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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
633•cbeuw•15h ago•381 comments

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | GitHub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqx8NNT4xY
44•doppp•4d ago•5 comments

The Book of PF, 4th edition

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
4•0x54MUR41•58m ago•0 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
133•l1n•7h ago•75 comments

Sometimes Your Job Is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/sometimes-your-job-is-to-stay-the-hell-out-of-the-way/
9•ohjeez•4d ago•0 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
149•ingve•12h ago•85 comments

pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
48•tanelpoder•3d ago•7 comments

Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1157741/
14•nill0•3d ago•1 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/
137•ColinWright•11h ago•57 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
55•marojejian•8h ago•15 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)

https://opentrees.org/#pos=1/-37.8/145
68•surprisetalk•4d ago•6 comments

Outsourcing thinking

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html
138•todsacerdoti•11h ago•121 comments

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/
208•CrossVR•3d ago•48 comments

EV-1 for Lease (1996)

https://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=96-P13-00047#feature4
23•1970-01-01•2d ago•2 comments

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.

https://github.com/zupat/related_post_gen
91•behnamoh•11h ago•41 comments

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

https://www.moltbook.com/
202•schlichtm•3d ago•826 comments

Sparse File LRU Cache

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html
24•paladin314159•7h ago•2 comments

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-m...
144•qmr•17h ago•127 comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

https://crl.io/ds-game-engine/
127•Antibabelic•14h ago•32 comments

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
596•Teever•15h ago•425 comments

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images

https://github.com/rtvkiz/minimal
87•ritvikarya98•12h ago•26 comments

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

https://webkit.org/blog/17758/when-will-css-grid-lanes-arrive-how-long-until-we-can-use-it/
25•feross•9h ago•10 comments

Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

https://lab174.com/blog/202601-nonograms/
30•merelysounds•4d ago•6 comments

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21473
70•matt_d•12h ago•16 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
164•pieterr•16h ago•117 comments

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_mickens.pdf
113•tosh•12h ago•23 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
195•yufiz•4d ago•45 comments

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust
278•behnamoh•10h ago•259 comments

Wikipedia: Sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
74•zaptrem•1d ago•26 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/ZunnO6k-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•11h ago
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/