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There Are No Instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
110•danabramov•3h ago•53 comments

Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle

https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/linear-a/
173•Kosturdistan•2h ago•66 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
159•ck2•1h ago•88 comments

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1
38•Michelangelo11•25m ago•20 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
455•philonoist•11h ago•261 comments

A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-onlin...
45•hn_acker•52m ago•13 comments

Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access

https://tales.fromprod.com/2026/169/google-workspace-threatening-to-block-firefox.html
113•birdculture•1h ago•44 comments

The Productivity J-Curve [pdf] (2018)

https://ide.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/jcurve.pdf
35•kioku•3d ago•9 comments

This 1976 University Experiment Spun Up the U.S. Wind Industry

https://spectrum.ieee.org/william-heronemus-wind-energy
15•pseudolus•4d ago•0 comments

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
363•marklit•3d ago•118 comments

Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability

https://www.techspot.com/news/112831-microsoft-confirms-weird-recycle-bin-bug-windows-11.html
14•speckx•33m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
24•rakeda•3d ago•6 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
41•bookofjoe•3d ago•14 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
194•jxmorris12•3d ago•65 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
219•saisrirampur•3d ago•64 comments

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operatin...
312•speckx•4d ago•48 comments

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/
906•theorchid•1d ago•238 comments

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-15-gribouille-0-3/
183•mcanouil•4d ago•67 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
316•herbertl•19h ago•549 comments

Show HN: Modeloop – From visual algorithms to microcontroller C code

https://www.modeloop.app/
25•lucamark•4d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages

https://github.com/Amal-David/pagecast
6•amaldavid•22h ago•3 comments

Reinventing the Renaissance

https://drb.ie/article/reinventing-the-renaissance/
24•Petiver•2d ago•7 comments

Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master

https://akse3d-en.skaperiet.no
110•joachimhs•4d ago•33 comments

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/
241•niyikiza•20h ago•95 comments

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

https://arun.is/blog/jr-logo/
157•ddrmaxgt37•2d ago•127 comments

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/
530•FergusArgyll•1d ago•159 comments

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas
390•ksec•1d ago•327 comments

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/
414•ibobev•1d ago•59 comments

Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand

https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/
1•thedogeye•17h ago

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html
143•skogstokig•4d ago•99 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/