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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
274•jamdesk•2h ago•210 comments

Thomann takes legal action against Fender

https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inside/thomann-takes-legal-action-against-fender/
99•Audiophilip•1h ago•39 comments

Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition

https://www.cwu.org/press_release/wikipedia-workers-to-seek-union-recognition/
57•addshore•2h ago•14 comments

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/
282•doener•5h ago•42 comments

We’re making Bunny DNS free

https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/
750•dabinat•11h ago•240 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw
107•dakshgupta•6h ago•79 comments

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247
408•shadowtree•4h ago•205 comments

Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-ph...
50•Brajeshwar•3h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub
161•colinmcd•6h ago•40 comments

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
263•mattnewton•1d ago•34 comments

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

https://statusdude.com/blog/zero-downtime-docker-compose
4•canto•16m ago•1 comments

Stealing Is a Skill

https://ben-mini.com/2026/stealing-is-a-skill
167•bewal416•7h ago•107 comments

Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/04/03/wine-on-astral.html
76•avaliosdev•5h ago•22 comments

Pull request limits are cutting down the noise

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request-limits-are-cutting-down-the-noise/
47•ingve•5d ago•35 comments

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

https://lookaway.com
14•_kush•7h ago•0 comments

I taught a bucket to speak Git

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit/
62•xena•4h ago•15 comments

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels
210•signa11•4d ago•46 comments

Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

https://www.monolisa.dev/
130•bebraw•2d ago•41 comments

I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code

https://posthog.com/blog/sql-parser
62•robbie-c•2h ago•28 comments

Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09498
49•jonnonz•2d ago•1 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-...
90•swolpers•3h ago•53 comments

Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

https://svpow.com/2026/06/04/genuinely-my-all-time-favourite-image-mamenchisaurus-hochuanensis/
71•surprisetalk•2d ago•26 comments

Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser

https://github.com/NotASithLord/peerd
45•NotASithLord•1d ago•16 comments

Why eval startups fail (2025)

https://thomasliao.com/eval-startups
81•jxmorris12•1d ago•51 comments

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps

https://eaton-works.com/2026/06/24/jnj-webapp-hacks/
17•EatonZ•4h ago•0 comments

Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions

https://rworks.dev/posts/too-many-R-packages/
84•ionychal•9h ago•71 comments

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward

https://techstrong.ai/articles/for-most-of-the-world-open-source-ai-is-the-only-way-forward/
168•CrankyBear•5h ago•111 comments

Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-do...
134•connorboyle•4h ago•46 comments

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116806641273303255
19•speckx•56m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB

https://pure-effect.org
49•tie-in•3d ago•11 comments
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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/