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Go Concurrency Distilled

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/
110•chmaynard•14h ago•36 comments

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
359•Qision•1d ago•199 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978
203•shenli3514•10h ago•61 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw
234•jpwalsh234•12h ago•68 comments

If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/
89•signa11•1h ago•19 comments

OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

https://swarmcha.se/posts/openai-unctad
20•intunderflow•4h ago•8 comments

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

https://dashbit.co/blog/evolving-ai-era
67•pjm331•2d ago•41 comments

What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen
65•kspacewalk2•2h ago•10 comments

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/
55•apsec112•1d ago•61 comments

Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model

https://www.privatemode.ai/blog/system-one-from-glm-flash
69•flxflx•13h ago•26 comments

Does Georgism work? Five years later

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
223•silveraxe93•1d ago•148 comments

Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue

https://francisbach.com/spectral_log_density_estimation/
13•matt_d•1d ago•0 comments

Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/snap-wants-to-be-a-state-actor-kansas-v-snap.htm
37•hn_acker•1d ago•7 comments

Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-tangent-cordic.html
56•pwg•11h ago•7 comments

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
140•momentmaker•2d ago•26 comments

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages

http://jimmyhmiller.com/change-our-languages
27•surprisetalk•1d ago•10 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent
134•parasitid•13h ago•36 comments

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-...
3•torutofu•16h ago•0 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story
372•ksec•19h ago•93 comments

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike

https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-might-not-be-quantum-but-its-math-is-quantumlike-20260923/
43•pseudolus•2d ago•14 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-...
206•MC995•1d ago•519 comments

Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2026/fup_26_116-enceladus-cassini-mikroben-s...
42•geox•1d ago•23 comments

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/how-i-changed-teaching-after-ai-managed
164•azhenley•2d ago•154 comments

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal
157•birdculture•2d ago•64 comments

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/welcome-to-the-medical-clinic-at-the-interplanetary-re...
62•bucket2015•9h ago•11 comments

The Evolution of Vending Machines

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/from-holy-water-to-frozen-meals-the-evolution-of-vend...
27•ohjeez•12h ago•7 comments

Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview

https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move
17•fagnerbrack•4h ago•5 comments

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

https://ampdot.mesh.host/token-space-fonts.html
44•z-mach9•1d ago•10 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705
182•signa11•19h ago•237 comments

LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators

https://basin.la/articles/ninety-feet-a-minute.html
95•big_toast•2d ago•76 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/