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Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
47•nooks•1h ago•6 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/
132•zdw•1d ago•31 comments

There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/more-etfs-than-stocks
8•akyuu•38m ago•5 comments

I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

https://www.djspeckhals.com/posts/2026-05-22-how-i-bypassed-adobe-and-microsoft-to-build-a-git-tr...
76•dustin1114•4d ago•19 comments

The Ballad of TIGIT

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-ballad-of-tigit
81•crescit_eundo•5h ago•15 comments

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

https://github.com/logannye/rosalind
78•samuell•5d ago•17 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html
200•aghuang•7h ago•197 comments

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gamb...
597•thm•7h ago•282 comments

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

https://www.minicor.com/
59•fchishtie•6h ago•43 comments

What color is your function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
68•tosh•5h ago•61 comments

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

https://retrogamecoders.com/overhead-camera-view/
58•ibobev•7h ago•9 comments

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-fro...
193•GodelNumbering•8h ago•216 comments

The real cost of owning a home

https://ericturner.dev/posts/cost-of-home-ownership/
154•ggcr•4h ago•382 comments

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer
1•ian-gillis•4h ago

DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

https://dynip.dev/
295•dynip•13h ago•115 comments

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

https://buffrr.dev/blog/are-we-self-sovereign-pki-yet/
53•ca98am79•4d ago•24 comments

The Steinwinter Supercargo

https://www.thedrive.com/article/12603/the-forgotten-steinwinter-supercargo-is-unlike-anything-on...
11•itronitron•2d ago•0 comments

Opaque Types in Python

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/05/opaque-types-in-python.html
96•lumpa•3d ago•38 comments

Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?

https://dynomight.net/crc-rates/
123•surprisetalk•5h ago•126 comments

Use boring languages with LLMs

https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/
120•evakhoury•4d ago•99 comments

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking

https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-thanks-ai-but-companys-still-kicking-ai/
98•geerlingguy•3h ago•141 comments

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

https://github.com/yugr/rust-slides/
110•tanelpoder•21h ago•84 comments

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/
461•vrganj•9h ago•181 comments

A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099
153•juxtapose•5h ago•119 comments

Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews

https://shmuplations.com/phantasystariv/
123•speckx•4d ago•49 comments

Don't Subscribe So Casually

https://thebestworstcase.substack.com/p/dont-subscribe-so-casually
90•shmublu•6h ago•66 comments

Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/modern-blu-ray-drives-can-now-rip-gamecub...
37•01-_-•2h ago•5 comments

The user is visibly frustrated

https://pscanf.com/s/354/
249•croes•16h ago•221 comments

Extending MySQL with VillageSQL

https://maxdemarzi.com/2026/05/21/extending-mysql-with-villagesql/
12•maxdemarzi•2d ago•2 comments

Stop Advertising in Your Commits

https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/
142•speckx•2h ago•132 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/