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Making Graphics Like it's 1993

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
279•sklopec•3h ago•39 comments

Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revol...
102•ortr•55m ago•23 comments

GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI

https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
258•tekkertje•4h ago•54 comments

The better the autopilot the worse the pilot

https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-better-the-autopilot-the-worse-the-pilot/
48•julienreszka•1h ago•35 comments

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/
38•brandonb•38m ago•17 comments

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-...
341•raffael_de•7h ago•136 comments

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/
171•BrunoBernardino•5h ago•97 comments

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/
415•ternaus•3d ago•64 comments

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/
37•qunabu•2h ago•13 comments

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)

https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/biologist-scott-poethig-plants-never-age
83•bryanrasmussen•6h ago•40 comments

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer
1•gabesaruhashi•2h ago

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02539
60•Anon84•1d ago•6 comments

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/
665•unclefuzzy•19h ago•515 comments

The iPhone's Last Stand

https://stratechery.com/2026/the-iphones-last-stand/
73•swolpers•4h ago•115 comments

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

https://thi.ng
106•nmstoker•1d ago•18 comments

Job: Head of Stonehenge

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/job-search/default-job-page/...
182•mooreds•11h ago•155 comments

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

https://martinalderson.com/posts/xais-new-rental-business/
619•martinald•23h ago•485 comments

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/
1066•lizhang•1d ago•193 comments

Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

https://oshogbo.com/blog/90/
43•zdw•2d ago•7 comments

Adopting the Parallel DWARF linker in dsymutil

https://jonasdevlieghere.com/post/dsymutil-parallel-linker/
7•JDevlieghere•2d ago•1 comments

Siri AI

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/
628•0xedb•20h ago•626 comments

The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

https://giodicanio.com/2026/06/05/how-to-declare-a-c-plus-plus-function-that-takes-a-blob-of-memory/
43•movd128•2d ago•76 comments

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

https://www.foodwatch.org/en/eu-banned-pesticides-found-in-rice-tea-and-spices
471•john-titor•22h ago•254 comments

Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone

https://dfarq.homeip.net/eagle-computer-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-early-pc-clone/
30•giuliomagnifico•5h ago•5 comments

Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot

https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/thinkpad_x61/
116•walterbell•10h ago•42 comments

H2JVM – A Haskell Library for Writing JVM Bytecode

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/h2jvm-a-haskell-library-for-writing-jvm-bytecode/14182
33•rowbin•2d ago•8 comments

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-tilert-1000tps
596•gainsurier•23h ago•443 comments

Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet

https://oldavista.com/
134•abnercoimbre•22h ago•28 comments

Apple Core AI Framework

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreai/
333•hmokiguess•19h ago•96 comments

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-query-hints
202•jjgreen•3d ago•35 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/