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The Burning Man MOOP Map

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
434•speckx•6h ago•200 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
157•bsuh•3h ago•78 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders
76•instagraham•2h ago•15 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/
199•berlianta•5h ago•76 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4
168•tamnd•4h ago•53 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
31•flipped•47m ago•4 comments

Colored Shadow Penumbra

https://chosker.github.io/blog/colored-shadow-penumbra
11•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/
278•newsoftheday•4h ago•99 comments

Principles for agent-native CLIs

https://twitter.com/trevin/status/2051316002730991795
27•blumpy22•2h ago•8 comments

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00720-8
279•surprisetalk•6h ago•197 comments

PySimpleGUI 6

https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI
65•geophph•2d ago•22 comments

I want to live like Costco people

https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/
105•speckx•4h ago•244 comments

AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
126•thm•1h ago•102 comments

Nobody Reviews Compiler Output

https://skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_as_compiler
10•rzk•2d ago•14 comments

OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus1.html
46•zdw•1d ago•5 comments

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

https://predr.ag/blog/the-self-cancelling-subscription/
115•surprisetalk•5h ago•50 comments

RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust

https://ratex.lites.dev/
134•atilimcetin•3d ago•80 comments

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
574•whatisabcdefgh•22h ago•175 comments

Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-2...
178•speckx•4h ago•202 comments

Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally

https://github.com/ReviewStage/stage-cli
22•cpan22•4h ago•18 comments

MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gregoire-moq-msfts-00.html
46•mondainx•5h ago•12 comments

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/governgpt/jobs/hRyltS0-backend-engineer-thinking-systems
1•owalerys•8h ago

OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family

https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/
79•chabad360•1d ago•55 comments

Printing Blogs

https://fi-le.net/print/
24•fi-le•1d ago•5 comments

Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust
88•wojtczyk•14h ago•57 comments

Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)

https://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/83plus-bas/cherny/
162•suoken•2d ago•72 comments

How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability

https://blog.cloudflare.com/copy-fail-linux-vulnerability-mitigation/
72•mobeigi•6h ago•56 comments

ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters

https://firethering.com/zaya1-8b-open-source-math-coding-model/
69•steveharing1•11h ago•49 comments

ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03546
125•jonbaer•16h ago•69 comments

Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-view-from-mumbai-matchbook-graphic-design-130426
139•sahar_builds•3d ago•32 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/