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I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua
304•networked•5h ago•111 comments

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edo
136•choult•1h ago•102 comments

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

https://rmoff.net/2026/01/14/alternatives-to-minio-for-single-node-local-s3/
51•rmoff•3h ago•31 comments

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

https://tintotint.eu/whacky-corner/f-droid_slop/
63•_ZeD_•2h ago•46 comments

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-availa...
632•throw0101d•17h ago•722 comments

OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm

https://github.com/enactic/OpenArm
114•Lwrless•1d ago•21 comments

4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls

https://arkeonews.net/4400-year-old-tomb-of-an-egyptian-judge-found-at-saqqara-with-colors-still-...
156•arunbahl•2d ago•51 comments

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion
421•lukaspetersson•18h ago•524 comments

A rough guide for going back to the Moon

https://research.ibm.com/blog/nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model
8•gmays•21h ago•0 comments

Linux from Scratch

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
217•sippingabonedry•7h ago•72 comments

CSS-Tricks in Limbo

https://vale.rocks/micros/20260915-0135
31•edent•4h ago•3 comments

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

https://xcancel.com/#
666•gaganyaan•1d ago•954 comments

Charts built for Chat

https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/
242•thingsilearned•14h ago•75 comments

The k-server conjecture is true

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15979
20•iamsyr•4h ago•9 comments

Lingo.dev (YC F24) is hiring a senior content engineer (Remote, worldwide)

https://lingo.dev/en/careers/ff88132a-cb79-4d35-a6a0-a6230de7a013
1•maxpr•4h ago

Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model

https://poltora.dev/redis
112•poltora•2d ago•19 comments

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
472•gregnavis•23h ago•382 comments

Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)

https://nathannaveen.dev/posts/dropping-ebpf-cpu-cost-by-90/
128•nathannaveen•21h ago•28 comments

A beginning for mathematics

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/
238•robinhouston•20h ago•128 comments

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/
315•grep_it•19h ago•68 comments

Compressing a flag to 11 bits

https://read.vantezzen.io/miniflags
159•bennett_dev•2d ago•62 comments

Let's make quality the norm again

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/
80•ingve•1h ago•91 comments

High-performance garbage collection for C++

https://v8.dev/blog/high-performance-cpp-gc
53•motownphilly•23h ago•12 comments

Forgotten Woodlands

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b790daf22ba4e87836f467abb1c7e49
71•NaOH•3d ago•24 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete
212•theanonymousone•22h ago•227 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

340•david927•1d ago•1056 comments

Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS

https://github.com/JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd
78•fretlessjazz•12h ago•19 comments

Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/
223•carllerche•20h ago•53 comments

Pythoncall.jl – Python and Julia in Harmony

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PythonCall.jl
5•TheWiggles•3h ago•0 comments

People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

https://dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-mental-imagery-brain-network/
180•giuliomagnifico•22h ago•256 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/