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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
705•speckx•4h ago•252 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
78•thepoet•1h ago•21 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
130•colinprince•2h ago•54 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
380•dares2573•7h ago•125 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
221•gavide•5h ago•29 comments

When the shortage is the strategy

https://nooneshappy.com/article/when-the-shortage-is-the-strategy/
13•speckx•40m ago•1 comments

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
11•arguiot•38m ago•1 comments

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/3f326076-7415-46a1-921e-8a1b1d6ee2b6
1•ij23•1h ago

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
137•speckx•5h ago•84 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
30•ibobev•1h ago•2 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
10•Ariarule•1w ago•0 comments

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-better-lower-bound-for-n17.html
10•gus_massa•1h ago•1 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

https://passo.uno/if-you-are-an-agent-read-this/
18•theletterf•4d ago•4 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
35•dash2•2d ago•130 comments

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
77•pppone•4h ago•26 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-fac...
19•jakelsaunders94•1h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate
12•pablo24602•1h ago•5 comments

Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
127•djfergus•2h ago•96 comments

New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/new-york-san-francisco-tech-talent-cbre.html
20•toomuchtodo•2h ago•11 comments

I Just Want to Search

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/just-want-to-search
76•ssiddharth•2h ago•27 comments

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/08/21/obfuscation_part_iii_local_mixing.html
23•fbrusch•3h ago•1 comments

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
542•throw7•5h ago•294 comments

How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/08/21/Lamport.html
28•baruchel•3h ago•8 comments

Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/health/flight-attendants-pilots-radiation-cancer-deaths
58•jader201•2h ago•57 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
412•Cider9986•15h ago•761 comments

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

https://github.com/yaroslav/kino
65•ksec•7h ago•13 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
46•karma_daemon•5h ago•4 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/
192•marcomezzavilla•8h ago•50 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
231•spankibalt•10h ago•127 comments

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
8•unprovable•2h ago•2 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/