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mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
324•ahlCVA•4h ago•85 comments

Epic vs. Apple AU:Court Orders Alt App Stores,Sideloading and 3rd Party Payments

https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2026/2026fca1552
104•Mayzie•2h ago•57 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
48•craigcitro•1h ago•27 comments

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
271•zkldi•5h ago•134 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
367•passenger•6h ago•211 comments

Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html
244•kaycebasques•9h ago•132 comments

GitLab critical patch release

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
274•artooro•9h ago•67 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
460•abhisek•14h ago•156 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html
28•jimauthors•23h ago•17 comments

Chain of Thought for Humans

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/chain-of-thought-for-humans/
52•ibobev•2d ago•24 comments

LLM Agents Play Pokemon Showdown

https://olivergrabner.com/research/pokemon/
17•grabnero•2h ago•10 comments

Beyond the &

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096028/
27•PaulHoule•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara
43•kmansm27•11h ago•12 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
436•cbg0•10h ago•279 comments

Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages

https://ardentperf.com/2026/10/20/postgres-recovery_prefetch-considered-harmful-and-causing-outages/
11•plaur782•5h ago•0 comments

Code is clay now

https://www.albertodenia.com/writing/code-is-clay-now
123•albertodenia•2d ago•61 comments

PingCap TiDB Leaks

https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/
260•swyx•1d ago•36 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o
167•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•30 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...
698•ejohnso49•12h ago•343 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/
258•armcat•15h ago•107 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
216•riffraff•1d ago•152 comments

Show HN: Can you tell an AI's real 30-day memory from a fabricated one?

https://kairos-experiment.com/distinguish.html
8•gcolella•2d ago•0 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
384•nnx•14h ago•49 comments

Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/19/why-windows-11-still-ships-with-windows-95s-memory-manag...
154•khalidkhair•2d ago•101 comments

Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/
243•nr378•14h ago•164 comments

EA is shutting down BioWare

https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware
574•aaronbrethorst•10h ago•348 comments

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-waterfall-for-sale-lawmakers-996de63462d49ec3ad9bee1629fb9488
175•surprisetalk•12h ago•89 comments

Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents

https://alterauth.com/
56•simfinii•21h ago•24 comments

PHP 8.2.35

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.2.35
984•tuyuri•14h ago•535 comments

I reverse engineered a board game

https://wuemeli.com/blog/reversing-hitster-game/
10•wuemeli•14h ago•0 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/