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WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement

https://wallhop.io/
28•TheWaffleHax•21m ago•9 comments

Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
97•softwaredoug•2h ago•16 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
348•Michelangelo11•3d ago•82 comments

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

https://housing.over.pizza/
161•JumpCrisscross•4h ago•60 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
218•oskarth•20h ago•42 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?

18•bjourne•48m ago•26 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
122•ingve•1d ago•19 comments

A minimal Rust TUI for managing GitHub repos and branches

https://github.com/jorgeandrecastro/github-workflow
4•drew0670•50m ago•1 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
142•Curiositry•9h ago•50 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
53•rafiss•1d ago•23 comments

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/
134•tosh•6h ago•46 comments

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
243•rociiu•14h ago•121 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
156•smokel•1d ago•36 comments

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

https://rea.tools/
696•modinfo•1d ago•303 comments

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

https://epoch.ai/publications/innovationeval
73•merksittich•1d ago•55 comments

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
92•ghuntley•10h ago•40 comments

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

https://werwolv.net/posts/macromedia_copy_protection/
34•speckx•1d ago•5 comments

Grieving the loss of details

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/grieving-the-loss-of-details/
341•signa11•4d ago•273 comments

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a
115•arkj•6h ago•81 comments

OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://openscad.org/
98•b-man•4d ago•85 comments

Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

https://ndstudio.gov/posts/say-hello-to-rampart
71•nateb2022•1d ago•29 comments

Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support

https://github.com/moritzwilksch/diffle
7•mwil1000•2d ago•1 comments

Bitwarden Dual License Model

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750
345•Cider9986•10h ago•246 comments

Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/research_fralinbiomed_upfhutelin.html
105•gmays•19h ago•78 comments

C for Rust programmers

https://bd103.dev/blog/2026-10-07-c-for-rust-programmers/
97•xyproto•2d ago•96 comments

Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/
248•john_alan•14h ago•218 comments

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
408•g-b-r•22h ago•265 comments

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/zhang-qibo
309•ortusdux•3d ago•74 comments

I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall

https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-pr...
212•colinprince•11h ago•504 comments

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-chernobyl-particles-reveal-unexpectedly-stable.html
127•geox•3d ago•49 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/