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Vercel April 2026 security incident

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-sell...
613•colesantiago•14h ago•345 comments

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
123•vinhnx•20h ago•55 comments

The Bromine Chokepoint

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-...
176•crescit_eundo•10h ago•82 comments

Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
111•shivampkumar•4h ago•19 comments

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/
82•walterbell•8h ago•18 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/
22•twapi•3h ago•5 comments

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-afte...
163•Brajeshwar•12h ago•138 comments

Sudo for Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/sudo
33•luispa•4h ago•12 comments

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

https://www.swiss-ai.org
34•doener•5h ago•10 comments

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum

https://sheets.works/data-viz/keyboard-sounds
61•akashwadhwani35•4d ago•24 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
251•pretext•18h ago•149 comments

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

https://mxmap.ch/
97•doener•5h ago•29 comments

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/
58•jruohonen•9h ago•9 comments

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

https://browser-use.com/posts/prove-you-are-a-robot
73•lukasec•4d ago•36 comments

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/04/recovering-windows-live-writer-files/
17•bovermyer•5d ago•4 comments

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
233•omer_k•21h ago•255 comments

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/04/16/a-lightweight-way-to-make-agents-talk-without-paying-for-api-u...
19•juanpabloaj•4h ago•5 comments

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
551•DamnInteresting•2d ago•144 comments

A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017)

https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2017/08/07/a-common-evolution-service-to-system-integration-to-prod...
7•skmurphy•2d ago•1 comments

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/
60•Akcium•10h ago•26 comments

Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

https://github.com/outcomeops/context-engineering
38•linsys•2d ago•11 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
312•helloplanets•21h ago•117 comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu
57•pizza_man•9h ago•13 comments

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/04/11/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-57-interesting-map-ge...
15•Hooke•1d ago•0 comments

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/
125•NordStreamYacht•4d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

https://www.vincentgregoire.com/faceoff/
106•vcf•10h ago•35 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
169•Eridanus2•19h ago•69 comments

PopOS Linux: Creating a Bootable Backup USB With Encryption

https://hajo.me/blog/2026/02/16/popos-linux-creating-bootable-backup-USB-with-encryption/
13•fxtentacle•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html
98•teamchong•17h ago•44 comments

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720
344•Tiberium•13h ago•121 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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/