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Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/civic-hygiene/
308•felineflock•1h ago•188 comments

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/
407•kareiva•6h ago•54 comments

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/
276•yassa9•5h ago•52 comments

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html
76•CommonGuy•3h ago•11 comments

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
20•guyb3•1h ago•4 comments

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en
1355•amatheus•15h ago•369 comments

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-emp...
185•downbad_•2h ago•89 comments

Extensible Software in the Age of LLMs

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/
22•coloneltcb•1h ago•12 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/
181•karlmush•4h ago•125 comments

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787
338•heydenberk•4h ago•135 comments

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730
484•exceptione•6h ago•293 comments

How Kubernetes Probes Work

https://ngrok.com/blog/probes
13•cyndunlop•1h ago•0 comments

Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

https://theremin.bizibah.com/
178•gurov•7h ago•69 comments

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08679
16•florianherrengt•1h ago•9 comments

Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5

https://github.com/vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c
62•dhorthy•1d ago•21 comments

Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
69•robin_reala•6d ago•27 comments

Mathematics in the Age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
19•jonbaer•2h ago•10 comments

A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)

https://kolja.rs/algorithm-d/
128•nk_kolja•6d ago•24 comments

Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices

https://news.mit.edu/2026/turning-molecules-into-reliable-electronic-devices-0803
4•gmays•5d ago•0 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
415•sunils34•17h ago•252 comments

Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents

https://demo.frugaltokens.com/
11•dpc94•42m ago•2 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
819•nichochar•3d ago•631 comments

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-forged-meteorites-fashionable-ancient-greek.html
93•pseudolus•5d ago•36 comments

New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years

https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/
121•__fst__•2h ago•98 comments

A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning

https://mrandri19.github.io/2026/07/19/drone-racing-with-reinforcement-learning.html
13•daww•3d ago•1 comments

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/activation-energy-is-a-good-model
133•surprisetalk•5d ago•34 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co57SfcT-h0
217•CharlesW•4d ago•95 comments

Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes

https://github.com/enthdegree/f100
29•enthdegree•4d ago•16 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
363•phoenix120•19h ago•169 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/
163•matt_d•15h ago•37 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/