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Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
228•softwaredoug•8h ago•57 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
435•Michelangelo11•3d ago•94 comments

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

https://housing.over.pizza/
295•JumpCrisscross•10h ago•94 comments

AI agents in a stand-up call

https://atoll92.github.io/agent-standup/
28•jonbaer•3h ago•30 comments

How big is a Git commit?

https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size
13•theanonymousone•1d ago•3 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
360•oskarth•1d ago•58 comments

PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6
66•therepanic•6h ago•6 comments

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
19•1potato•1d ago•4 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
177•ingve•1d ago•38 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
43•theanonymousone•3d ago•3 comments

Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

https://hangul.ink/blog/hangul-day
33•jbaudanza•2d ago•8 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
184•Curiositry•15h ago•68 comments

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

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
280•rociiu•20h ago•130 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
182•smokel•2d ago•41 comments

GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZmM6hwwAU
55•pizzaiolo•3h ago•12 comments

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
145•ghuntley•16h ago•61 comments

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld

https://celld.dev/docs/engineering/deterministic-simulation-testing/
12•handfuloflight•1d ago•1 comments

OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://openscad.org/
134•b-man•4d ago•104 comments

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

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

Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/research_fralinbiomed_upfhutelin.html
137•gmays•1d ago•110 comments

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware

https://werwolv.net/posts/macromedia_copy_protection/
70•speckx•1d ago•10 comments

Grieving the loss of details

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/grieving-the-loss-of-details/
414•signa11•4d ago•325 comments

C for Rust programmers

https://bd103.dev/blog/2026-10-07-c-for-rust-programmers/
136•xyproto•2d ago•120 comments

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

https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
444•g-b-r•1d ago•279 comments

500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter

https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/
75•davikr•5h ago•58 comments

Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

https://ndstudio.gov/posts/say-hello-to-rampart
83•nateb2022•1d ago•32 comments

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-chernobyl-particles-reveal-unexpectedly-stable.html
151•geox•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a
157•arkj•12h ago•101 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...
244•colinprince•17h ago•545 comments

Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
1348•ilreb•1d ago•699 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/