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Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/
84•tmp10423288442•1h ago•28 comments

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/
58•wxw•1h ago•23 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
874•Philpax•11h ago•438 comments

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
467•nderjung•7h ago•90 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html
51•totetsu•2h ago•24 comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
962•onderkalaci•12h ago•288 comments

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

https://isgithubcooked.com/
172•toomanyrichies•5h ago•94 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
303•Velocifyer•7h ago•135 comments

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-t...
132•dsalzman•5h ago•67 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next
617•tosh•12h ago•197 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
40•zakshay•4h ago•10 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
39•pizzaiolo•2h ago•6 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
161•amrrs•5h ago•201 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-ve...
191•gedankenstuecke•7h ago•45 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/
82•tilt•5h ago•45 comments

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-i...
79•porridgeraisin•4h ago•56 comments

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23
254•sss111•7h ago•325 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
311•motownphilly•11h ago•156 comments

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-met...
156•leopoldj•8h ago•40 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/
26•sfryxell•8h ago•10 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
337•GavinAnderegg•10h ago•129 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228
62•matt_d•4h ago•9 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
235•speckx•10h ago•158 comments

Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

https://www.risklytics.ai/
43•AlexRisio•9h ago•17 comments

The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

https://thetariffcost.com/
167•mikestorrent•7h ago•180 comments

Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-leg...
577•mykowebhn•9h ago•195 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make
162•LVB•9h ago•149 comments

It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/
173•zazuke•9h ago•92 comments

US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616
145•unfocso•9h ago•169 comments

YouTube Format IDs

https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa
100•ksec•7h ago•51 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/