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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
797•minimaxir•7h ago•491 comments

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-no...
51•ProxyTracer•2h ago•11 comments

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

https://github.com/Tessil/hopscotch-map
56•gjvc•3h ago•8 comments

US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-releases-anthropic-model-mythos-some-us-companies-semafor-r...
165•bobrenjc93•2h ago•108 comments

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its...
781•alain94040•6h ago•888 comments

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-in...
253•justincormack•3d ago•143 comments

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm
104•kkm•3h ago•88 comments

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
182•hn_acker•3h ago•51 comments

A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels

https://healeycodes.com/a-tiny-compiler-for-data-parallel-kernels
18•healeycodes•1d ago•1 comments

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
27•rbanffy•2h ago•7 comments

The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum

https://svpow.com/2026/05/15/the-bizarre-headgear-exhibit-at-the-sam-noble-museum-is-incredible/
67•surprisetalk•3d ago•6 comments

Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbosify-py
10•KraftyOne•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

https://github.com/workweave/router
138•adchurch•8h ago•86 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://hightouch.com/careers#open-positions
1•joshwget•3h ago

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
230•rossant•13h ago•92 comments

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-wh...
79•Eridanus2•7h ago•15 comments

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
139•ortusdux•4h ago•84 comments

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

46•gcanyon•2h ago•34 comments

A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage

https://ngrok.com/blog/aol-was-down-1996
35•EndEntire•2d ago•7 comments

Om

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
26•throw0101a•1h ago•2 comments

Lippmann Photography

https://www.jonhilty.com/lippmann
16•andsoitis•2d ago•0 comments

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo
46•speckx•5h ago•20 comments

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

https://gossamer-lang.org/
65•mwheeler•6h ago•56 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for...
44•jfoucher•6h ago•5 comments

Modern GPU Programming for MLSys

https://mlc.ai/modern-gpu-programming-for-mlsys/
58•crowwork•3d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Autofit2 – End-to-end pipeline for multilingual text classification

https://github.com/neospe/autofit2
13•leschak•1d ago•1 comments

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying/
24•benbreen•4d ago•10 comments

LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

https://www.swiftlatex.com/
84•theanonymousone•3d ago•30 comments

My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/my-steam-machine-is-a-50ft-hdmi-cable/
160•speckx•3d ago•155 comments

Data centers trigger voter backlash

https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327
156•randycupertino•7h ago•285 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/