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I Stored a Website in a Favicon

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/
136•theanonymousone•4h ago•51 comments

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
133•moultano•6h ago•36 comments

Data Compression Explained (2012)

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
128•mtdewcmu•3d ago•17 comments

There are no instances in ATProto

https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
450•danabramov•19h ago•227 comments

Can you see three trees?

https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three-trees/
118•Pamar•2d ago•63 comments

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

https://www.ibm.com/think/news/discovery-changed-how-scientists-think-about-memory-kavli-prize
56•rbanffy•2d ago•13 comments

Surprising economics of load-balanced systems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2020/08/06/erlang.html
114•KraftyOne•13h ago•29 comments

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

https://arrowtsx.dev/bigger-models/
165•oshrimpton•18h ago•46 comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-32...
831•ck2•17h ago•362 comments

How many of the 170k English words do you know?

https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app/
377•abnry•20h ago•461 comments

Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

https://arcadeheroes.com/2026/06/13/world-cup-2026-soccer-arcade/
20•speckx•3d ago•4 comments

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/the-color-strike/
30•ohjeez•3d ago•5 comments

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/
671•ilreb•18h ago•472 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
595•philonoist•1d ago•368 comments

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll
379•pgrote•14h ago•42 comments

Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellit...
85•y1n0•6h ago•35 comments

Egyptian Fractions (2006)

https://blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-fractions.html
95•luu•4d ago•9 comments

A Perceptron in Age of Empires II

https://adewynter.github.io/notes/aoe2-circuits
76•EvgeniyZh•2d ago•31 comments

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077619/f7b07c5489fdd43a/
82•jwilk•17h ago•56 comments

Court Records Should Be Free

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/court-records-should-be-free
376•hn_acker•16h ago•82 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
261•jxmorris12•4d ago•92 comments

John Jumper to join Anthropic

https://twitter.com/JohnJumperSci/status/2068001285173834106
134•artninja1988•16h ago•101 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
150•mplappert•1d ago•52 comments

Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem

https://digitalorientalist.com/2017/08/21/digital-printing-of-arabic-explaining-the-problem/
56•a_t48•3d ago•27 comments

Telescope Ranchers

https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
125•bookofjoe•3d ago•49 comments

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

https://metiq.space
125•rakeda•3d ago•33 comments

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

112•amichail•11h ago•188 comments

Big Banana Car

https://bigbananacar.com/
156•Bender•16h ago•79 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
306•saisrirampur•4d ago•86 comments

The AirPods Effect

https://www.theescapenewsletter.com/p/the-airpods-effect
413•herbertl•1d ago•722 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/