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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/
160•speckx•1h ago•125 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference
186•antipaul•5h ago•89 comments

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_...
31•7402•39m ago•9 comments

Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD

https://calif.io/research/big-fish
122•rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•4h ago•33 comments

What on Earth Is Dekton?

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/porcelain
90•wawayanda•4h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

https://starskirmish.com/bench/v0-2/
124•__cayenne__•4h ago•64 comments

I Love Software Rendering

https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2026/10/13/i-love-software-rendering/
234•speckx•5h ago•160 comments

Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stolen-renoir-paintings-found-behind-wall-france/
67•ohjeez•3d ago•45 comments

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/piramidalinc/jobs/4443102009
1•dsacellarius•1h ago

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits
16•pretext•45m ago•3 comments

Tesla Roadster

https://www.tesla.com/roadster
597•shekhar101•17h ago•937 comments

RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop

https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/06/rfc8950-announce-ipv4-with-ipv6-next-hop/
66•porridgeraisin•5h ago•29 comments

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

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96•farlight•2h ago•67 comments

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

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756•johnnyApplePRNG•3d ago•231 comments

Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6bMSjPepM
58•zdw•19h ago•37 comments

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses

https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/
224•aragonite•2d ago•100 comments

Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

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23•va3ndf•2d ago•7 comments

How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.70113
34•porridgeraisin•4h ago•18 comments

Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

https://rstation.ai/
36•stephenchung•4h ago•18 comments

Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

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117•magoghm•2h ago•35 comments

US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

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124•DeepLogin•2h ago•70 comments

How gyroscopes got so small [video]

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72•surprisetalk•1d ago•32 comments

What was a Token Ring network?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/
46•ibobev•5h ago•38 comments

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

https://www.michelecoscia.com/?p=2613
131•mikk14•2d ago•29 comments

Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do

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27•mtlduo•2d ago•33 comments

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program

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73•paimapi•2h ago•53 comments

Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June

https://www.ft.com/content/5a310aee-f555-4266-874c-b1b4db20186d
23•JumpCrisscross•34m ago•4 comments

AB Fab – On Anthony Burgess

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/ian-penman/ab-fab
4•feltsense•1d ago•1 comments

AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10

https://github.com/mixelpixx/Konnect
113•ofrzeta•2d ago•42 comments

A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-homestation2-firmware/
13•michidk•3h 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•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/