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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
111•droidjj•2h ago•41 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
111•nikolay•1h ago•49 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
206•dayanruben•4h ago•92 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
403•quantumgarbage•8h ago•161 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
65•DemiGuru•2h ago•6 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/
69•speckx•3h ago•49 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
133•sajomes•2d ago•143 comments

A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-andon-market.html
42•jjwiseman•1w ago•38 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
179•ilamont•9h ago•261 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
122•mark_l_watson•3d ago•39 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
454•stevekemp•9h ago•327 comments

Let’s take apart your phone

https://everythingmachine.io/phone/
36•bookofjoe•5d ago•20 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

https://manus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-users
115•thm•7h ago•59 comments

Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife
107•YonathanTesfaye•6h ago•79 comments

OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5
75•voxadam•3h ago•28 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/
39•ibobev•4h ago•1 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business

https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/
258•jonbaer•11h ago•113 comments

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md
269•frabonacci•6h ago•42 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot
39•rvz•4h ago•34 comments

H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
414•swyx•20h ago•93 comments

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/i-put-github-copilot-behind-a-mitm
139•j0selit0•11h ago•18 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
154•BlueBerry2001•12h ago•184 comments

Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

https://www.trykeet.com/
33•zackashen•6h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

https://writemd.app/
55•danielbilekq•8h ago•56 comments

An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk

https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06650-9.html?srsltid=AfmBOorGIOS9Y77k3J_CX6UWqfZl...
5•Bluestein•6d ago•0 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempi...
72•andsoitis•1h ago•107 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
26•pseudolus•2d ago•7 comments

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/
846•awnird•23h ago•845 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0

https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS
293•eatonphil•21h ago•49 comments

Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server

https://github.com/halcyon-video/halcyon-video
67•Gander5739•4d ago•17 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/