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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
145•zenincognito•3h ago•23 comments

AWS emulator

https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator
669•super_linear•7h ago•217 comments

Tim Peters has died

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028
866•ayhanfuat•18h ago•94 comments

United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/
370•herpderperator•4h ago•353 comments

Lock Your GitHub Actions

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/lock-github-actions/
120•gslin•3h ago•22 comments

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/
410•mbac32768•9h ago•210 comments

Gemini Decisions API

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/
270•iamdelirium•7h ago•84 comments

A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs

https://github.com/tylertms/Stela
50•iceboundrock•2h ago•13 comments

Emacs in the Age of Magic

https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt
143•ggcr•5h ago•52 comments

The Utah Teapot

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
76•cobbal•6h ago•17 comments

Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund

https://termsheetplease.com/
169•bolau•6h ago•76 comments

How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/cnc-plasma-cutter.html
7•edward•3d ago•1 comments

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/faster-retrieval
153•zerop•8h ago•28 comments

Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference

https://github.com/huawei-csl/MACaQ
60•thefox96•5h ago•19 comments

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?

https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site
928•eyvindn•13h ago•338 comments

Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
516•jbredeche•3h ago•747 comments

Jensen Huang said to have had relationship with executive who reports to him

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/technology/jensen-huang-nvidia-affair.html
197•louiereederson•3h ago•179 comments

Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

https://av.github.io/safe-sand/
311•everlier•12h ago•64 comments

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt
168•brownrout•10h ago•76 comments

Making the Iron Giant Live

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the-iron-giant-live
10•vinhnx•2d ago•1 comments

Flying on Green: Why Farmers Are Turning to Drones for Cover Crop Seeding

https://www.agweb.com/news/machinery/flying-green-why-farmers-are-turning-drones-cover-crop-seeding
45•rmason•2d ago•25 comments

Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents

48•alanjm23•8h ago•39 comments

A Brief History of Sierra Online (2017)

https://retrofreakreviews.com/2017/01/30/sierra-retrospective/
23•freshtake•1d ago•1 comments

Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine

https://blog.atuin.sh/threads-agent-sessions/
191•linsomniac•11h ago•73 comments

Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?

https://nathan.rs/posts/weight-space-lp/
242•emschwartz•13h ago•36 comments

The hardest notes to find on the guitar

https://www.gitori.com/blog/articles/hardest-notes-on-the-guitar-fretboard
51•udit99•9h ago•64 comments

Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

https://blog.kate.land/posts/using-voltage-glitching-to-unlock-the-a100/
262•lae•15h ago•107 comments

The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026

https://discussions.apple.com/welcome
122•tech234a•22h ago•209 comments

Optimizing Reference Deletions in Git

https://nayak.im/posts/optimizing-reference-deletion/
22•nayak•3d ago•0 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-11-11-ibm-quantum-nighthawk-demonstrates-new-levels-of-speed-and-qu...
49•gok•6h ago•24 comments
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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/