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347•hggh•6h ago•51 comments

CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

https://www.copahost.com/blog/cpanels-black-week-three-new-vulnerabilities-patched-after-ransomwa...
24•ggallas•1h ago•12 comments

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

https://stonetools.ghost.io/pipedream-archimedes/
52•msephton•3h ago•15 comments

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
226•rbanffy•9h ago•85 comments

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
1356•anonymousiam•23h ago•491 comments

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
132•ColinWright•4h ago•80 comments

How LEDs are made (2014)

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all
94•smig0•2d ago•12 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
349•pretext•13h ago•210 comments

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html
17•susam•1h ago•0 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder
10•cuechan•49m ago•2 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
518•_alternator_•15h ago•375 comments

Mythical Man Month

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html
296•ingve•2d ago•174 comments

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/
129•rawgabbit•3d ago•76 comments

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
421•atgctg•2d ago•131 comments

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/
131•Georgelemental•4h ago•37 comments

Introduction to Beaver Triples

https://stoffelmpc.com/stoffel-blog/beaver-triples-tuples
8•badcryptobitch•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/flightsim
16•pizza_man•2d ago•5 comments

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
789•defrost•1d ago•153 comments

Apple is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
10•LorenDB•3h ago•0 comments

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

https://www.kutilek.de/selectric/
48•tangus•2d ago•5 comments

Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

https://jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com/2026/05/building-td4-4-bit-cpu.html
33•zdw•2d ago•11 comments

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20...
148•Tomte•3d ago•37 comments

Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library

https://mochijs.com/
12•ccheshirecat•4h ago•4 comments

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260507070547.2268452-1-sashal@kernel.org/
64•signa11•9h ago•14 comments

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

https://www.wiisfi.com/
324•homebrewer•3d ago•88 comments

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
392•speckx•1d ago•158 comments

Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions

https://tack.pics
16•magikMaker•2d ago•3 comments

Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

https://flow.byu.edu/posts/julia-c++
66•d_tr•2d ago•51 comments

Cartoon Network Flash Games

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
393•willmeyers•1d ago•120 comments

An Introduction to Meshtastic

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
482•ColinWright•1d ago•177 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/