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A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-scienc...
63•digital55•2h ago•8 comments

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
471•jjmaxwell4•4h ago•136 comments

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor

https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad
168•agreeahmed•5h ago•115 comments

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2
94•piotrgrabowski•5h ago•68 comments

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server

https://far.computer/how-to/
133•louismerlin•3d ago•56 comments

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
194•meetpateltech•6h ago•63 comments

Unifying our mobile and desktop domains

https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
24•todsacerdoti•5h ago•7 comments

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

151•Weves•8h ago•109 comments

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
250•pseudolus•10h ago•228 comments

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population
179•skx001•16h ago•106 comments

Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-coming-to-llvm-protecting-cryptogra...
23•ahlCVA•9h ago•5 comments

Python is not a great language for data science

https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for
80•speckx•6h ago•79 comments

The 101 of analog signal filtering (2024)

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-101-of-analog-signal-filtering
103•harperlee•4d ago•8 comments

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/
405•XzetaU8•16h ago•272 comments

Bad UX World Cup 2025

https://badux.lol/
107•CharlesW•4h ago•27 comments

Unison 1.0

https://www.unison-lang.org/unison-1-0/
140•pchiusano•3h ago•37 comments

Orion 1.0

https://blog.kagi.com/orion
316•STRiDEX•6h ago•179 comments

ZoomInfo CEO Blocks Researcher After Documenting Pre-Consent Biometric Tracking

https://github.com/clark-prog/blackout-public
23•SignalDr•2h ago•3 comments

Inflatable Space Stations

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/inflatable-space-stations/
50•bensouthwood•4d ago•17 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
180•davikr•10h ago•26 comments

Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management

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276•todsacerdoti•16h ago•81 comments

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
710•amichail•1d ago•285 comments

This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (2021)

https://blog.nns.ee/2021/04/01/modem-blog
39•xx_ns•2h ago•5 comments

Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2025/ozempic-does-not-slow-alzheimers-study-finds
116•danso•6h ago•63 comments

LPLB: An early research stage MoE load balancer based on linear programming

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/LPLB
27•simonpure•6d ago•0 comments

PRC elites voice AI-skepticism

https://jamestown.org/prc-elites-voice-ai-skepticism/
123•JumpCrisscross•1d ago•62 comments

Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse

https://www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-interview-backlash-analysis/
209•FiddlerClamp•6h ago•281 comments

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-fin...
92•indigodaddy•5h ago•20 comments

Broccoli Man, Remastered

https://mbleigh.dev/posts/broccoli-man-remastered/
142•mbleigh•6d ago•78 comments

Claude Advanced Tool Use

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
638•lebovic•1d ago•254 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•7mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•7mo 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•7mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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/