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Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS

https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues/105
258•microtonal•3h ago•164 comments

Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI

https://github.com/ppmpreetham/BUI
346•ppmpreetham•5h ago•144 comments

Claude Code sends your email address to websites

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757
1284•motoroco•15h ago•405 comments

Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)

https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9096
65•hitekker•2h ago•22 comments

sshole

https://sshhole.com
2784•josemrb•1d ago•675 comments

We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years

https://github.com/Unleash/unleash
25•ivarconr•1h ago•12 comments

Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative

https://apps.metaebene.me/en/kugelblitz
129•luoc•5h ago•37 comments

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
592•kuberwastaken•16h ago•219 comments

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Research and Robotic Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs
1•chitianhao•1h ago

Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/tesla-to-wind-down-cybertruck-production-afte...
38•PLenz•1h ago•15 comments

From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/
149•jonbaer•9h ago•46 comments

Pwn.college

https://pwn.college/
199•tripdout•9h ago•28 comments

Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App

https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2026-0537
47•qtqtqt•5h ago•8 comments

Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap

https://worldstrike.fun/
88•n4ze3m•5h ago•58 comments

Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)

https://github.com/dsx-ai-factory/nvke
98•gkapur•10h ago•22 comments

The Hackintosh Reborn

https://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/
342•rubatuga•18h ago•190 comments

Inkling 2 Small

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/
228•Philpax•13h ago•74 comments

Window Sweaters

https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
383•nickswalker•20h ago•113 comments

Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

https://www.norvig.com/chomsky.html
17•andsoitis•5h ago•2 comments

Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/britain-make-salary-disclosure-job-ads-mandatory-2...
303•1659447091•5h ago•272 comments

Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/
518•monneyboi•21h ago•370 comments

Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM

https://firenook.dev/
143•sanjevirau•1d ago•19 comments

Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3

https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivet
105•NathanFlurry•20h ago•54 comments

I wish tech companies knew more about me

https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me
473•freetonik•23h ago•376 comments

September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/11/05/september-in-servo/
255•iamnothere•22h ago•65 comments

Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/pjit-21k
249•schopra909•1d ago•23 comments

Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
404•randycupertino•14h ago•184 comments

Download your favourite YouTube videos

https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/
370•surprisetalk•1d ago•178 comments

MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs

https://github.com/matthewmrichter/mooftcp
56•marcusbasant•12h ago•28 comments

Pangram Image 1.0

https://www.pangram.com/blog/introducing-pangram-image-1-0
123•gmays•17h ago•57 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/