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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
212•automatoney•2h ago•54 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x
286•zhoutong•7h ago•63 comments

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack
160•cimi_•6h ago•81 comments

Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why...
117•speckx•2h ago•31 comments

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-t...
124•thewebguyd•2h ago•84 comments

Buckminster Fuller: everything I know

https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/
95•simonebrunozzi•6h ago•30 comments

Dates That Don't Exist (2015)

https://blog.yossarian.net/2015/06/09/Dates-That-Dont-Exist
74•EndXA•3d ago•49 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead
1•truemetricsIngo•50m ago

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/
233•tosh•11h ago•45 comments

Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026

https://solarquarter.com/2026/08/03/germany-records-historic-12-billion-kwh-solar-feed-in-in-july...
106•johnbarron•4h ago•119 comments

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/
414•surprisetalk•5h ago•481 comments

Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019)

https://www.righto.com/2019/07/looking-inside-1970s-prom-chip-that.html
27•Jimmc414•3d ago•5 comments

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412
79•sbulaev•7h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup
94•MakazhanAlpamys•6h ago•15 comments

Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-love-etymologies
77•benbreen•3d ago•16 comments

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet
279•leonickson•1d ago•128 comments

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-OpIbLUOU0
28•evakhoury•5d ago•7 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
606•milkshakes•1d ago•891 comments

Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/rebuilding-wordle-stats-from-whatsapp/
17•surprisetalk•1d ago•4 comments

LLMs reward expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
1266•MaxMussio•20h ago•518 comments

The AI Demand Bubble

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/
69•7777777phil•1h ago•28 comments

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

https://www.science.org/content/article/odd-shapes-hidden-dense-amazon-rainforest-reveal-sprawlin...
252•marojejian•6d ago•187 comments

Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality

https://github.com/david-g-3654/homebench
49•davai-g•8h ago•5 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
294•pmg101•18h ago•106 comments

Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons

https://www.reuters.com/science/webb-telescope-finds-signs-ancient-disaster-neptunes-moons-2026-0...
19•Teever•1h ago•3 comments

Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

https://learning-rust.github.io
37•dumindunuwan•7h ago•7 comments

Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/americas/amazon-archaeology-geoglyphs.html
41•wglb•3d ago•11 comments

It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/07/its-not-fear-of-ai-communism-its-fear.html
11•speckx•3h ago•7 comments

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

https://mosh.org/elevator.txt
38•gavide•2d ago•15 comments

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/
645•meysamazad•6h ago•395 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/