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Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-o...
91•clan•2h ago•49 comments

Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/10/qualcomm-broad-patent-agreement
58•0xedb•2h ago•34 comments

Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
809•snehesht•21h ago•356 comments

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-an...
140•rdmuser•13h ago•17 comments

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/
245•wiso•15h ago•79 comments

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/gods-in-the-classroom-religion-and-education...
37•pseudolus•3d ago•11 comments

We ported the original Doom to SQL

https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
114•Vaslo•1d ago•14 comments

Infidel goes wild

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
138•tobr•1d ago•22 comments

The Tao of Backup

http://www.taobackup.com/index.html
143•vntok•2d ago•50 comments

Replacement of petroleum based products with plant-based materials (2025)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eng2.70108
66•thelastgallon•5h ago•30 comments

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
576•privacyisntdead•14h ago•399 comments

First Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
8•rbanffy•3d ago•4 comments

Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

875•paveworld•1d ago•188 comments

Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/02/benchmarking-ai-decision-models-against-traditi...
66•tomncooper•2d ago•17 comments

Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio

https://tuftesrazor.scienceux.org/
49•s4074433•2d ago•18 comments

Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-...
205•llm_nerd•8h ago•171 comments

Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-...
397•sensanaty•14h ago•517 comments

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
78•shannadige•1d ago•57 comments

'Neanderthals Among Us' review

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/neanderthals-among-us-peter-sahlins-review
76•pepys•1d ago•76 comments

What is going on with ceiling fans

https://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fans
312•colinprince•4d ago•268 comments

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62
44•mooreds•1d ago•23 comments

Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

https://niklasroy.com/gtc/
199•r0r0•3d ago•29 comments

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh
140•renehsz•11h ago•32 comments

Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2026/04/safe-optimistic-lock-coupling.html
16•greghn•3d ago•0 comments

Bill Draper has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/william-draper-dead.html
121•bookofjoe•21h ago•38 comments

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw4Jk
86•simonjgreen•1d ago•31 comments

Interview with Chicken Scheme Maintainer Sjamaan/Peter Bex

https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/peter-bex/
42•veqq•2d ago•11 comments

Sales of sub-€25,000 electric car models set to rise sevenfold

https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/wave-of-affordable-electric-cars-is-boosting-consum...
56•geox•2h ago•82 comments

Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites

https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/lace-and-labor
19•surprisetalk•4d ago•1 comments

Blindsight (Watts Novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
90•mooreds•17h ago•100 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/