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Mistral Large 4

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0
295•funnym0nk3y•2h ago•82 comments

Meta hit with $25B penalty for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

https://nmdoj.gov/press-release/the-new-mexico-department-of-justice-secures-another-landmark-vic...
175•DeepLogin•2h ago•39 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...
506•ejohnso49•5h ago•244 comments

GitLab Remote Code Execution - Integer Overflow issue

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
111•artooro•2h ago•25 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
347•abhisek•7h ago•117 comments

Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/19/why-windows-11-still-ships-with-windows-95s-memory-manag...
75•khalidkhair•1d ago•49 comments

Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
766•hkc•12h ago•377 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
326•nnx•7h ago•36 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
183•kuberwastaken•2h ago•162 comments

EA is shutting down BioWare

https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware
387•aaronbrethorst•3h ago•239 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o
125•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•21 comments

Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/
199•nr378•7h ago•130 comments

Google's Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html
97•kaycebasques•2h ago•71 comments

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-waterfall-for-sale-lawmakers-996de63462d49ec3ad9bee1629fb9488
147•surprisetalk•6h ago•79 comments

New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic

https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/9/18/new-form-plastic-pollution-discovered-shores-vulne...
74•giuliomagnifico•5h ago•18 comments

PHP 8.2.35

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.2.35
917•tuyuri•7h ago•516 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/
182•armcat•8h ago•83 comments

No More Icons in Every Menu by Default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
6•riffraff•1d ago•0 comments

A Place Among the Fiddlers

https://longreads.com/2026/10/01/galax-old-fiddlers-convention-music/
11•gmays•1d ago•0 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
183•cbg0•3h ago•60 comments

Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data

https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-research-for-complex-biological-data/
113•raahelb•7h ago•59 comments

Canary Tokens

https://canarytokens.org/
74•wiradikusuma•2h ago•15 comments

Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation

https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-september-2026
98•scottfalconer•1d ago•103 comments

The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/the-bridge-to-agent-scale-git-infrastru...
40•Klaster_1•5h ago•9 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•9h ago

Potential third critical PHP CVE

https://elk.zone/m.webtoo.ls/@elise@katze.sh/117479383721672027
37•mpaepper•2h ago•13 comments

Your MCU likely escaped the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise

https://danielmangum.com/posts/mcu-emudhra-intermediate-ca-compromise/
46•hasheddan•5h ago•22 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet
21•zaevlad•1h ago•6 comments

After automation: Solo founding will be the default

https://every.to/thesis-statements/julian-weisser
37•rmason•1h ago•42 comments

Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro

https://www.pagetable.com/303
190•frizlab•2d ago•82 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/