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I miss thinking hard

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard
286•jernestomg•3h ago•163 comments

Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product

https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
505•sberens•2d ago•221 comments

Data centers in space makes no sense

https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers
473•ajyoon•11h ago•575 comments

Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
250•deofoo•2d ago•39 comments

The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75

https://www.thedrive.com/news/youll-have-that-on-those-big-jobs-the-worlds-largest-zip-tie-is-nea...
72•PaulHoule•5d ago•35 comments

Deno Sandbox

https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox
394•johnspurlock•13h ago•129 comments

Agent Skills

https://agentskills.io/home
435•mooreds•17h ago•221 comments

Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game

https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/
93•banteg•2d ago•25 comments

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/xcode-26-point-3-unlocks-the-power-of-agentic-coding/
289•davidbarker•13h ago•234 comments

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/
359•ptorrone•15h ago•413 comments

Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy

https://foxmoss.com/blog/kurrat/
21•Agreed3750•3d ago•3 comments

High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon

https://spectrum.ieee.org/explore-stratosphere-diy-pico-balloon
7•jnord•3d ago•0 comments

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines

https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL
186•baotiao•12h ago•22 comments

221 Cannon is Not For Sale

https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/02/03/221-cannon-is-not-for-sale/
224•mecredis•14h ago•171 comments

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust

https://github.com/j178/prek
230•fortuitous-frog•14h ago•101 comments

1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/science/zapotec-tomb-mexico-scli-intl
92•breve•4d ago•15 comments

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
310•vikaveri•21h ago•500 comments

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

https://fortune.com/2026/02/03/famed-startup-incubator-y-combinator-to-let-founders-receive-funds...
115•shscs911•12h ago•166 comments

Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back

https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/history/
15•thunderbong•58m ago•4 comments

Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/01/27/exploring-different-keyboard-sensing-technologies
10•viraptor•6d ago•2 comments

Qwen3-Coder-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-coder-next
629•danielhanchen•15h ago•383 comments

FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774934.3786425
91•matt_d•10h ago•50 comments

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
901•AareyBaba•14h ago•468 comments

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
255•natebc•8h ago•117 comments

Bunny Database

https://bunny.net/blog/meet-bunny-database-the-sql-service-that-just-works/
278•dabinat•19h ago•112 comments

Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/puget-systems-most-reliable-hardware-of-2025/
116•zdw•4d ago•41 comments

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
150•XzetaU8•2d ago•98 comments

Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too

https://blogs.igalia.com/alice/reference-target-having-your-encapsulation-and-eating-it-too/
12•todsacerdoti•4d ago•0 comments

Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in...
152•numeri•2h ago•21 comments

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-11/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes
93•surprisetalk•14h ago•290 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•9mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•9mo 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•9mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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/