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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
404•explosion-s•2h ago•138 comments

Zed: Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
67•khy•43m ago•9 comments

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug
505•ropbear•4h ago•80 comments

Qwen3.8-2.4T

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
242•Philpax•4h ago•66 comments

2026 Eclipse Webcams

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
408•zoenolan•7h ago•104 comments

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html
143•doener•4h ago•23 comments

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

https://knownagents.com/insights
146•gavinhking•5h ago•93 comments

Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

https://climate.metoffice.cloud/glaciers.html
60•mooreds•2h ago•5 comments

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ef4968f5/html-over-websockets-real-time-spas-with-barely-any-javascript/
40•redbell•2h ago•29 comments

Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reflex/jobs/71x5GFb-growth-engineer
1•apetuskey•2h ago

Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/
175•gutechh•5h ago•35 comments

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis
173•wertyk•2h ago•143 comments

Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76t89hbfb09h
46•arm32•2h ago•10 comments

Grok 4.6

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
168•iLuddite•3h ago•175 comments

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/
386•apwheele•4h ago•244 comments

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
486•florianherrengt•5h ago•401 comments

The Essential Question: "What should I read next?"

https://thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/the-essential-question
10•benbreen•6d ago•1 comments

Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

https://loudbicycle.com/bb
31•kdmccormick•2h ago•21 comments

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
205•ColinWright•8h ago•105 comments

We just raised $400M in Series C

https://lovable.dev/blog/series-c
39•thoughtpeddler•2h ago•24 comments

Shade Map

https://shademap.app
75•fredley•6h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com
219•adius•8h ago•32 comments

Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work

https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-key-to-success-isn-t-more-luck-or-hard-work/
7•julienreszka•46m ago•8 comments

The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07/27/the-bit-player-my-father-with-steve-zissou/
19•Thevet•4d ago•0 comments

Felix and I

https://jacobfilipp.com/felix/
57•surprisetalk•2d ago•6 comments

Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-13-community-edition-is-now-available/
131•layer8•7h ago•92 comments

High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons

https://petapixel.com/2026/08/04/amazing-high-res-photo-shows-a-butte-rising-from-mars/
135•bookofjoe•6d ago•11 comments

Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5

https://therad.ninja/from-8-10-seconds-to-3-7-teaching-automatic1111-to-speak-metal-on-an-m3-pro/
50•dmikey831•5h ago•18 comments

Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02478
27•sbulaev•1w ago•7 comments

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder

https://chefsbinge.com/bigos-recipe-builder/
71•doublepg23•5d ago•24 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/