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FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/21/fawk-llms-can-write-a-language-interpreter.html
144•todsacerdoti•6h ago•121 comments

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI

https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3
280•mseri•9h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

https://wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0
8•a-fadil•9m ago•1 comments

Making a Small RPG

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/making-a-small-rpg
48•ibobev•3h ago•15 comments

Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch

https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/building-a-minimal-viable-armv7-emulator/
45•xnacly•3h ago•6 comments

It's hard to build an oscillator

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/its-hard-to-build-an-oscillator
158•chmaynard•8h ago•60 comments

Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/science/bees-visual-stimulus-study-scli-intl
120•Brajeshwar•6d ago•52 comments

Nano Banana Pro

https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
1171•meetpateltech•1d ago•641 comments

I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-converted-a-rotary-phone-into-a-meeting-handset/
103•todsacerdoti•1w ago•52 comments

My Favorite Math Problem

https://bytesauna.com/post/my-favorite-math-problem
20•mapehe•4d ago•8 comments

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

https://blog.google/products/android/quick-share-airdrop/
781•abraham•23h ago•477 comments

Open Source and Local Code Mode MCP in Deno Sandboxes

https://portofcontext.com
58•pmkelly4444•1w ago•22 comments

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
11•todsacerdoti•1h ago•3 comments

Roundtable (YC S23) Is Hiring Two Sales Development Representatives (SDRs)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roundtable/jobs/irJTEsg-sales-development-representative
1•timshell•4h ago

WebAssembly from the Ground Up

https://wasmgroundup.com/
206•gurjeet•6d ago•46 comments

EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627423
60•justin-reeves•3h ago•53 comments

FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices

https://fex-emu.com/
248•open-paren•1w ago•102 comments

Ancient Roman Glass Reveals a Hidden "Language"

https://nautil.us/ancient-roman-glass-reveals-a-hidden-language-1247932/
22•DrierCycle•6d ago•1 comments

XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox

https://www.xbox-scene.info/articles/announcing-xbmc-40-for-the-original-xbox-r64/
3•zdw•1h ago•0 comments

How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

https://www.heise.de/en/news/How-a-French-judge-was-digitally-cut-off-by-the-USA-11087561.html
153•i-con•4h ago•154 comments

Show HN: 32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100

https://littlemountainman.github.io/2025/11/17/tens/
53•autonomydriver•4d ago•11 comments

The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/qtile-window-manager/
44•stonecharioteer•9h ago•17 comments

Is C++26 getting destructive move semantics?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79817124/is-c26-getting-destructive-move-semantics
16•signa11•1h ago•7 comments

Over-regulation is doubling the cost

https://rein.pk/over-regulation-is-doubling-the-cost
288•bilsbie•17h ago•546 comments

New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS

https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos
290•kasajian•20h ago•137 comments

Show HN: Search London StreetView panoramas by text

https://london.publicinsights.uk
7•dfworks•22h ago•7 comments

Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/hilbert-space-treating-functions-as-vectors/
114•signa11•1w ago•44 comments

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/2025/11/19/encryption-in-duckdb
209•chmaynard•21h ago•24 comments

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops...
183•latexr•6h ago•110 comments

Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles

https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-okta-nextjs-0auth-security-vulnerability
348•ramimac•3d ago•135 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/