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GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
1422•OfficialTurkey•13h ago•688 comments

Claude Opus 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5
1439•km144•14h ago•904 comments

Transit rewards

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/09/transit-rewards/
105•raybb•4h ago•89 comments

Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/data-only-attacks-are-easier-you-think
33•segfaultbuserr•3h ago•13 comments

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html
635•sohkamyung•17h ago•381 comments

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

https://foxscript.org/
282•boredjohnny•10h ago•168 comments

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/
560•spenvo•13h ago•385 comments

ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI
125•nateb2022•2d ago•41 comments

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

https://www.kqed.org/science/2002033/heres-what-california-is-learning-from-solar-panels-built-ov...
192•Jtsummers•1d ago•307 comments

Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs

https://github.com/hsfzxjy/npunlock
4•hsfzxjy•18h ago•1 comments

SAML: A fractal of bad design

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
217•aray07•12h ago•127 comments

No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls

https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2026/08/27/no-easy-fix-for-bogus-respondents-in-online-opt-in...
19•luu•1d ago•5 comments

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/
295•ibobev•4d ago•114 comments

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp
182•vntok•14h ago•93 comments

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5
271•theanonymousone•14h ago•82 comments

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
581•devonnull•12h ago•290 comments

Unreal Agent

https://unreallabs.ai/blog/unreal-agent/
168•trollied•12h ago•98 comments

The softness of metal

https://psyche.co/turning-points/his-frailty-made-ozzys-final-gig-true-heavy-metal
26•NaOH•1d ago•5 comments

The current balance of power in open models

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-current-balance-of-power-in-open
76•gmays•9h ago•24 comments

Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wjdpgx/psa_grammarly_will_send_unhinged_messages_to_all/
67•ksec•3h ago•14 comments

People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/to-quit-vaping-some-are-starting-to-smoke
156•alephnerd•1d ago•166 comments

Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

https://obscura.com/#faq-technical
119•Flimm•11h ago•91 comments

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/
285•JohnBerryman•16h ago•204 comments

Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models

https://benchmarkheaven.com/jev-models
96•florianstandhar•18h ago•24 comments

Delta: Highly available, strongly consistent storage using chain replication (2022)

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/05/04/data-infrastructure/delta/
20•grep_it•1d ago•1 comments

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/side-step-secretary-problem-hiring/index.html
76•pvdebbe•1d ago•13 comments

Markdown in /src

https://htmx.org/essays/markdown-in-src/
122•perrygeo•1d ago•60 comments

Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

https://github.com/geastack/examples
106•arbayi•11h ago•36 comments

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-pe...
696•MC995•16h ago•504 comments

16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)

https://allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-8088-chip
116•rbanffy•14h ago•15 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/