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Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog
179•datadrivenangel•1h ago•71 comments

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

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
344•theanonymousone•3h ago•157 comments

War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0jke547r5o
11•meep_meep_meep•18m ago•2 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
128•f311a•3h ago•23 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
481•jcbhmr•7h ago•211 comments

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_1-release-notes
92•CameronBanga•3h ago•54 comments

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215
46•rochansinha•3h ago•10 comments

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/
130•synack•5h ago•40 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
332•joeriddles•1d ago•232 comments

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
143•HenryNdubuaku•21h ago•70 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
506•ilreb•12h ago•234 comments

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852
34•tomjakubowski•3h ago•13 comments

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589739-our-brain-evolved-from-two-primitive-nervous-systems...
91•Jimmc414•6h ago•49 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
91•ohjeez•1d ago•27 comments

Cyclomatic Complexity in C#

https://blog.ndepend.com/understanding-cyclomatic-complexity/
11•gone35•2d ago•3 comments

From Geometry to Algebra and Back Again: 4000 Years of Papers (2023) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRFfYQYGxE
15•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-infinite-loops
124•ibobev•1d ago•157 comments

A search-and-inference database from scratch in pure Zig

https://antfly.io/research/antfly-zig
37•kingcauchy•3d ago•13 comments

How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-spacex-streamlined-the-raptor
122•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•18 comments

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899
194•throw7•2h ago•54 comments

I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture

https://overreacted.io/how-i-vibed-a-proof-of-conways-conjecture/
190•m-hodges•7h ago•172 comments

Minimal Phone 2

https://minimalcompany.com/
139•nashashmi•20h ago•132 comments

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/
229•csmantle•15h ago•87 comments

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157
65•succinct_ideas•19h ago•9 comments

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us
1•atarus•10h ago

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
323•realsarm•4h ago•257 comments

Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?

https://www.ax-check.com/
27•0x63_Problems•1d ago•25 comments

Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-sea...
157•mmh0000•3h ago•118 comments

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-build-long-awaited-graph-sandwich-20260918/
60•ibobev•7h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing

https://scry.io/
38•Xyra•22h ago•16 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/