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Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/
570•speleo•9h ago•133 comments

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

https://veroniiiica.com/using-kagi-search-with-low-vision/
129•speckx•6h ago•20 comments

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/
164•speckx•6h ago•90 comments

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/
564•sofumel•16h ago•518 comments

The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store

https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/05/the-death-of-the-brick-and-mortar-toy-store/
13•speckx•2d ago•4 comments

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
282•apwheele•3d ago•210 comments

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone
96•d0ks•3h ago•59 comments

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

https://freenet.org/
194•sanity•11h ago•102 comments

The IBM-ification of Google?

https://zeroshot.bearblog.dev/google-is-shattering-under-its-own-weight-the-ibm-ification-of-google/
63•sabatonfan•2h ago•59 comments

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
291•asenna•11h ago•91 comments

Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

https://pacifichorticulture.org/articles/mycorrhizal-fungi-natures-key-to-plant-survival-and-succ...
34•mooreds•1d ago•3 comments

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
331•rbanffy•14h ago•158 comments

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/spotify-will-start-reserving-concert-...
103•elffjs•9h ago•204 comments

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

https://www.runtm.com/
67•gustrigos•9h ago•20 comments

Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/
413•root-parent•7h ago•168 comments

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test
285•pseudolus•14h ago•94 comments

Flipper One – we need your help

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/
1044•sandebert•14h ago•417 comments

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into...
251•mattas•9h ago•319 comments

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/uv-ux-mess/
71•nchagnet•4h ago•48 comments

BBEdit 16

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit16.html
268•qaz_plm•7h ago•83 comments

Google's Antigravity bait and switch

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch
537•ssiddharth•12h ago•267 comments

News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-arch...
214•jaredwiener•8h ago•80 comments

Vivaldi 8.0

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/
348•OuterVale•18h ago•231 comments

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

1•philippemnoel•8h ago

Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/
92•pvtmert•2d ago•44 comments

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

https://noslopgrenade.com/
501•napolux•16h ago•297 comments

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460
56•atomicthumbs•6h ago•5 comments

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

https://www.thek6project.co.uk/
70•Kaibeezy•7h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

60•adisingh13•9h ago•65 comments

Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6443103
133•vcf•12h ago•132 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/