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LLMs reward expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
671•MaxMussio•8h ago•275 comments

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawlin...
93•marojejian•5d ago•48 comments

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet
63•leonickson•12h ago•19 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
501•milkshakes•12h ago•766 comments

Devtools must be open source

https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source
548•bryanmikaelian•15h ago•191 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

140•whoishiring•14h ago•128 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
82•pmg101•5h ago•34 comments

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/
183•ascorbic•12h ago•42 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

92•whoishiring•14h ago•218 comments

IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf]

https://scancad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/zero-orientation-cad-libaray.pdf
5•gregsadetsky•3d ago•0 comments

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/
430•mpweiher•19h ago•359 comments

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/
81•jandeboevrie•7h ago•41 comments

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui
280•vblanco•15h ago•83 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c...
146•roryirvine•12h ago•37 comments

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse
294•nikolay_sivko•15h ago•62 comments

They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-93-1-they-forgot-what-happened-last-time
38•Jimmc414•3d ago•1 comments

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

https://ei3lh.eu/2025/11/20/replacing-the-kobo-libra-h2o-battery/
61•austinallegro•4d ago•18 comments

200 Milliseconds

https://200ms.thenodebook.com
233•dimitarpanov•2d ago•66 comments

Twenty Years of Pandoc

https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
165•fiddlosopher•14h ago•19 comments

How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-hollywood-stopped-making-movies
182•speckx•6d ago•221 comments

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/zx-spectrum-system-tour-text-mode/
35•rbanffy•7h ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

https://hoplite.sh
65•BenceRed•12h ago•51 comments

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai
322•KolmogorovComp•20h ago•137 comments

Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

https://defector.com/abandoned-fish-sauce-canada-interview
224•ohjeez•3d ago•238 comments

KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD
60•skibz•10h ago•8 comments

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm
205•Anon84•18h ago•76 comments

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)

https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle
16•frozenseven•5h ago•8 comments

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups

https://planetscale.com/blog/massively-parallel-postgres-backups
100•ksec•3d ago•12 comments

More German than many Germans

https://mertbulan.com/more-german-than-many-germans/
445•mertbio•23h ago•316 comments

Battle of the Beams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams
44•petethomas•3d ago•12 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/