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Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming

https://bazzite.gg/
122•doener•2h ago•58 comments

Landlock-Ing Linux

https://blog.prizrak.me/post/landlock/
101•razighter777•3h ago•29 comments

All it takes is for one to work out

https://alearningaday.blog/2025/11/28/all-it-takes-is-for-one-to-work-out-2/
278•herbertl•4h ago•155 comments

Be Like Clippy

https://be-clippy.com/
199•Aloha•5h ago•133 comments

Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34512
24•hhs•1h ago•18 comments

Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals

https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html
100•Zen1th•5h ago•15 comments

Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?

https://github.com/shun126/livelinkface_arkit_receiver/wiki
29•happy-game-dev•2d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana

https://github.com/gavrielc/Nano-PDF
87•GavCo•4h ago•16 comments

Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2025-11-25-stackoverflow/
29•tensegrist•4d ago•19 comments

Scala

https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
9•onestay42•1h ago•0 comments

The Origins of Scala (2009)

https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala
47•todsacerdoti•5h ago•24 comments

An update on the Farphone's battery

https://far.computer/battery-update/
54•louismerlin•1d ago•41 comments

Rare X-ray images of a 4.5-ton satellite that returned intact from space

https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/eureca-satellit-mit-roentgenmethoden-untersucht
53•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•6 comments

Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass

https://www.core77.com/posts/138925/Testing-Shows-Automotive-Glassbreakers-Cant-Break-Modern-Auto...
74•surprisetalk•9h ago•71 comments

Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22900
53•victorbuilds•7h ago•62 comments

Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux

94•grigio•5d ago•32 comments

Zero knowlege proof of compositeness

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/29/zkp-composite/
83•ColinWright•7h ago•26 comments

Datacenters in space aren't going to work

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
107•mindracer•11h ago•106 comments

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-a...
490•fleahunter•13h ago•470 comments

Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773097
110•ndesaulniers•6d ago•52 comments

The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2025-11-27-crdt-dictionary/
157•birdculture•12h ago•18 comments

AccessOwl (YC S22) Is Hiring a Technical Account Manager (IAM)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/accessowl/jobs/dGC3pcO-technical-account-manager-identity-a...
1•philipeller•8h ago

We're learning more about what Vitamin D does

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/21/1128206/vitamin-d-bodies-bone-health-immune/
117•Brajeshwar•8h ago•105 comments

Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025

https://posthog.com/blog/nov-24-shai-hulud-attack-post-mortem
69•makepanic•3d ago•57 comments

Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan has advanced urban planning, metallurgy

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/bronze-age-mega-settlement-in-kazakhstan/
116•CGMthrowaway•1w ago•29 comments

Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's

https://bourdain.greg.technology/
218•gregsadetsky•3d ago•70 comments

Hachi: An Image Search Engine

https://eagledot.xyz/hachi.md.html
123•warangal•11h ago•14 comments

1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation (2001) [pdf]

https://emudev.org/docs/1964-recompiling-engine-documentation.pdf
3•davikr•4d ago•0 comments

Europe's New War on Privacy

https://unherd.com/2025/11/europes-new-war-on-privacy/
105•joecobb•4h ago•33 comments

DNS LOC Record (2014)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-dns-loc-records/
128•mikejeays•11h ago•33 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/