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Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
160•surprisetalk•46m ago•132 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
133•matheusmoreira•2d ago•16 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

https://www.rise-reforming.com
51•george_rose25•2h ago•16 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
85•jcbhmr•4h ago•20 comments

Securing Services with Rootless Containers

https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
29•speckx•4d ago•12 comments

Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

https://cen.acs.org/materials/adhesives/glue-bonds-nonstick-surfaces-wipes-clean/104/web/2026/07
136•gmays•4d ago•71 comments

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
48•LorenDB•4d ago•6 comments

The computer that helped win World War II

https://spectrum.ieee.org/colossus-computer-ieee-milestone
158•baruchel•5d ago•66 comments

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/27/judge-rejects-googles-attempt-to-dmca-its-way-out-of-being-sc...
206•cdrnsf•4h ago•77 comments

Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

https://usefeyn.com/blog/feynobg/
75•snyy•5h ago•21 comments

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

https://eaton-works.com/2026/07/27/my-eicher-hack/
116•EatonZ•7h ago•36 comments

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

https://misago-project.org/t/removing-reactjs-from-the-codebase-and-adapting-htmx-for-ui-interact...
204•Ralfp•12h ago•148 comments

Bytecode-to-Source Mapping

https://tidefield.dev/bytecode-to-source-mapping/
28•evakhoury•4h ago•1 comments

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_009.pdf
152•laurensr•8h ago•20 comments

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/
204•migmartri•5h ago•107 comments

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64
171•klaussilveira•12h ago•21 comments

Building GCC 1.27 (2019)

http://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/01/building-gcc-127.html
8•ciponi•5d ago•1 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN
1•Old_Thrashbarg•5h ago

Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people

https://quantixed.org/2022/05/19/colorblind-checking-figure-accessibility-for-colour-blind-people/
4•sebg•4d ago•0 comments

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-t...
20•quantified•39m ago•4 comments

Forth

https://xkcd.com/3277/
42•beardyw•2h ago•10 comments

How real are real numbers? (2004)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
38•surprisetalk•7h ago•22 comments

Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks

https://pranitha.dev/posts/tokio-gives-progress-not-ordering/
33•pranitha_m•7h ago•2 comments

VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-unity
147•martz•13h ago•43 comments

US DOT deleting bike lane references

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5900901/bike-lanes-dot-websites
61•aendruk•1h ago•45 comments

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html
433•tomlockwood•11h ago•329 comments

Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

https://www.theverge.com/games/967174/steam-game-malware-cryptostealer-arrest
19•rzk•1h ago•8 comments

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts

https://en.andros.dev/blog/d7ed8b07/modern-email-can-be-built-from-borrowed-parts/
164•andros•14h ago•91 comments

The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist-who-colored-ghibli
91•herbertl•4h ago•8 comments

Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/07/towards-a-theory-of-bugs-the-ruliology-of-the-unexpec...
61•nsoonhui•3d ago•35 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/