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It's OK to abandon your side-project

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/
21•hisamafahri•45m ago•5 comments

Flipdiscs

https://flipdisc.io
230•skogstokig•3d ago•43 comments

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
772•ca98am79•12h ago•397 comments

TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/
141•kweezar•7h ago•29 comments

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
472•koshyjohn•12h ago•342 comments

Self-updating screenshots

https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
277•bjhess•1d ago•41 comments

The Prompt API

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api
105•gslin•6h ago•65 comments

Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html
7•wslh•20h ago•2 comments

Three constraints before I build anything

https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
201•nervous_north•1d ago•30 comments

When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
117•ddrmaxgt37•1d ago•56 comments

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-so...
245•dd23•12h ago•52 comments

A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design

https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/
25•o4c•1d ago•2 comments

Box to save memory in Rust

https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/
126•emschwartz•3d ago•31 comments

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
83•myth_drannon•10h ago•14 comments

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
378•berkeleyjunk•11h ago•258 comments

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
297•kmdupree•18h ago•164 comments

The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucinat...
27•thunderbong•1h ago•9 comments

Mystery Cpuid Bit

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mystery-cpuid-bit/
12•userbinator•2d ago•1 comments

Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting

https://slicker.me/rust/ownership_and_borrowing_vs_reference_counting.html
4•vinhnx•1d ago•1 comments

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm
132•gurjeet•2d ago•72 comments

Chernobyl wildlife forty years on

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on
105•reconnecting•13h ago•32 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-am...
205•1659447091•11h ago•63 comments

Revocation of X.509 Certificates

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/24/revocation-of-x-509-certificates/
35•jandeboevrie•1d ago•7 comments

Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-magic-the-gathering-took-me-from-n2-to-japanese-fluency
131•pwim•3d ago•57 comments

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
660•jeremyccrane•16h ago•811 comments

EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code

https://github.com/evanklem/evanflow
64•evanklem2004•6h ago•25 comments

Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core

https://tingouw.com/blog/embedded/esp32/run_rust_on_app_core
67•MrBuddyCasino•3d ago•11 comments

The Military Rockets That Launched the Space Age (2023)

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/military-rockets-launched-space-age
8•radeeyate•1d ago•0 comments

Clay PCB Tutorial

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial
223•j0r0b0•16h ago•131 comments

Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics

https://thermodynamicsbook.com/
141•2DcAf•17h ago•36 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/