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GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
559•Philpax•4h ago•261 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
51•Velocifyer•42m ago•6 comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
773•onderkalaci•5h ago•223 comments

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

https://cartefibre.arcep.fr
278•nehalem501•4h ago•198 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next
453•tosh•5h ago•137 comments

Tailcat: Secure Tunnels in Seconds (Tailscale)

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
40•nderjung•42m ago•3 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
195•GavinAnderegg•3h ago•75 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f
170•blimmer•3h ago•98 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
142•speckx•4h ago•81 comments

Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-leg...
273•mykowebhn•2h ago•110 comments

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/
80•polyrand•3h ago•43 comments

It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/
71•zazuke•2h ago•35 comments

Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

https://www.risklytics.ai/
14•AlexRisio•2h ago•5 comments

CDs vs. NIMBY

https://www.betonit.ai/p/cds-vs-nimby
9•pr337h4m•53m ago•5 comments

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think
348•j0selit0•9h ago•156 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
243•zoenolan•4d ago•81 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make
66•LVB•2h ago•23 comments

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76809
74•speckx•5h ago•44 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer
1•pablo24602•6h ago

FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-met...
22•leopoldj•2h ago•5 comments

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/
364•bhouston•4h ago•335 comments

Graze Joins Flipboard

https://graze.leaflet.pub/3mtypcuxxc22p
8•Kye•1h ago•1 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-ve...
13•gedankenstuecke•1h ago•0 comments

Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/scotland-woodlands-antidepressants
28•speckx•4h ago•4 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
164•motownphilly•4h ago•72 comments

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/
51•samizdis•4h ago•8 comments

A Citation to Asimov

https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/08/25/a-citation-to-asimov/
38•speckx•4h ago•16 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
54•dazhbog•7h ago•22 comments

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/
161•altilunium•9h ago•32 comments

How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk

https://github.com/qisutu/qisutu
29•OFORK•4h ago•7 comments
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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/