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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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433•dmitrygr•7h ago•148 comments

Advent of Code 2025

https://adventofcode.com/2025/about
985•vismit2000•22h ago•318 comments

We've Detected Lightning on Mars

https://gizmodo.com/weve-detected-lightning-on-mars-for-the-first-time-2000691996
41•domofutu•4d ago•22 comments

DeepSeek releases open-weights math model with IMO gold medal performance

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2
109•victorbuilds•2h ago•31 comments

A Love Letter to FreeBSD

https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-25_freebsd_letter/
321•rbanffy•13h ago•195 comments

Writing a good Claude.md

https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md
540•objcts•17h ago•180 comments

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

https://sadservers.com/advent
231•lazyant•10h ago•61 comments

Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

https://www.jpt.sh/projects/trifold/
15•birdculture•1w ago•0 comments

X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200

https://www.tpart.net/about-x210ai/
98•walterbell•8h ago•35 comments

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]

https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/files/optimization.pdf
256•Anon84•11h ago•25 comments

N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics

https://trisolarchaos.com/?pr=lagrange&n=3&s=5.0&so=0.01&im=verlet&dt=5.00e-4&rt=1.0e-6&at=1.0e-8...
45•speckx•5d ago•10 comments

Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton

https://areweanticheatyet.com/
48•doener•4h ago•42 comments

AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon

https://techoreon.com/oregon-data-centers-water-use-nitrates-cancer-miscarriage/
22•ashishgupta2209•43m ago•6 comments

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_...
242•tamnd•6h ago•165 comments

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z

https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/
447•LorenDB•21h ago•228 comments

Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-repurpose-mosquito-proboscis-3d-nozzle.html
50•T-A•4d ago•24 comments

GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

https://eldred.fr/blog/forge-migration/
273•todsacerdoti•19h ago•103 comments

Migrating Dillo from GitHub

https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/
361•todsacerdoti•21h ago•189 comments

SmartTube Compromised

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82•akersten•6h ago•54 comments

Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD

https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly
56•modinfo•10h ago•4 comments

Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome

https://foxmoss.com/blog/dote/
59•foxmoss•3d ago•14 comments

Whole-body Learning in Creating Mathematical/Architectural Structures [pdf]

https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-523.pdf
3•surprisetalk•6d ago•0 comments

AI just proved Erdos Problem #124

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/124#post-1892
194•nl•1d ago•56 comments

ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025

https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
159•__rito__•17h ago•18 comments

Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12588
112•mkagenius•16h ago•33 comments

NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms

https://github.com/techomancer/nvme2k
78•zdw•5d ago•7 comments

ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Sentinel-1D_delivers_f...
109•giuliomagnifico•17h ago•32 comments

KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely

https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-to-drop-x11-support/
7•doener•44m ago•1 comments

Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/30/is-americas-jobs-market-nearing-a-cliff
195•harambae•10h ago•385 comments

It’s been a very hard year

https://bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year/
142•surprisetalk•5h ago•137 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/