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Qwen3-Coder-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-coder-next
158•danielhanchen•1h ago•54 comments

Agent Skills

https://agentskills.io/home
186•mooreds•3h ago•134 comments

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust

https://github.com/j178/prek
28•fortuitous-frog•51m ago•12 comments

What's up with all those equals signs anyway?

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/
428•todsacerdoti•7h ago•129 comments

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
71•XzetaU8•2d ago•39 comments

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

12•eduardpi•1h ago•2 comments

Bunny Database

https://bunny.net/blog/meet-bunny-database-the-sql-service-that-just-works/
116•dabinat•5h ago•53 comments

AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Was

https://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2026/02/02/AI-Copyright/
12•at1as•1h ago•0 comments

The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)

https://thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/the-everdeck/
30•surprisetalk•6d ago•9 comments

Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/files/pubs/safe-hdls.pdf
3•rachitnigam•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)

https://github.com/oug-t/difi
33•oug-t•3h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly

https://github.com/mavdol/capsule
32•mavdol04•2h ago•11 comments

Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html
211•GalaxySnail•12h ago•136 comments

GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests

https://blog.rbby.dev/posts/github-ai-contribution-blame-for-pull-requests/
27•rbbydotdev•2h ago•21 comments

Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants

https://www.wired.com/story/how-data-brokers-can-fuel-violence-against-public-servants/
45•achristmascarl•1h ago•9 comments

Emerge Career (YC S22) is hiring a product designer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/omqT34S-founding-product-designer
1•gabesaruhashi•5h ago

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
14•AareyBaba•41m ago•0 comments

The Codex App

https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
763•meetpateltech•23h ago•574 comments

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

https://safe-now.live
127•tinuviel•8h ago•55 comments

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

https://attheu.utah.edu/health-medicine/banning-lead-in-gas-worked-the-proof-is-in-our-hair/
229•geox•15h ago•160 comments

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610
513•trms•20h ago•203 comments

Athena Parthenos: A Reconstruction (2000)

http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Sculptures/Alone/Parthenos_reconstruction_x.htm
7•joebig•4d ago•0 comments

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

https://www.millert.dev/
568•wodniok•23h ago•293 comments

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog?

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
286•gyrovague-com•2d ago•122 comments

How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/
227•salkahfi•16h ago•70 comments

A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/01/a-whatsapp-bug-lets-malicious-media-files-spread-t...
25•iamnothere•2h ago•4 comments

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

https://www.githubstatus.com?todayis=2026-02-02
250•bhouston•19h ago•95 comments

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/
119•Imustaskforhelp•3d ago•201 comments

Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

91•blenderob•3h ago•91 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

296•whoishiring•1d ago•379 comments
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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•9mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•9mo 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•9mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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/