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Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-t...
521•mtud•4h ago•161 comments

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx
151•redundantly•3h ago•57 comments

Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context

https://github.com/google-research/timesfm
59•codepawl•1h ago•25 comments

Artemis II is not safe to fly

https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
212•idlewords•4h ago•128 comments

Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens

https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient
247•killme2008•5h ago•94 comments

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/jezgwo5-ai-ml-research-engineer
1•svee•6m ago

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
530•speckx•12h ago•169 comments

Do your own writing

https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
479•karimf•18h ago•177 comments

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests/
83•_____k•1h ago•32 comments

Android Developer Verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification-rolling-out-to-a...
221•ingve•9h ago•213 comments

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk
137•fogus•4d ago•10 comments

How to turn anything into a router

https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
653•yabones•17h ago•228 comments

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
287•HughParry•11h ago•132 comments

Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly

https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-re...
41•madars•3h ago•6 comments

Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/
28•y1n0•4h ago•11 comments

Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-march-30-2026-accidental-cdn-caching
45•cebert•5h ago•16 comments

Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage

https://www.techzine.eu/news/devices/140058/sony-halts-memory-card-shipments-due-to-nand-shortage/
28•methuselah_in•1h ago•7 comments

Bird brains (2023)

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
313•DiffTheEnder•17h ago•195 comments

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

https://www.opengridworks.com
92•jonbraun•9h ago•11 comments

Rock Star: Reading the Rosetta Stone

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/original-rock-star
9•samizdis•2d ago•0 comments

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

https://www.codingfont.com/
389•nvahalik•15h ago•194 comments

Agents of Chaos

https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html
96•luu•3d ago•12 comments

Unit: A self-replicating Forth mesh agent running in a browser tab

https://davidcanhelp.github.io/unit/
26•DavidCanHelp•4d ago•1 comments

Oscar Reutersvärd (2021)

https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/about-escher/escher-today/oscar-reutersvard
17•layer8•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent

https://github.com/virpo/pegboard
33•virpo•7h ago•6 comments

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
290•mihau•3d ago•58 comments

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

https://web.ua.es/en/actualidad-universitaria/2026/marzo2026/23-31/ua-researchers-find-3-500-year...
101•geox•3d ago•12 comments

Vulnerability research is cooked

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/
158•pedro84•12h ago•107 comments

One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie

https://apnews.com/article/cleveland-salt-mine-winter-road-0daf091e3d56f65766bcf6a597683893
8•1659447091•2d ago•6 comments

R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-repla...
50•joozio•20h ago•61 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•11mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•11mo 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•11mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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/