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Sizing chaos

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
411•zdw•8h ago•215 comments

27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/
253•surprisetalk•8h ago•130 comments

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance
179•theahura•2h ago•192 comments

15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern

https://nicolasdickenmann.com/blog/the-great-fp64-divide.html
63•fp64enjoyer•3h ago•16 comments

Cosmologically Unique IDs

https://jasonfantl.com/posts/Universal-Unique-IDs/
324•jfantl•11h ago•103 comments

How to Choose Between Hindley-Milner and Bidirectional Typing

https://thunderseethe.dev/posts/how-to-choose-between-hm-and-bidir/
66•thunderseethe•3d ago•8 comments

Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
367•sz4kerto•12h ago•186 comments

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe
50•pseudolus•5h ago•21 comments

European Tech Alternatives

https://eutechmap.com/map
7•puppion•35m ago•0 comments

Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
298•idoxer•13h ago•148 comments

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-v...
134•tuananh•3h ago•35 comments

Step 3.5 Flash: Fast Enough to Think. Reliable Enough to Act

https://static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/
24•kristianp•3h ago•7 comments

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html
235•todsacerdoti•11h ago•107 comments

A Pokémon of a Different Color

https://matthew.verive.me/blog/color/
83•Risse•3d ago•8 comments

Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript

https://blackboard.sh/blog/electrobun-v1/
44•merlindru•1h ago•8 comments

The Perils of ISBN

https://rygoldstein.com/posts/perils-of-isbn
106•evakhoury•12h ago•52 comments

Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals

https://digitalseams.com/blog/making-a-font-with-9999-ligatures-to-display-thirteenth-century-mon...
68•a7b3fa•3d ago•8 comments

Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container

https://github.com/a11ce/docker-lisp
7•a11ce•1h ago•1 comments

R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth

https://github.com/phreda4/r3/blob/main/doc/r3forth_tutorial.md
70•tosh•10h ago•10 comments

What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3778029
66•underscoreF•10h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll

66•FailMore•17h ago•26 comments

Metriport (YC S22) is hiring a security engineer to harden healthcare infra

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metriport/jobs/XC2AF8s-senior-security-engineer
1•dgoncharov•8h ago

Learning Lean: Part 1

https://rkirov.github.io/posts/lean1/
100•vinhnx•3d ago•11 comments

Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/langchain-with-sqlvectorstore-example/
242•anonymous908213•6h ago•145 comments

Show HN: Respectlytics – Open-source, privacy-first mobile analytics (MIT+AGPL)

https://github.com/respectlytics/respectlytics
13•cesncn•3d ago•1 comments

Ukranian controls Home Assistant over LoRa radio when their power grid goes down

https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1r8ftc0/i_control_my_home_assistant_over_lora_rad...
21•switz•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: I built a fuse box for microservices

https://www.openfuse.io
6•rodrigorcs•15h ago•2 comments

Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933
250•thewavelength•6h ago•192 comments

Roads to Rome (2015)

https://benedikt-gross.de/projects/roads-to-rome/
20•robin_reala•3d ago•4 comments

All Look Same?

https://alllooksame.com/
51•mirawelner•6h ago•39 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/