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Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)

https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
129•rafaepta•1h ago•92 comments

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)

https://norvig.com/lispy.html
59•tosh•2h ago•27 comments

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

https://www.beyondallreason.info
287•mosiuerbarso•6h ago•149 comments

Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers, uncles, anyone in that role!

66•consumer451•39m ago•10 comments

The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software

https://brandur.org/minimum-viable-unit
15•brandur•58m ago•1 comments

Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You

https://kevinak.se/blog/who-actually-owns-your-atproto-identity-hint-its-probably-not-you
111•kevinak•3h ago•106 comments

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wildcard/jobs/SEmo4di-founding-applied-ml-engineer
1•kaushikmahorker•39m ago

Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb

https://www.wired.me/story/commodore-made-a-digital-detox-phone-that-isnt-dumb
76•Audiophilip•3d ago•48 comments

Health Insurance Claim Denial Rates Range from 13% to 35% by Insurer

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13•brandonb•11m ago•2 comments

Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X: A From-First-Principles Guide

https://indianspeedster.github.io/blog/occupancy-math-mi355x/
14•skidrow•4d ago•0 comments

Google Hits 50% IPv6

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/28/google-hits-50-ipv6/
353•barqawiz•9h ago•328 comments

Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/16/shipping-freight-energy-fossil-cargo/
64•choult•2h ago•37 comments

System call instrumentation on Linux/x86‑64 using memory‑indirect calls, part I

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2026/06/15/#system-call-instrumentation-on-intel-negative-r...
16•matt_d•4d ago•5 comments

A 3D voxel game engine written in APL

https://github.com/namgyaaal/avoxelgame
116•sph•9h ago•10 comments

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe
447•Cider9986•1d ago•179 comments

Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/06/18/1845
164•zdw•2d ago•24 comments

Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math

https://www.devashish.me/p/two-qwen3-models-on-one-dgx-spark
55•devashish86•3d ago•26 comments

The case against geometric algebra (2024)

https://alexkritchevsky.com/2024/02/28/geometric-algebra.html
106•Hbruz0•6h ago•89 comments

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00339-9
326•croes•19h ago•96 comments

Renting a sewing machine from the library

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland
302•sohkamyung•18h ago•174 comments

Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone

https://github.com/nikitadoudikov/claude-pulse
4•nikitadvd•20h ago•0 comments

Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512

https://zeux.io/2026/06/17/zigzag-decoding-avx512/
113•luu•3d ago•21 comments

Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux

https://sibexi.co/posts/epoll-vs-io_uring/
226•Sibexico•18h ago•53 comments

A tale of two path separators

https://alexwlchan.net/2021/slashes/
54•dbaupp•4d ago•22 comments

Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

https://fosterelli.co/developers-dont-understand-cors
295•toilet•16h ago•234 comments

15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/17/business/lyme-disease-tick-test/
182•bookofjoe•3d ago•132 comments

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam
184•zdw•21h ago•128 comments

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2026/06/20/needyou.html
271•LowLevelMahn•1d ago•70 comments

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

https://www.smpte.org/blog/smpte-makes-its-standards-freely-accessible-openingstandards-library-t...
282•zdw•1d ago•96 comments

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/
221•zdw•1d ago•50 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/