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EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/
30•NKosmatos•1h ago•7 comments

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
953•u1hcw9nx•13h ago•406 comments

A 386 PC for Your RP2350

https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-386
24•SamuraiLion•1h ago•6 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
239•zdw•4d ago•43 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
267•Cider9986•12h ago•129 comments

XCancel Taken Down Again

https://xcancel.com/#
34•gaganyaan•20m ago•10 comments

Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports

https://screensize.net/reports/viewport-stats
17•zenpe•2h ago•11 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
201•herbertl•10h ago•78 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
167•contact9879•9h ago•226 comments

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/prehistory-lost-threads
70•knowablemag•2d ago•21 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
158•ilamont•13h ago•215 comments

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

https://calif.io/research/oempocalypse
65•negura•7h ago•28 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

173•david927•16h ago•542 comments

OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures

https://github.com/anuj0456/OpenArch
7•anuj0456•2h ago•3 comments

Julia 1.13 highlights

https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
232•eigenspace•3d ago•21 comments

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
822•iamflimflam1•16h ago•362 comments

The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire

https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-gdr-and-vietnam-from-fake-coffee
82•NaOH•3d ago•39 comments

Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents

https://eterdb.com/
33•fdeth•3d ago•15 comments

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

https://www.threebodyorbits.com/
3•danielmorozoff•1d ago•0 comments

Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

https://danluu.com/exercise-7/
28•luu•3d ago•8 comments

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
87•walrus01•13h ago•10 comments

The Nature of Dance

https://vester.si/blog/nature-of-dance/
6•wonger_•2d ago•6 comments

Open-source AI and open models reading list

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list
112•simonpure•9h ago•22 comments

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

https://fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/
136•andsoitis•7h ago•179 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
168•chiassedu80•19h ago•90 comments

Five Words from Vanishing Fleece

https://blog.wordnik.com/five-words-from-vanishing-fleece
10•dan353hehe•2d ago•0 comments

'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/coltrane-review-sound-and-spirit-b2417282
13•Thevet•1d ago•1 comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228
66•rasengan0•8h ago•14 comments

Pkgsrc Is Cool (2022)

https://www.wisellama.rocks/posts/2021-12-23-pkgsrc-is-cool/
6•Tomte•18m ago•0 comments

AI Robots – When will they be in our homes

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robots
36•andsoitis•9h ago•37 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/