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Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/
194•pantalaimon•2h ago•36 comments

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-frog-derived-gut-bacterium
58•mpweiher•2h ago•10 comments

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
2160•kirushik•20h ago•623 comments

The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore

https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html
32•felixdoerp•1h ago•21 comments

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-newly-australian-ballista-spider-snare.html
92•chimpanzee•2d ago•21 comments

Claude Sonnet 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
1159•marinesebastian•18h ago•690 comments

ArXiv's Next Chapter

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/arxivs-next-chapter/
157•subset•9h ago•51 comments

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-au...
267•pjmlp•4h ago•168 comments

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

https://github.com/google/copybara
237•reconnecting•12h ago•44 comments

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/06/29/obfuscation1.html
8•fbrusch•1d ago•0 comments

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

https://ayushtambde.com/blog/matrix-orthogonalization-improves-memory-in-recurrent-models/
55•at2005•6h ago•6 comments

Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin

1•garriguv•2h ago

Claude Science

https://claude.com/product/claude-science
509•lebovic•19h ago•149 comments

Nano Banana 2 Lite

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/
395•minimaxir•19h ago•159 comments

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/pine64-pinevoice-riscv-smart-speaker-launch
53•edward•2h ago•14 comments

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material

https://www.dongascience.com/en/news/30374
13•mushstory•3h ago•4 comments

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341
741•Pragmata•12h ago•447 comments

Leanstral 1.5

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/leanstral-1-5-26-06
248•vetronauta•15h ago•96 comments

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

https://mechanical-pencil.com/products/car
216•Muhammad523•2d ago•38 comments

Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

https://hackernows.app/
11•maguszin•1h ago•8 comments

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/
262•HelloUsername•1d ago•84 comments

The first early human eggs from stem cells

https://www.conception.bio/science-and-updates/the-first-early-human-eggs-from-stem-cells
138•dsr12•7h ago•94 comments

Forestiere Underground Gardens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
77•onemoresoop•10h ago•18 comments

Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/06/pystd-standard-library-similar-ish.html
37•ibobev•4d ago•29 comments

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

https://ngrok.com/blog/i-ported-kubernetes-to-the-browser
292•peterdemin•15h ago•83 comments

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/
387•noleary•3d ago•80 comments

Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made

https://soranews24.com/2026/06/30/tokyo-has-only-two-barley-tea-makers-and-we-visited-one-to-see-...
148•zdw•16h ago•38 comments

Single header Parser Combinators for C

https://github.com/steve-chavez/CParseC
47•steve-chavez•8h ago•6 comments

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)

https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar
188•GL26•18h ago•54 comments

Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting

https://verdagon.dev/blog/ante-blending-borrowing-rc
103•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•24 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•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/