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How LLMs work

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/
309•0xkato•2d ago•92 comments

The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)

https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html
163•transistor-man•8h ago•56 comments

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-u...
374•maltalex•4h ago•113 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/05/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-i-why-they-fight/
67•gostsamo•5h ago•19 comments

Social Cache Busting

https://www.autodidacts.io/social-cache-busting/
26•surprisetalk•3d ago•4 comments

Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4g44ew3g1kt
392•janpot•18h ago•249 comments

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/
359•speckx•17h ago•154 comments

pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution

https://github.com/microsoft/pg_durable
391•coffeemug•17h ago•88 comments

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

324•andrehacker•1d ago•598 comments

The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260605-01/?p=112391
85•paulmooreparks•5h ago•23 comments

Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/quantization-aware-training-gem...
347•theanonymousone•16h ago•108 comments

Ten Years of Franz

https://meetfranz.com/blog/ten-years-of-franz
28•tosh•3d ago•16 comments

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/
404•logicprog•20h ago•411 comments

We shrank our TimescaleDB chunks from 30 days to 7

https://tech.wmg.com/why-we-shrank-our-timescaledb-chunks-from-30-days-to-7-07cab8afefc5
7•yask123•2d ago•0 comments

Lockdown Mode

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode
53•berlianta•5h ago•26 comments

Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

https://mouseless.click
526•riddley•2d ago•213 comments

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html
83•emschwartz•9h ago•45 comments

Raytracing Geometries in 3D Rendering

https://andeplane.github.io/Raytracing/
3•kvakkefly•2d ago•1 comments

My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development

https://www.saturnci.com/my-agent-skill-for-test-driven-development.html
173•laxmena•1d ago•73 comments

Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance

https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/nine-ways-to-do-inheritance-in-rust-a-language-without-inheritance...
41•pjmlp•2d ago•6 comments

Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/06/04/govuk-goes-dutch-on-payments-as-it-dumps-str...
437•toomuchtodo•16h ago•154 comments

Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
302•jsve•17h ago•231 comments

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

142•Ekami•6h ago•255 comments

The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2026/06/02/the-quiet-numbers-station-decoding-nineteen-years-of-gps-...
87•lordgilman•20h ago•69 comments

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
394•mimorigasaka•1d ago•203 comments

Transformers are inherently succinct

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Yxz92UuPLQ
118•brandonb•14h ago•32 comments

India's surprise baby bust

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/indias-surprise-baby-bust-is-a-warning-to-the-world
177•hakonbogen•18h ago•765 comments

Europe's largest Copper Age tomb: children's bones show ancient health crisis

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-europe-largest-copper-age-tomb.html
30•gmays•1d ago•5 comments

Three of our worst VC stories

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2062860530360959273
226•orgonon•13h ago•114 comments

No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators

https://irfanali.org/blog/zcom
40•sayyadirfanali•3d ago•7 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/