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Half-Baked Product

https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/
223•weli•3h ago•58 comments

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data
826•toomuchtodo•14h ago•129 comments

Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition

https://www.swiftsilentdeadly.com/blog/gun-mistakes-in-fiction-writing-handgun-edition
4•bushwart•18m ago•1 comments

Right to Local Intelligence

https://righttointelligence.org/
294•thoughtpeddler•11h ago•98 comments

CarPlay Is Additive

https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts
344•sprawl_•10h ago•453 comments

Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

https://wordgard.net/
33•indy•2h ago•10 comments

Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks...
118•nsoonhui•3h ago•73 comments

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc
294•Philpax•12h ago•57 comments

How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps

https://iinteractive.com/resources/blog/read-only
28•fortyseven•3d ago•7 comments

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438
487•IngoBlechschmid•20h ago•209 comments

The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
114•coloneltcb•9h ago•24 comments

Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-microns-vp-and-gm-of
10•zdw•2d ago•3 comments

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

https://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
285•vinhnx•5d ago•107 comments

Podman v6.0.0

https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/
551•soheilpro•21h ago•216 comments

Exapunks (2018)

https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
302•yu3zhou4•16h ago•101 comments

Immich 3.0

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29439
450•hashier•21h ago•227 comments

Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

https://js13kgames.com/games/q1k3
50•mortenjorck•6d ago•6 comments

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/onnx-embeddings-speedup/
60•snikolaev•7h ago•10 comments

Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74235-1
50•gscott•3d ago•20 comments

Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people

https://try.piecesof.me/
44•domo__knows•1d ago•42 comments

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html
7•hans_castorp•2h ago•1 comments

An American Privacy Emergency

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902
324•flowercalled•11h ago•97 comments

The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

https://blog.okturtles.org/2026/07/short-leash-ai-method/
143•Riseed•16h ago•180 comments

Superpowers 6

https://blog.fsck.com/2026/06/15/Superpowers-6/
160•seahorseemoji•2d ago•62 comments

FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/flow.html
76•sourdecor•20h ago•18 comments

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/co-locating-workflow-state-with-your-data
188•KraftyOne•16h ago•81 comments

Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

https://github.com/HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video
139•cortexosmain•16h ago•44 comments

Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow

https://growtheflowutah.org/laketracker/
107•cfowles•15h ago•37 comments

This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD

https://github.com/segaboy/vulkan-netbsd
111•segaboy81•16h ago•33 comments

A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time

https://petapixel.com/2026/06/24/a-special-wireless-free-nikon-camera-is-publicly-available-for-t...
68•HardwareLust•1w ago•57 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/