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The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/
37•userbinator•1h ago•4 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/
24•zX41ZdbW•1h ago•0 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/
83•boilerupnc•4h ago•22 comments

The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer

https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/
76•andsoitis•4h ago•45 comments

I Dream of Quieter Computing

https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/
52•Sir_Twist•5h ago•22 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-netwo...
42•taubek•54m ago•18 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917
293•felineflock•13h ago•102 comments

Scrap (2006)

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
366•tosh•13h ago•195 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/
56•cocacola1•6h ago•13 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html
375•jemoka•16h ago•114 comments

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

https://hister.org/
318•auraham•4d ago•77 comments

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun
85•stared•9h ago•26 comments

RF Cafe

https://www.rfcafe.com/
192•gregsadetsky•4d ago•32 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing
34•rznicolet•13h ago•26 comments

typ.ing

https://typ.ing/
249•bookofjoe•4d ago•78 comments

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/
150•olalonde•1d ago•50 comments

Thinking in Python

https://thinkinginpython.com/
141•pjacotg•13h ago•29 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/
223•signa11•17h ago•116 comments

NetBSD and my life (2005)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html
118•gnyeki•12h ago•28 comments

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data

https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
135•grappler•2d ago•19 comments

A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/
183•speckx•1d ago•201 comments

Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)

https://www.pianoify.net/
39•jardy•1d ago•8 comments

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

https://munderdiffl.in/
276•simonpure•21h ago•118 comments

New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/
197•pentagrama•18h ago•130 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/
88•speckx•13h ago•12 comments

Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

https://www.lambda-symbolics.com/autolith
121•vismit2000•2d ago•48 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi
134•asdefghyk•21h ago•65 comments

What's in a PowerPoint File?

https://editide.com/blog/what-is-a-pptx-file/
80•danielochoa0620•3d ago•42 comments

Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/world/europe/poland-estonia-cryptocurrency.html
29•ilamont•3h ago•7 comments

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
397•underdeserver•2d ago•513 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/