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Borland Turbo Basic

https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basic.php
23•sssilver•1h ago•4 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
217•tosh•5h ago•111 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
21•Vosporos•1h ago•1 comments

Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-o...
334•clan•8h ago•251 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
241•finnlab•3h ago•134 comments

Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0
59•roflcopter69•4h ago•20 comments

Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent-agreement
125•0xedb•8h ago•74 comments

Mosquitoes Are a Choice

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
89•benbreen•22h ago•79 comments

Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
92•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•40 comments

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/
75•signa11•4d ago•12 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
881•snehesht•1d ago•394 comments

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release/
126•Anon84•5h ago•26 comments

Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation

https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/
288•dachworker•5h ago•254 comments

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
205•rdmuser•19h ago•25 comments

Martian chaos terrain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain
39•tiagod•3d ago•6 comments

Beating the Compiler

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-07-12-interpreter/
13•andsoitis•4d ago•2 comments

Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004747/florida-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-...
15•timpera•1h ago•6 comments

Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

77•goldenmember•3h ago•35 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
241•Vaslo•1d ago•38 comments

ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability

https://github.com/explaindb/explaindb
53•pykello•3d ago•3 comments

Picard 3.0 Released

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/10/04/picard-3-0-released/
28•Tomte•2h ago•5 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
340•wiso•21h ago•112 comments

The Tao of Backup

http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
215•vntok•3d ago•85 comments

Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust

https://github.com/project-minigraf/minigraf
15•adityamukho•4h ago•3 comments

Apple and a Hacker's Future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
141•maguay•6h ago•126 comments

The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/
52•birdculture•3h ago•25 comments

Infidel goes wild

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
165•tobr•2d ago•34 comments

The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news

https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/solutions-resources/philadelphia-inquirer-scrape-ai-hyperlocal-n...
56•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•21 comments

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/
5•marc__1•4h ago•2 comments

Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFTfANuLBF4
16•ptrhvns•2h ago•23 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/