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Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
50•vinhnx•1h ago•14 comments

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

https://vpd.ca/
178•LookAtThatBacon•3h ago•68 comments

TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins
71•jervant•3h ago•31 comments

Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27b
487•xenova•10h ago•178 comments

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-coo...
128•woodruffw•6h ago•76 comments

Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

https://www.starfleetmath.com/
75•colin7snyder•3h ago•20 comments

The Tower Keeps Rising

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/
385•cdrnsf•11h ago•175 comments

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left
286•Synthetic7346•10h ago•135 comments

Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]

https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull120.pdf
113•1vuio0pswjnm7•6h ago•65 comments

LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros

https://www.benjamin-bai.com/projects/lemario
68•kevinjosethomas•5h ago•8 comments

How I use HTMX with Go

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go
148•gnabgib•8h ago•36 comments

Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B

https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/data-centers-23-billion-electricity-bills/
116•measurablefunc•3h ago•65 comments

An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/DHCPServerAndScreamingHost
34•speckx•4d ago•6 comments

The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/matt-campbell-cambodia-looted-antiquities-2779870
6•derbOac•2d ago•1 comments

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an ancient astronomer

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02170-8
60•homarp•16h ago•16 comments

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing
460•shintoist•16h ago•518 comments

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/microsoft-patches-a-record-570-security-flaws/
59•robin_reala•6h ago•29 comments

I'm a USB-C Maximalist

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/
201•speckx•12h ago•303 comments

The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

https://2b2t.place/1million
179•_____k•3d ago•61 comments

The kids with phones are alright

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/the-kids-with-phones-are-alright/
153•JumpCrisscross•3d ago•109 comments

Probably check on your smart appliances

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/check-your-smart-tv/
38•xena•6h ago•15 comments

The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jg-ballard-illuminated-man-christopher-priest-nina-allan/
44•Caiero•1d ago•9 comments

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

https://gwern.net/guardian-angel
69•andsoitis•15h ago•12 comments

The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/open-source/zero-cost-fallacy-open-source-agentic-era
120•backlit4034•4d ago•97 comments

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-ai
401•yenniejun111•12h ago•401 comments

Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE

https://github.com/juggler-ai/juggler
200•julesrms•2d ago•82 comments

Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

https://www.verbaprima.com/
151•plicerin•12h ago•89 comments

Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring (Head of Security)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kontigo/jobs/uNttrlv-head-of-security
1•jecastillof•11h ago

Ambient Website Background Clouds

https://github.com/paradise-runner/background-clouds
12•dividedcomet•5d ago•1 comments

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/
753•MrVandemar•3d ago•456 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/