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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html
330•saeedesmaili•3h ago•92 comments

Global Intelligence Crisis

https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
50•tin7in•1h ago•18 comments

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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80•Gooblebrai•3h ago•49 comments

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

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486•susam•9h ago•214 comments

Six Math Essentials

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43•digital55•3h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS

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70•harshdoesdev•3h ago•20 comments

Fix your tools

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161•vinhnx•6h ago•59 comments

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

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50•vermaden•3h ago•19 comments

AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human

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82•rofko•6h ago•39 comments

Git's Magic Files

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91•chmaynard•8h ago•24 comments

Procedural Tron

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In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback

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21•thunderbong•1h ago•10 comments

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10•olserra•3h ago•12 comments

NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker

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75•simplesort•3h ago•55 comments

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

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191•enz•15h ago•88 comments

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An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

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67•rbanffy•3h ago•43 comments

What's the best way to learn a new language?

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We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

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190•jakozaur•7h ago•84 comments

Monkey Patching in VBA

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41•n013•4d ago•5 comments

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17•alx-net•5d ago•1 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•10mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•10mo 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•10mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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/