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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/
428•elisaado•6h ago•185 comments

Clay PCB Tutorial

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial
93•j0r0b0•1h ago•66 comments

Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
108•kmdupree•3h ago•76 comments

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

https://statecharts.dev/
215•sph•8h ago•61 comments

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubernetes/
22•Wingy•2d ago•9 comments

Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics

https://thermodynamicsbook.com/
22•2DcAf•2h ago•10 comments

Databases Were Not Designed for This

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases/
47•mooreds•1d ago•39 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-pr...
621•pr337h4m•1d ago•441 comments

Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/
138•yak32•3d ago•27 comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
344•chiefalchemist•17h ago•234 comments

The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)

https://blog.cynthia.re/post/nintendo-switch-ethernet-switch
56•zdw•1d ago•7 comments

GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666
117•luckman212•3h ago•47 comments

The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
909•milkglass•11h ago•583 comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
430•gwerbret•19h ago•79 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

438•_-x-_•16h ago•165 comments

Cheating at Tetris

https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/cheating-at-tetris/
51•t-3•4d ago•20 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html
137•zdkaster•14h ago•39 comments

Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/
71•Jach•1d ago•3 comments

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/
167•iamwil•2d ago•48 comments

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
246•Nrbelex•3d ago•135 comments

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelli...
1•kyriakosel•10h ago

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
62•subset•10h ago•9 comments

QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video]

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5479-raiders-of-the-lost-hard-drive/
16•rbanffy•4h ago•0 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
268•tanelpoder•3d ago•55 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
322•speckx•1d ago•210 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
357•robinhouston•4d ago•81 comments

The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game
64•jger15•3d ago•10 comments

My .config Ship of Theseus

https://shift1w.com/blog/config-of-theseus/
27•jacobwiseberg•2d ago•12 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/
135•offbyone42•17h ago•19 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
236•pavel_lishin•4d ago•163 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/