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Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
155•everfrustrated•2h ago•84 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
38•mrcslws•1h ago•16 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
74•energeticbark•2h ago•8 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
108•mezark•3h ago•7 comments

Building Principia for Windows XP

https://voxelmanip.se/2026/06/28/building-principia-for-windows-xp/
79•LorenDB•3h ago•16 comments

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
22•pepys•3d ago•7 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
112•rbanffy•6h ago•31 comments

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats
831•sambellll•15h ago•357 comments

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/
53•Brajeshwar•57m ago•7 comments

Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]

https://www.apollo.com/content/dam/apolloaem/pdf/daily-spark/2026/jun/28/062826-Mag7.pdf
135•mooreds•2h ago•100 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
52•cdrnsf•1h ago•10 comments

Tidal AI Policy

https://tidal.com/ai-policy
203•hn8726•3h ago•233 comments

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

https://twitter.com/i/status/2071277885646868536
177•notRobot•3h ago•75 comments

Decker Fantasy Camp 2026

https://itch.io/jam/decker-fantasy-camp-2026
15•RodgerTheGreat•2d ago•2 comments

CachyOS June 2026 Release

https://cachyos.org/blog/2606-june-release/
66•simonpure•3h ago•37 comments

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-an...
701•taubek•7h ago•95 comments

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-pr...
165•donohoe•5h ago•87 comments

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358
160•Risse•6h ago•454 comments

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

https://thomasdullien.github.io/guides/entrepreneurship/
124•nekitamo•4d ago•38 comments

The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming

https://thomaswc.com/blog/the_return_of_aop.html
16•thomaswc•3d ago•3 comments

Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/
127•kugelblitz•3h ago•71 comments

Type-checked non-empty strings

https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/haskell-koan-type-checked-non-empty-strings.html
39•surprisetalk•3d ago•18 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/
56•ingve•5h ago•29 comments

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

https://edera.dev/stories/numa-part-1-cores-memory-and-the-distance-between-them
101•sys_call•5d ago•19 comments

How we made WINDOW JOIN parallel and vectorized

https://questdb.com/blog/window-join-parallel-vectorized/
24•tosh•4d ago•2 comments

Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

https://philipbohun.com/blog/0011.html
56•pbohun•1h ago•66 comments

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

https://schamper.dev/dissecting-apples-sparse-image-format-asif/
138•supermatou•1d ago•20 comments

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026
859•arkhiver•13h ago•513 comments

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

https://blog.cloudflare.com/hyper-bug/
145•Pop_-•4d ago•65 comments

HamsterOS: A graphical desktop OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/hamsteros-crams-complete-graphical-desktop-onto-1-44-mb-floppy/
11•logickkk1•1h ago•4 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/