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De-Brainrot Vacations

https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/
207•DanielVZ•2h ago•82 comments

bzip3

https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3
74•tosh•1h ago•21 comments

Keep Our Servers Running

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this...
718•sonicrocketman•11h ago•173 comments

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html
107•astroanax•5h ago•24 comments

Splash-free urinals (2025)

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false
117•u1hcw9nx•2h ago•55 comments

Live map of public transport in Belgium

https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/
115•coinfused•6h ago•51 comments

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/07/smartphone-makers-dont-bother-to-comply-with...
142•mdp2021•3h ago•62 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus
73•ankitg12•5h ago•22 comments

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-l...
639•chris_overseas•8h ago•322 comments

Impedance Matching (2017)

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238
50•muti•5h ago•16 comments

Simple Is Not Small

https://jyn.dev/simple-is-not-the-same-as-small/
23•zdw•3d ago•5 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
275•azhenley•15h ago•99 comments

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/xteink-e-reader-best-technology-years/688539/
115•samizdis•4h ago•98 comments

Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

72•maxim-fin•3h ago•34 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

218•imadtaieber•19h ago•188 comments

'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-123...
202•cianmm•5h ago•129 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
350•Cider9986•18h ago•220 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
311•xena•18h ago•156 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

210•jmpman•2d ago•130 comments

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud
36•sabatesduran•4d ago•14 comments

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/09/vmware-migration-reduces-tottenham-hotspur...
52•joozio•4h ago•27 comments

Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

https://chemisting.com/2026/09/02/why-are-there-no-flow-batteries-with-symmetric-ferrocyanide-ele...
41•DamonHD•5d ago•26 comments

Programming is Art

https://orchidfiles.com/programming-is-art/
147•theorchid•7h ago•144 comments

Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use

22•busymom0•4d ago•3 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
835•zImPatrick•21h ago•357 comments

Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

https://gettogether.dev
92•nchudleigh•13h ago•46 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/
92•_alternator_•16h ago•104 comments

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim
62•timgordontg•10h ago•32 comments

Show HN: Think Turing Complete, but you write the circuits in TypeScript (WIP)

https://play.simten.dev
18•charlesfrisbee•5d ago•6 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
101•ur-whale•18h 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/