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NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
161•wglb•4h ago•24 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
239•Meleagris•4h ago•102 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
549•tosh•12h ago•327 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
187•moelf•7h ago•63 comments

Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
74•aanet•2d ago•14 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
300•piotrgrabowski•12h ago•71 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
532•RickJWagner•17h ago•618 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
77•zdw•6d ago•11 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
180•aagha•11h ago•58 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
57•allenc•4d ago•22 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
209•moonikakiss•11h ago•192 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
158•MarcoDewey•14h ago•37 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
172•artninja1988•13h ago•173 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
307•inigyou•22h ago•286 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
438•delduca•12h ago•303 comments

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3
39•dnnehgf•2h ago•14 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...
37•yk•3d ago•16 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
135•cckolon•6d ago•18 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
267•poly2it•19h ago•130 comments

Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/02/games-at-the-press-of-a-button-the-rip-o-bot/
29•msephton•5d ago•9 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
61•theanonymousone•11h ago•2 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...
165•Bender•8h ago•113 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
126•jnord•17h ago•92 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
61•birdculture•4d ago•5 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
180•m3h•19h ago•48 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
748•boplicity•1d ago•401 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
66•ibobev•14h ago•10 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about
157•stagas•19h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
187•v0id_isgood•17h ago•105 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
897•itvision•1d ago•673 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/