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Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-...
44•hhs•1h ago•19 comments

Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
20•stock_toaster•44m ago•2 comments

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

https://github.com/searxng/searxng
109•theanonymousone•3h ago•26 comments

The circuit that lets your brain think and see

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/circuit-lets-your-brain-think-and-see
16•hhs•1h ago•1 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/
34•programLyrique•1h ago•4 comments

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge
31•zdw•1h ago•5 comments

Amsterdam invented the fire department

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/
25•zdw•1h ago•6 comments

Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models

https://chenliu-1996.github.io/projects/LM-Dispersion/
15•E-Reverance•1h ago•3 comments

GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd
39•latchkey•2h ago•9 comments

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
256•livestyle•9h ago•121 comments

Espionage Against the European Parliament

https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/
248•ledoge•3h ago•62 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/YTJcFwr-marketing-lead
1•akh•3h ago

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/index.html
38•measurablefunc•3h ago•5 comments

We put a Redis server inside our runtime

https://encore.dev/blog/redis-runtime
13•eandre•2d ago•5 comments

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spike
21•cubefox•2h ago•6 comments

FreeBSD ate my RAM

https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/
80•theanonymousone•5h ago•32 comments

Africans Are Turning to Starlink

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/07/02/africans-are-turning-to-starlink
79•bookofjoe•3h ago•71 comments

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik

https://www.fide.com/fide-ethics-disciplinary-commission-issues-a-decision-in-case-involving-gm-v...
110•DarkContinent•7h ago•58 comments

Costco is the anti-Amazon

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/
261•bookofjoe•8h ago•247 comments

Factories are just rooms

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories
180•arbesman•8h ago•73 comments

Software, from First Principles

https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/
16•faza•2h ago•6 comments

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

https://ubuntu.com/blog/hunting-a-16-year-old-sqlite-bug-with-tla-is-dqlite-affected
163•peterparker204•3d ago•12 comments

GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card

https://gitfut.com
6•redbell•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)

https://github.com/kerlenton/mcpsnoop
45•kerlenton•7h ago•13 comments

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

https://wordgard.net/
255•indy•15h ago•90 comments

PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit
150•furkansahin•11h ago•85 comments

I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type
134•theanonymousone•6h ago•71 comments

A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

https://lyra.horse/blog/2026/06/reddit-spam-internals/
155•OuterVale•6d ago•56 comments

Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can...
527•ahlCVA•11h ago•97 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

123•yehiaabdelm•17h ago•149 comments
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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/