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`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/
59•baal80spam•54m ago•33 comments

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

https://rea.tools/
446•modinfo•10h ago•175 comments

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
188•g-b-r•7h ago•88 comments

Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
1244•ilreb•21h ago•631 comments

WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

https://tonym.us/wsl2-vs-wsl3-benchmarks.html
44•tonymet•2d ago•18 comments

Triple-A Minesweeper

https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
1002•robin_reala•18h ago•197 comments

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/zhang-qibo
168•ortusdux•2d ago•39 comments

Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/research_fralinbiomed_upfhutelin.html
44•gmays•5h ago•25 comments

Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator

https://typeincube.com/
18•eustoria•1d ago•1 comments

Computers Cannot Make Decisions

https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:computers_cannot_make_decisions
90•heavensteeth•4h ago•76 comments

Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-use-autoregressive-diffusion-to-generate-market-data/
94•jsomers•19h ago•27 comments

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

https://carrierexplode.com/
333•simplyalec•16h ago•42 comments

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

https://typesafe.ai/blog/series-ai
379•tosh•17h ago•277 comments

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

https://lwn.net/Articles/1055211/
83•peter_d_sherman•11h ago•18 comments

How to head into VR without wearing a headset

https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researches/view/414/
35•Betelbuddy•3d ago•15 comments

I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again

https://baty.net/posts/2026/10/i-tried-to-move-my-notes-out-of-emacs-i-failed/
34•speckx•2d ago•32 comments

Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants

https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/clinical-trial-prion-disease-drug-candidate-begins-enrolling-...
76•luu•10h ago•13 comments

Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

https://www.datocms.com/blog/handling-less-common-scripts
4•steffoz•3d ago•0 comments

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives/
148•piratebroadcast•23h ago•76 comments

What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/what-mathematicians-should-know-about-the-lean-theorem-...
120•matt_d•17h ago•23 comments

Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/2108594998656807078
125•bilsbie•17h ago•141 comments

Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux

https://oss.lsantos.dev/proton-drive-linux-fs/
86•khaosdoctor•2d ago•30 comments

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-and-gromit-90-alone
220•vinhnx•20h ago•29 comments

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73426-0
86•bushwart•3d ago•36 comments

Our $445M Series D

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d
661•ahlCVA•21h ago•296 comments

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

https://gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid-him-a-visit-after-he-built-flock-style-camera-to-trac...
578•gumby•13h ago•312 comments

Vegetative Electron Microscopy WTF? (2025)

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/vegetative-electron-microscopy.html
16•adunk•1d ago•1 comments

Sorry, I'm in a meeting

https://iminafleeting.com/
914•splintersio•1d ago•256 comments

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

https://readrare.com/
135•miletus•17h ago•48 comments

Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond

https://shrub.industries/words/problem.html
17•shrub900•3d ago•3 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/