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Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
251•allinonai•6h ago•151 comments

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
88•Eric_Gullichsen•3h ago•8 comments

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
215•mdp2021•1d ago•209 comments

Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/
7•iheatuchriswogu•1h ago•2 comments

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448
53•nanochess•3d ago•22 comments

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
339•tosh•10h ago•139 comments

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/
58•amrrs•6h ago•44 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
343•RobotToaster•13h ago•55 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
20•debo_•2h ago•12 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
118•sysrpl•8h ago•24 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
146•gmays•1d ago•87 comments

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

https://github.com/finereli/whatsapp-mcp
52•zoozla•5h ago•35 comments

How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base
16•gmays•3h ago•1 comments

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use

https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
102•dom96•1d ago•78 comments

PalmOS Lemmings

https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-lemmings
99•memalign•9h ago•23 comments

The DNS Museum

https://dns.museum
10•zdw•2d ago•0 comments

"Traditional, but Puzzling"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/traditional-but-puzzling/
26•colinprince•2d ago•3 comments

One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

https://quentinkaiser.be/security/2026/10/16/one-parser-two-bugs/
55•zoobab•2d ago•9 comments

16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1WYyO2jdY
40•oliculipolicula•4d ago•18 comments

What the heck is /pkg?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/18/what-the-heck-is-pkg
24•GavinAnderegg•9h ago•9 comments

The First Candid

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-candid
48•Thevet•2d ago•11 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
146•hnisjafx40•12h ago•106 comments

"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/math-ai-terence-tao.html
110•vinipolicena•2d ago•182 comments

A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

https://verdagon.dev/blog/reverse-borrow-checking
28•verdagon•15h ago•4 comments

Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional

https://www.404media.co/watch-footage-of-the-flock-search-a-judge-ruled-unconstitutional/
23•anigbrowl•1h ago•7 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html
93•pwg•10h ago•33 comments

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_doma...
462•sashk•10h ago•225 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
177•_Microft•16h ago•13 comments

SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
115•stmw•4d ago•41 comments

Sanity's Edge – A voice BBS from 1994

https://sanitys-edge.shouden.us
10•indigodaddy•2h ago•0 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/