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AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill.

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
120•layer8•1h ago•102 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
380•ilreb•6h ago•216 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
339•prophittcorey•6h ago•149 comments

Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
36•pngmangi•1h ago•0 comments

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

https://phreak.ing/
26•rickcarlino•1h ago•1 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
50•zdw•3h ago•5 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
354•Zeekaas•10h ago•576 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
38•speckx•3h ago•4 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
396•whimblepop•4h ago•217 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

76•vishnukool•6h ago•57 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
229•djfergus•10h ago•56 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
235•scrlk•10h ago•281 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
479•meetpateltech•6h ago•256 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
208•gregsadetsky•2d ago•80 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
215•bookofjoe•2d ago•170 comments

Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

https://brickbrag.com/
11•neuling•1h ago•5 comments

Does Fast Mode Do Anything?

https://doesfastdoanything.com/
5•luu•1d ago•1 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
282•gumby•5h ago•236 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
109•surprisetalk•7h ago•33 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
80•speckx•8h ago•69 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
256•deadxwarrior•16h ago•137 comments

Thinking will become a hobby

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
194•pranitha_m•6h ago•251 comments

Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34

https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332
22•austinallegro•42m ago•2 comments

America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025)

https://www.thetravel.com/americas-longest-highway-tunnel-not-for-faint-of-heart/
6•NaOH•1d ago•3 comments

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
86•PaulHoule•4h ago•62 comments

Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac
48•SaarthRanka•22h ago•5 comments

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-tool-rich-hickey-kjl8e
144•svieira•4h ago•71 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
232•lukaslalinsky•17h ago•82 comments

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
72•speckx•4h ago•11 comments

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
62•signa11•2d ago•79 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/