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Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

https://mlq.ai/news/meta-caps-internal-ai-token-spending-after-costs-approach-billions-in-2026/
72•typeofhuman•1h ago•58 comments

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

https://zcode.z.ai/en
193•chvid•3h ago•206 comments

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

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211•IESAI_ski•4h ago•34 comments

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

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729•defrost•11h ago•249 comments

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo

https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/
21•devicelimit•56m ago•1 comments

What to learn to be a graphics programmer

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241•atan2•7h ago•122 comments

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

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51•consumer451•3h ago•30 comments

The Underhanded C Contest

https://underhanded-c.org/
33•ccabraldev•3h ago•5 comments

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-g...
595•Tiberium•13h ago•628 comments

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

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282•ledoge•11h ago•94 comments

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40•paulpauper•4h ago•5 comments

Qualcomm Linux 2.0

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2026/06/qualcomm-linux-2-now-available
50•gilgamesh3•4h ago•12 comments

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 

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65•coloneltcb•1h ago•33 comments

The <Usermedia> HTML Element

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23•twapi•1h ago•14 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

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1•pablo24602•4h ago

Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine

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412•makepanic•13h ago•92 comments

Internal Combustion Engine (2021)

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284•StefanBatory•12h ago•73 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

162•whoishiring•10h ago•175 comments

Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/
248•soheilpro•11h ago•165 comments

How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery

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34•bushwart•1d ago•7 comments

I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers

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70•rbanffy•4h ago•8 comments

Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production

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56•littlexsparkee•2h ago•46 comments

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24•NaOH•3d ago•12 comments

The Apple Disk II Controller Card

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42•stmw•2d ago•10 comments

Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

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146•dennis-tra•10h ago•48 comments

Fable 5 Is Back

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318•mfiguiere•6h ago•296 comments

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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73•ryanmerket•7h ago•123 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

106•whoishiring•10h ago•251 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/