition/
100•speckx•5d ago•52 comments

Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

https://sunflowersgame.com/
142•pompomsheep•12h ago•49 comments

Using sed to make indexes for books (1997)

https://www.pement.org/sed/make_indexes.txt
49•TMWNN•3d ago•9 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/