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iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
778•thecosmicfrog•5h ago•1538 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
842•EdwinHoksberg•10h ago•336 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
315•evakhoury•1d ago•196 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
342•awad•5h ago•281 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/
241•meetpateltech•5h ago•251 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
263•Limb•7h ago•272 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
162•bookofjoe•6h ago•270 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
321•ModelForge•8h ago•116 comments

Apple Watch Series 12

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-...
187•Lealen•5h ago•211 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3
156•wsxiaoys•6h ago•63 comments

GNU Radio in the browser

https://gnuradioworld.com/
161•kristianpaul•7h ago•22 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
374•willwhitedc•11h ago•88 comments

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
141•davidfischer•7h ago•47 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
342•xlii•11h ago•206 comments

Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)

https://labguysworld.com/Project_ESCRTs_001.htm
6•userbinator•1d ago•0 comments

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html
133•marklit•7h ago•25 comments

South Park creators rename show 'South America'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9340rg7k8o
75•hermitcrab•1h ago•14 comments

Use Vsock with Libzmq

https://blog.remijouan.net/posts/libzmq-vsock-pyzmq/
14•remijouannet•2d ago•1 comments

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

https://blog.hofstede.it/bespoke-a-programming-language-for-people-who-say-please/
107•birdculture•3d ago•25 comments

Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y75dl0jpko
39•bookofjoe•2d ago•8 comments

Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09153
39•omarsar•6h ago•12 comments

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

https://ai.meta.com/muse/
635•yks•1d ago•693 comments

Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

https://opusfived.dev/
953•matthieu_bl•13h ago•385 comments

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/once-popular-for-attacking-ai-ascii-smuggling-is-embrace...
31•utiiiD•4d ago•17 comments

Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up

https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-consult-speed-async-searche-grep-ripgrep-fd-find/
44•mpweiher•6h ago•16 comments

What will our economic future look like?

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios
156•oumua_don17•9h ago•285 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments

https://github.com/OtoDock/oto-dock
35•dimitrismrtzs•5h ago•8 comments

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme
162•ChrisArchitect•3d ago•79 comments

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/KuVVqSh-content-systems-builder-editor
1•zman0225•11h ago

Generating the P3 Tiling

https://k-monk.org/blog/generating-the-p3-tiling/
36•evakhoury•1d ago•5 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/