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Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
138•iamnothere•2h ago•60 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
127•FinalDestiny•2h ago•34 comments

I know why Mathematicians weep

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep
87•RickJWagner•1h ago•141 comments

Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort to Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematician...
23•aaraujo002•33m ago•9 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
22•rbanffy•29m ago•7 comments

Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

https://www.signalscorps.com/blog/prompt-injection-in-http-headers/
19•panoramas4good•56m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/
132•otherwatersflow•3h ago•86 comments

Things to know when you get cancer

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
1732•jjmaxwell4•20h ago•412 comments

Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/
85•jcomp•4h ago•6 comments

C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/
51•ibobev•2h ago•44 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
249•0xdeafbeef•2d ago•128 comments

The Haunted Toys R Us

https://www.retroist.com/p/the-haunted-toys-r-us
36•speckx•2d ago•19 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
773•gmays•18h ago•329 comments

GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS

https://github.com/konieczkow/gridsnap
17•zderror•2h ago•9 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
579•donohoe•17h ago•142 comments

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network
95•bookofjoe•1d ago•38 comments

Siri is so bad at everything

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1x6gz83/siri_is_so_bad_at_everything/
48•haunter•45m ago•25 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
882•doitLP•3d ago•627 comments

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

https://indigene.app/
84•olivierlacan•2d ago•14 comments

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/
24•ErenayDev•57m ago•9 comments

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

https://catchabird.com
320•eduardsik•3d ago•94 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-...
513•hubraumhugo•23h ago•484 comments

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b
262•gmays•15h ago•70 comments

The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/december/worlds-largest-eagle-hunted-unlike-any-other-bi...
6•EndXA•1d ago•0 comments

Creating a Garmin "MCP"

https://jackantico.io/garmin-mcp
42•ricotico060•1d ago•53 comments

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/
147•kennedn•2d ago•41 comments

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-sticky-alpine-darwin-year-carnivorous.html
79•maxall4•2d ago•35 comments

Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/long-on-research-short-on-bandwidth/
33•theHRTBeat•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: A 3D Configurator for Macropads

https://npad.ngrok.dev
4•alexandermkinn•2d ago•5 comments

Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2026/10/12/donaldson-futuro-house-in-idyllwild-california-usa/
76•rmason•1d ago•25 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/