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Epic Games announces Lore version control system

https://lore.org/
559•regnerba•3h ago•295 comments

Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/only-16-percent-of-americans-think-ai-will-have-a-positive-impa...
148•karakoram•1h ago•114 comments

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms...
95•giuliomagnifico•14h ago•59 comments

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
60•zachdive•2h ago•20 comments

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artif...
607•himata4113•9h ago•320 comments

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

https://wpvip.com/future-of-the-web-2026/
817•thm•6h ago•436 comments

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
230•schappim•7h ago•107 comments

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

https://www.science.org/content/article/french-physicist-and-media-star-loses-doctorate-after-pla...
96•bookofjoe•2h ago•76 comments

Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trellis-ai/jobs/Cg94htp-product-lead
1•macklinkachorn•1h ago

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch
88•brownrout•1h ago•49 comments

Want your images back? That'll be $5

https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars
502•lutr•5h ago•217 comments

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
35•gregpr07•1d ago•6 comments

TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code

https://www.greptile.com/blog/trex-code-execution
15•dakshgupta•2h ago•1 comments

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

https://github.com/rxi/microui
120•peter_d_sherman•6h ago•37 comments

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
259•microtonal•3h ago•168 comments

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/
67•kodesko•5h ago•18 comments

U.S. science is in chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/
292•presspot•8h ago•318 comments

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

https://johnowhitaker.github.io/inkwash/about
93•Yenrabbit•3d ago•17 comments

Hacker News but for independent blogs

https://bubbles.town/
419•headalgorithm•10h ago•137 comments

AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

https://openai.com/index/ai-chemist-improves-reaction/
9•ilreb•45m ago•1 comments

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline
199•BerislavLopac•3h ago•92 comments

Kirkland Roundabouts

https://kirklandroundabouts.com
92•DenisM•2d ago•62 comments

Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate

https://github.com/pbkx/deconvolution
17•rmi0•2d ago•0 comments

Image Compression

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/image-compression
94•vinhnx•3d ago•12 comments

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

https://github.com/evanklem/polypore
55•evanklem2004•2h ago•19 comments

Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/seventeen-camels-and-where-they-can-take-you/
7•ibobev•2d ago•0 comments

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

https://ghostinthedata.info/posts/2026/2026-06-13-human-connection-moat/
7•speckx•1h ago•1 comments

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

https://airfields-freeman.com/
122•wizardforhire•2d ago•32 comments

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook
158•e2e4•11h ago•132 comments

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

https://www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant
50•Redoubts•11h ago•90 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/