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Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
73•azhenley•2h ago•25 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
189•Cider9986•5h ago•108 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
134•xena•4h ago•81 comments

Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/
520•cyb0rg0•13h ago•335 comments

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

https://github.com/marsbos/mador
65•bosmarcel•4h ago•22 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
453•zImPatrick•7h ago•238 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/
15•_alternator_•2h ago•14 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
42•ur-whale•4h ago•9 comments

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking
94•yubblegum•3d ago•48 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and
103•jaypatelani•9h ago•7 comments

Black Hole of Los Alamos Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-hole-of-los-alamos
40•Bluestein•4d ago•10 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
320•tosh•9h ago•282 comments

Adverse Selection and Markouts

https://machow.ski/posts/markouts_and_adverse_selection/
9•costco•5d ago•0 comments

Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database

https://blog.glazer.ee/posts/converting-cronos/
22•pintprint•2d ago•2 comments

Asahi Linux on M3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/
355•mdp2021•11h ago•195 comments

Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet

https://twitter.com/Liquid_BTC/status/2096696272447218108
58•felipelalli•2h ago•31 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
109•iamsyr•10h ago•76 comments

A/I shuts down

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
522•captainmuon•10h ago•388 comments

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html
76•Bluestein•9h ago•18 comments

Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations

https://www.vidact.dev/
51•mohebifar•4d ago•24 comments

Every Novel Is Boring–Until It Isn't

https://www.publicbooks.org/every-novel-is-boring-until-it-isnt/
10•samclemens•3d ago•2 comments

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/08/20/researchers-develop-electronic-skin-for-prosthetics...
46•gmays•4d ago•5 comments

Opalite Health (YC W26) Is Hiring – Founding GTM

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/opalite-health/jobs/bNedVAD-founding-gtm
1•ckuo9•8h ago

D2 Is Non-Profit

https://d2lang.com/blog/d2-non-profit/
28•alixanderwang•6h ago•10 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
184•gurjeet•4d ago•89 comments

Doomscrolling ourselves to death

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death
365•shubhamjain•13h ago•264 comments

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and...
557•mpweiher•18h ago•177 comments

Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

https://kepter.app/finder
92•maltch•6h ago•114 comments

Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/political-meddling-census-bureau-damages-entir...
61•boshomi•2h ago•21 comments

2026 Hugo Awards

https://www.thehugoawards.org/
69•signa11•12h ago•40 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/