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If You Don't Design Your Career, Someone Else Will

https://gregmckeown.com/if-you-dont-design-your-career-someone-else-will/
102•TheAlchemist•2h ago•62 comments

The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251219-the-ancient-monuments-saluting-the-winter-solstice
52•1659447091•3h ago•32 comments

A guide to local coding models

https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude
455•mpweiher•15h ago•253 comments

Programming languages used for music

https://timthompson.com/plum/cgi/showlist.cgi?sort=name&concise=yes
70•ofalkaed•1d ago•23 comments

Deliberate Internet Shutdowns

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
210•WaitWaitWha•3d ago•93 comments

How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers

https://her.esy.fun/posts/0031-how-i-protect-my-forgejo-instance-from-ai-web-crawlers/index.html
52•todsacerdoti•21h ago•36 comments

Well Being in Times of Algorithms

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/well-being-algorithms/
19•articsputnik•2h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app
485•seinvak•20h ago•176 comments

Build Android apps using Rust and Iced

https://github.com/ibaryshnikov/android-iced-example
105•rekireki•10h ago•37 comments

Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/robotic-olaf-marks-new-era-of-disney-innovation/
208•ChrisArchitect•14h ago•86 comments

I'm just having fun

https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/
388•lemper•6d ago•163 comments

Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-exp...
73•taubek•2d ago•18 comments

Kernighan's Lever

https://linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php
76•xk3•2d ago•30 comments

Aliasing

https://xania.org/202512/15-aliasing-in-general
47•ibobev•6d ago•8 comments

Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/Channel_Errors
19•Pikamander2•3h ago•5 comments

Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript

https://www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flocking-quadtrees
58•lbj•6d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems

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25•anticlickwise•4h ago•3 comments

A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell

https://blog.ozeninc.com/resources/from-datasheet-to-demagnetization-a-guide-to-magnetizing-n48-m...
41•peter_d_sherman•5d ago•4 comments

CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally

https://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storage
266•rbanffy•21h ago•229 comments

Decompiling the Synergy: Human–LLM Teaming in Reverse Engineering [pdf]

https://www.zionbasque.com/files/papers/dec-synergy-study.pdf
3•matt_d•4d ago•0 comments

Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

https://rue-lang.dev/
165•ingve•15h ago•134 comments

More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425
96•A_D_E_P_T•15h ago•81 comments

Lightning: Real-time editing for tiled map data

https://felt.com/blog/lightning-tiles
15•hinting•5d ago•3 comments

ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16

https://ym2132.github.io/ONNX_MLProgram_NN_exploration
74•Two_hands•12h ago•15 comments

A Year of Vibes

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/
4•lumpa•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rust/WASM lighting data toolkit – parses legacy formats, generates SVGs

https://eulumdat.icu
34•holg•15h ago•0 comments

I program on the subway

https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway
233•evankhoury•5d ago•164 comments

Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam

https://gearsco.de/blog/bit-array-syntax/
29•crowdhailer•3d ago•1 comments

Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/
396•alentodorov•20h ago•105 comments

QBasic64 Phoenix 4.3.0 Released

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4244
44•jandeboevrie•5h ago•5 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•8mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•8mo 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•8mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo 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/