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RuBee

https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html
202•Sniffnoy•6h ago•30 comments

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays

https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
875•ChrisArchitect•15h ago•117 comments

A One-Minute ADHD Test

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/a-one-minute-adhd-test-2330
26•eatitraw•2h ago•25 comments

Disney Lost Roger Rabbit

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/
139•leephillips•5d ago•35 comments

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

170•pugworthy•7h ago•87 comments

The Rust Performance Book (2020)

https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/
109•vinhnx•5d ago•8 comments

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D

https://microcad.xyz/
206•todsacerdoti•12h ago•55 comments

Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams

https://cruzgodar.com/applets/lambda-calculus
26•perryprog•4h ago•0 comments

Breakthrough in antimatter production

https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/breakthrough-antimatter-production
10•doener•4d ago•11 comments

Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8676qpxgnqo
57•1659447091•6h ago•91 comments

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS

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378•arianvanp•15h ago•159 comments

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries

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137•rbanffy•4d ago•42 comments

Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters

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99•wdpatti•6h ago•44 comments

Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies

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41•selvan•4h ago•20 comments

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10•paul2495•2h ago•3 comments

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11•lalitmaganti•17h ago•115 comments

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing

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139•radeeyate•6h ago•111 comments

Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months

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25•geox•3d ago•5 comments

Having Fun with Complex Numbers

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29•smm16r•5d ago•6 comments

Set theory with types

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49•baruchel•2d ago•11 comments

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]

https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf
293•o4c•16h ago•67 comments

Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets

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33•speckx•5d ago•1 comments

Passing the Torch – My Last Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony as Crypto Officer 4

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51•greyface-•7h ago•13 comments

Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C

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92•t9nzin•11h ago•25 comments

Murphyjitsu (2018)

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3•surprisetalk•5d ago•1 comments

Band of Holes

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28•user070223•5d ago•7 comments

Ego, empathy, and humility at work

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53•mrmatthogg•7h ago•15 comments

Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

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1•ashlleymo•10h ago

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2

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428•AshleysBrain•2d ago•58 comments

Pixar: The Early Days

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8•tosh•4d ago•1 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/