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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
206•HumanCCF•3h ago•133 comments

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
513•stared•6h ago•452 comments

Free the Icons

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/
81•zdw•2d ago•13 comments

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
332•everfrustrated•8h ago•205 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
126•danboarder•5h ago•27 comments

Is It Out Yet?

https://outyet.ai
29•partsch•1h ago•15 comments

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html
12•wglb•48m ago•1 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
212•mrcslws•7h ago•97 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
163•energeticbark•8h ago•25 comments

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/
90•chantepierre•3d ago•13 comments

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
44•neitsab•4h ago•12 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
375•cdrnsf•7h ago•176 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-hum...
19•jnord•46m ago•0 comments

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22283
78•Jimmc414•1d ago•10 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
190•mezark•9h ago•24 comments

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models
40•matt_d•5h ago•11 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
62•comma_at•8h ago•24 comments

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
165•xrd•1d ago•71 comments

Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base

https://github.com/mat-mgm/kb-prolog
4•triska•2d ago•0 comments

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html
47•kordlessagain•1d ago•6 comments

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/
320•Brajeshwar•6h ago•83 comments

Dark Sky Lighting

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting#whatisdarkskylighting
118•alexandrehtrb•4d ago•16 comments

One million passports leaked online

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-in...
84•jruohonen•1d ago•54 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
151•rbanffy•12h ago•38 comments

Font-Family Recommendations

https://chrismorgan.info/font-family
44•birdculture•3d ago•12 comments

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3819084
84•eatonphil•8h ago•38 comments

Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science/
59•markgavalda•18h ago•58 comments

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
50•pepys•3d ago•28 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/
87•ingve•11h ago•45 comments

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-pr...
326•donohoe•11h ago•156 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/