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DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
478•theanonymousone•7h ago•248 comments

Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
63•crescit_eundo•1h ago•23 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/
147•xbmcuser•1h ago•62 comments

Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/10/12/around-the-world-34-a-pretty-sky/
40•ibobev•1d ago•4 comments

A Tudor Life in the Time of Plague

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/tudor-life-time-plague
11•pepys•3d ago•0 comments

Ultramarine 1 Flash

https://www.paperinstruments.com/ultramarine
327•i_rush_carriers•1d ago•100 comments

Tesla Roadster

https://www.tesla.com/roadster
1546•shekhar101•1d ago•2816 comments

The First Candid

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-candid
17•Thevet•22h ago•6 comments

Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/#discover-tech
25•samizdis•29m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

https://llmspeed.dev/
175•albinstman•11h ago•57 comments

US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/the-us-federal-budget-deficit-for-2026-just-came...
30•ck2•1h ago•11 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
322•theykk•7h ago•126 comments

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM
331•Anon84•21h ago•82 comments

You could have invented transformers from memory

https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/
392•speckx•20h ago•92 comments

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neigh...
75•bookofjoe•4h ago•10 comments

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins
962•ahlCVA•20h ago•347 comments

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]

https://cr.yp.to/papers/cryptoint-20250424.pdf
17•akkartik•2d ago•0 comments

Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project

https://docs.openrewrite.org/reference/latest-versions-of-every-openrewrite-module
35•javahippie•2d ago•8 comments

Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

https://www.lf-lang.org/
99•mpweiher•2d ago•25 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference
339•antipaul•1d ago•177 comments

FLUX 3 Image Klein

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-image-klein
189•gmays•19h ago•55 comments

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_...
249•7402•21h ago•222 comments

The future of programming – A.I. Wasserman and S. Gutz (1982)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358453.358459
9•vismit2000•4h ago•0 comments

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/
295•farlight•23h ago•194 comments

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits
159•pretext•21h ago•34 comments

Nine-Inch Snails

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-snails-florida-invasion/688850/
101•zdw•17h ago•52 comments

0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch

https://jedrzej.maczan.pl/2025_11_21_dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg
35•yu3zhou4•3d ago•5 comments

Monte-Carlo Simulations

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/
151•ibobev•3d ago•35 comments

Flexport Is Hiring a Biz Ops Leader in Office of CEO

https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/
1•thedogeye•14h ago

I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4

https://leangineer.com/blog/realworld-in-lean/
84•saviorand•3d ago•12 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/