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Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise

https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
670•varunsharma07•8h ago•250 comments

Claude Platform on AWS

https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws
82•matrixhelix•3h ago•40 comments

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker
88•tokenburner•4h ago•8 comments

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055
311•indigodaddy•8h ago•315 comments

UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage
283•bookofjoe•11h ago•59 comments

Software Internals Book Club

https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html
40•aragonite•2h ago•7 comments

Productivity isn't about going faster

https://humanpro.co/articles/productivity-isnt-about-going-faster/
19•gx•1h ago•3 comments

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524042-a-lost-ancient-script-reveals-how-writing-as-we-know...
32•emot•4d ago•6 comments

Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig
43•tsiry•2d ago•2 comments

I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/
117•showmypost•8h ago•128 comments

Why Everyone's Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

https://gardinerbryant.com/psp-in-2026/
28•Kate0CoolLibby•2h ago•10 comments

Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html
256•downbad_•3d ago•75 comments

Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory

https://github.com/mamba-studio/TypedMemory
121•joe_mwangi•9h ago•26 comments

Boriel BASIC

https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/
9•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•0 comments

Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html
144•donohoe•15h ago•110 comments

GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
410•AnonGitLabEmpl•8h ago•418 comments

Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS

https://github.com/jameslockman/Griffin-PowerMate-Driver
62•classichasclass•7h ago•19 comments

Interaction Models

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
151•smhx•8h ago•21 comments

VGA Memory Access Is Complicated

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xxi-vga-memory-access-is-complica...
29•ingve•2d ago•4 comments

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html
225•zdw•1d ago•11 comments

Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone

https://gorillafund.org/mountain-gorillas/silverback-imfura-took-a-chance-and-ended-up-alone/
49•alex000kim•2d ago•13 comments

The rise and fall of snake oil

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/rise-and-fall-snake-oil
46•samizdis•4d ago•23 comments

Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale

https://interfaze.ai/blog/interfaze-a-new-model-architecture-built-for-high-accuracy-at-scale
125•yoeven•12h ago•31 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers

https://bild.ai/jobs
1•rooppal•11h ago

Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity

https://github.com/ab-613/opengravity
67•ab613•8h ago•20 comments

AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs

https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms
124•johnbarron•3d ago•57 comments

A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan

https://www.freerange.city/p/can-we-code-our-way-out-of-gentrification
15•burlesona•5h ago•58 comments

Abstract Machines for Logic Programs

https://chrisistyping.bearblog.dev/abstract-machines-for-logic-programs/
25•surprisetalk•2d ago•1 comments

CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html
384•adamnemecek•13h ago•108 comments

Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/arcadia-mayor-federally-charged-acting-illegal-agent-peoples...
9•737min•1h ago•1 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/