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Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1340•Tiberium•12h ago•822 comments

Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?

65•mellosty•32m ago•31 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1463•kuberwastaken•19h ago•395 comments

I Returned My iPhone Duo

https://codakuma.com/i-returned-my-duo/
21•ricobecks•49m ago•27 comments

Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

https://cuis.st/
114•theanonymousone•3d ago•16 comments

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
139•nvmdbljstm•2d ago•12 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
196•cherioo•9h ago•123 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
126•surprisetalk•1d ago•16 comments

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-...
25•benbreen•2d ago•6 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
283•sandslash•12h ago•100 comments

'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/30/uk-house-price-growth-crypto-industry-6bn-b...
41•tosh•2h ago•30 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•2h ago

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial-analysis-v5-and-the-benchmarkers
7•6thbit•1d ago•0 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
209•airinei•13h ago•15 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
434•ea016•17h ago•149 comments

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
89•falperc•10h ago•28 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
477•ibobev•18h ago•251 comments

Python on My Wrist

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/python-on-my-wrist.html
45•roywashere•3d ago•6 comments

Pico CSS is no longer maintained

https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754
131•henrid•7h ago•58 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

68•shong0504•17h ago•21 comments

A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)

https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/
120•simonebrunozzi•11h ago•29 comments

Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html
2976•j4mie•14h ago•626 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
283•rokostik•21h ago•401 comments

An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/27/an-illustrated-online-book-on-hewlett-packard-equipment/
18•sohkamyung•2d ago•4 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
199•ZeljkoS•1d ago•366 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow
134•johncassil•14h ago•100 comments

ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

https://elementary.codes
99•frizlab•12h ago•25 comments

Historical Scientific Instruments

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments
41•peteforde•2d ago•3 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
119•memalign•17h ago•9 comments

Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)

https://chengela.substack.com/p/should-a-medical-diagnosis-reshape
41•wyndham•11h ago•6 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/