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Midjourney Medical

https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost
536•ricochet11•5h ago•380 comments

The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion

https://www.acma.gov.au/sms-sender-id-register
26•anitil•51m ago•8 comments

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

https://blog.alexellis.io/local-ai-is-not-opus/
136•alphabettsy•4h ago•55 comments

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

https://lore.org/
1097•regnerba•16h ago•586 comments

DeepSeek Introduces Vision

https://chat.deepseek.com/
28•RIshabh235•57m ago•13 comments

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms...
433•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•488 comments

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=921
131•beatthatflight•7h ago•27 comments

Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

https://storiedcolors.com/
148•susiecambria•9h ago•33 comments

Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

https://conf.nim-lang.org/
28•pietroppeter•3h ago•3 comments

Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wyxvqdx1zo
57•ilreb•3h ago•50 comments

Clojure Hosted on Go

https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure
109•dnlo•8h ago•13 comments

[x86] AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification

https://x86ecosystem.org/resource/ai-compute-extensions-ace-specification/
29•matt_d•4h ago•13 comments

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

https://loreline.app/en/
135•smartmic•10h ago•17 comments

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
262•gregpr07•1d ago•169 comments

How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/
102•trymas•11h ago•52 comments

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
177•zachdive•15h ago•84 comments

SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/697641379212298072
92•jrepinc•3h ago•6 comments

I Hate Compilers

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-wasm-vendor-binary/
45•xena•2h ago•41 comments

Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students

https://github.com/c0rRupT9/STEPLA-1
60•CorRupT9•2d ago•11 comments

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
357•schappim•20h ago•152 comments

Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator

https://sogen.dev/
6•fratellobigio•3d ago•1 comments

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/
239•kodesko•18h ago•104 comments

Biological evolution and information acquisition

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/biological-evolution-and-information
36•chmaynard•6d ago•3 comments

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch
225•brownrout•14h ago•121 comments

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
627•microtonal•16h ago•380 comments

Show HN: Spin Lab

https://srijanshukla.com/artifacts/spin-lab/
31•srijanshukla18•1d ago•11 comments

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vm...
275•Bender•10h ago•154 comments

How to Become a Person After Smartphones Have Rotted Your Brain

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-to-become-a-person-after-smartphones-have-rotted-...
18•the-mitr•51m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

https://johnowhitaker.github.io/inkwash/about
217•Yenrabbit•4d ago•23 comments

Magic Buffers and io_uring Registered Buffers

https://www.mindfruit.co.uk/posts/2025/10/magic-buffers-and-io-uring-write-fixed/
14•tosh•2d 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/