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Leaving Google has actively improved my life

https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/
160•speckx•2h ago•96 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds...
169•zlatkov•6h ago•286 comments

The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock

https://www.origami-robotics.com/blog/dexterity-deadlocks.html
47•shmublu•1h ago•26 comments

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
127•voxadam•4h ago•133 comments

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
317•nnx•7h ago•107 comments

Let's discuss sandbox isolation

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/52/lets-discuss-sandbox-isolation/
48•shayonj•2h ago•12 comments

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/longmont-co/daniel-simmons-12758871
301•throw0101a•3h ago•128 comments

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation
47•cwwc•5h ago•23 comments

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/
41•chunkles•3h ago•3 comments

Allocating on the Stack

https://go.dev/blog/allocation-optimizations
92•spacey•4h ago•38 comments

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

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120•WalterSobchak•6h ago•120 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive

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1•asontha•2h ago

Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory

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60•ibobev•3d ago•24 comments

We Built Secure, Scalable Agent Sandbox Infrastructure

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30•gregpr07•6h ago•6 comments

"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"

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62•bobbiechen•3d ago•12 comments

PCB Tracer

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8•Luc•3d ago•2 comments

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices

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395•hn_acker•6h ago•63 comments

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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328•zhisme•12h ago•162 comments

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286
73•iamnothere•5h ago•33 comments

Reading English from 1000 AD

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81•LAC-Tech•3d ago•30 comments

Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

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102•antirez•2d ago•52 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

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236•jsomers•2d ago•170 comments

Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

97•mousepad12•10h ago•144 comments

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154•lqs_•8h ago•45 comments

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

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135•nephihaha•2h ago•35 comments

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

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127•shad42•5h ago•80 comments

Sprites on the Web

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89•vinhnx•3d ago•16 comments

Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

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5•rikk3rt•5h ago•0 comments

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
2796•qwertox•22h ago•1482 comments

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
151•edent•11h ago•104 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•10mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•10mo 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•10mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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/