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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/
242•speckx•2h ago•149 comments

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion

https://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/
26•firephox•35m ago•3 comments

We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies

https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-light-pollution
86•defrost•2h ago•43 comments

Airport Simulator

https://airport.apunen.com/
317•apunen•5h ago•85 comments

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering

https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html
60•var0xyz•1h ago•35 comments

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

https://github.com/search
54•DemiGuru•1h ago•11 comments

ECC and DDR5

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/07/19/ecc-ddr5/
61•zdw•23h ago•36 comments

Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-wit...
290•infosecau•7h ago•156 comments

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free...
273•rapnie•3h ago•146 comments

Inertia-1: An Open Exploration to a Unified Motion Foundation Model

https://yang-ai-lab.github.io/Inertia-1/
28•hasheddan•2h ago•0 comments

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/frontier-lab-economics/
4•cl42•29m ago•0 comments

Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note (2017)

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/satans-19th-century-bank-note
23•Caiero•14h ago•1 comments

Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai
3•simonebrunozzi•14m ago•0 comments

I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

https://extensionranker.com/blog/chrome-extension-title-changes-rankings
6•Joseph_Hu•42m ago•0 comments

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/
66•benwerd•1h ago•77 comments

Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models

https://www.soofi.info/
14•Fake4d•2h ago•7 comments

The Voice of Google

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-voice-of-google
3•littlexsparkee•27m ago•0 comments

Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode

https://wren.wtf/shower-thoughts/stop-using-opencode/
259•alekq•2h ago•182 comments

Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes

https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-07-sensing-warm-and-cool-how-body-detects-temperature-changes
29•hhs•2d ago•4 comments

NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide

https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_Signals%3A_A_Complete_Guide
4•at1as•42m ago•0 comments

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine
291•wertyk•15h ago•121 comments

Firefox 153.0 Beta

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0beta/releasenotes/
33•Erenay09•1h ago•21 comments

Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/sealed-tomb-of-a-high-official-or-priest-filled-with-pa...
103•isaacfrond•5d ago•70 comments

What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/rh
63•mb1699•2d ago•14 comments

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms
3•ibobev•1h ago•0 comments

Primate 0.40: Route pages, store enums, async schemas and events

https://primate.run/blog/primate-040
7•terrablue•6d ago•3 comments

Shinjuku Station in 3D

https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/
10•Gecko4072•2h ago•0 comments

Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: Aha Scientific Statement

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001454
11•brandonb•42m ago•0 comments

Model 4: Our best model yet for local dictation and cleanup on Mac

https://www.epilude.com/news/introducing-model-4
4•oakst•1h ago•0 comments

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-reviews-ice-detention-centers/
28•robtherobber•32m ago•6 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/