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GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
157•segmenta•1h ago•93 comments

In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-wind-solar-fossil-fuels
131•speckx•2h ago•76 comments

Qwen3-TTS Family Is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
83•Palmik•2h ago•10 comments

Design Thinking Books You Must Read

https://www.designorate.com/design-thinking-books/
169•rrm1977•4h ago•74 comments

Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/
58•ashton314•1h ago•16 comments

ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss

https://pdfa.org/want-to-make-your-pdfs-20-smaller-for-free/
68•whizzx•5h ago•33 comments

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
217•speckx•2h ago•192 comments

We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

https://curl.se/.well-known/security.txt
679•latexr•5h ago•398 comments

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete

https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
450•williamzeng0•17h ago•88 comments

30 Years of ReactOS

https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/
115•Mark_Jansen•8h ago•59 comments

Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter

https://www.projectlumen.app/
28•anticlickwise•3d ago•2 comments

Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/brazilian-city-uses-tilapia-fish-skin-treat-burn-victims
204•kaycebasques•11h ago•71 comments

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
439•misswaterfairy•17h ago•311 comments

In Praise of APL (1977)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm
70•tosh•7h ago•39 comments

Flowtel (YC W25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowtel/jobs/LaddaEz-founding-engineer-staff-senior
1•eylonmiz•4h ago

Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1UfLPK7_Q
9•kerim-ca•2d ago•0 comments

Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/
233•vinnyglennon•16h ago•228 comments

eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/
237•bdcravens•19h ago•264 comments

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/
53•petethomas•2h ago•19 comments

The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein/
10•Anon84•5d ago•1 comments

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
397•josephwegner•22h ago•220 comments

Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/unikernels-intro-93976514
90•valyala•5d ago•31 comments

Claude's new constitution

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
518•meetpateltech•1d ago•612 comments

Gathering Linux Syscall Numbers in a C Table

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-01-17-gathering-linux-syscall-numbers
77•phi-system•5d ago•32 comments

Skip is now free and open source

https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
465•dayanruben•1d ago•213 comments

Lix – universal version control system for binary files

https://lix.dev/blog/introducing-lix/
113•onecommit•16h ago•43 comments

Interfaces and Traits in C

https://antonz.org/interfaces-in-c/
4•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
640•huntergemmer•1d ago•197 comments

Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/01/22/zack-polanski-to-hand-in-nhs-contract-termination-not...
3•robtherobber•10m ago•0 comments

The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
17•1659447091•5h ago•8 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•9mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•9mo 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•9mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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/