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1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
441•stephen-hill•3d ago•80 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
132•robinhouston•3d ago•24 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...
45•speckx•4h ago•25 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
487•calcifer•14h ago•284 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
136•ingve•9h ago•17 comments

Desmond Morris has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o
57•martey•4d ago•9 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
31•jxmorris12•1d ago•2 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
64•srean•3h ago•12 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
110•adunk•9h ago•17 comments

GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
96•Murfalo•6h ago•84 comments

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

https://getkloak.io/
11•neo2006•1h ago•3 comments

AI agents that argue with each other to improve decisions

https://github.com/rockcat/HATS
13•rockcat12•2h ago•4 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
93•mariuz•9h ago•38 comments

Commenting and approving pull requests

https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/
65•jwworth•2d ago•55 comments

What async promised and what it delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
85•zdw•3d ago•78 comments

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
58•keepamovin•9h ago•41 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
36•wslh•2d ago•10 comments

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp

https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/
8•varjag•2h ago•0 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
234•rbanffy•19h ago•123 comments

Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau

https://lute.luau.org/
17•vrn-sn•2d ago•5 comments

The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/stanford-students-power/686920/
10•apparent•43m ago•1 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
109•marvinborner•9h ago•34 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
302•pigeons•19h ago•41 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
501•alcazar•1d ago•127 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough Could Unlock a 150-Gigawatt Energy Revolution

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
9•sleepyguy•56m ago•5 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
39•hyperific•7h ago•5 comments

Panipat: The rise of the Mughals

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals
45•Thevet•3d ago•56 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
8•thehappyfellow•3h ago•0 comments

Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04
179•nickjj•4h ago•54 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
301•hhh•1d ago•91 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/