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Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/humble-bundle-just-completely-killed-most-of-their-securi...
251•rdmuser•2h ago•126 comments

Jane Street: Socratic Tutor

https://github.com/janestreet/agent_skills/blob/master/socratic-tutor/SKILL.md
127•tosh•1d ago•32 comments

93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
412•zenincognito•10h ago•54 comments

Tim Peters has died

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028
1168•ayhanfuat•1d ago•131 comments

Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cve-2026-119618-rce-apache-http-server-vulnerability
183•soheilpro•7h ago•79 comments

AWS emulator

https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator
838•super_linear•15h ago•233 comments

A live tree of systemd jobs on the boot console

https://codeberg.org/wvhulle/bootvine
18•orhunp_•2d ago•1 comments

Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
990•jbredeche•10h ago•1334 comments

I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden

https://jatorre.github.io/garden/
63•jatorre•3d ago•28 comments

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/
487•mbac32768•16h ago•236 comments

Gemini Decisions API

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/
423•iamdelirium•14h ago•127 comments

United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/
546•herpderperator•11h ago•537 comments

Lock Your GitHub Actions

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/lock-github-actions/
249•gslin•11h ago•47 comments

Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore

https://devonestes.com/bad-ideas-that-arent-bad-anymore
56•sevenseacat•6h ago•32 comments

I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

https://www.getlazarus.org/forums/topic/17/
34•sysrpl•3h ago•7 comments

Darling Development Update – Q4 2026

https://blog.darlinghq.org/2026/11/08/development-update-q4-2026/
26•tech234a•4h ago•5 comments

Emacs in the Age of Magic

https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt
223•ggcr•12h ago•100 comments

A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs

https://github.com/tylertms/Stela
104•iceboundrock•10h ago•41 comments

The Utah Teapot

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
128•cobbal•13h ago•32 comments

Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marian-wawrzeniecki/
26•lermontov•3d ago•6 comments

Did Life Begin in an RNA World?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-life-begin-in-an-rna-world-20261109/
60•acossta•2d ago•24 comments

The Lost World of Aquaterra

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/12/aquaterra-ancient-human-migration/689029/
7•ag8•15h ago•0 comments

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?

https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site
985•eyvindn•21h ago•358 comments

Lean Grimoire

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/11/lean-grimoire/
34•smilelamp•6h ago•5 comments

Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

https://av.github.io/safe-sand/
373•everlier•19h ago•71 comments

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/faster-retrieval
207•zerop•16h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt
236•brownrout•17h ago•94 comments

Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference

https://github.com/huawei-csl/MACaQ
100•thefox96•12h ago•25 comments

Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

https://blog.kate.land/posts/using-voltage-glitching-to-unlock-the-a100/
299•lae•22h ago•115 comments

Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?

https://nathan.rs/posts/weight-space-lp/
276•emschwartz•20h ago•38 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/