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Residential proxies detected on White House network

https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network
1068•Rasbora•13h ago•341 comments

Lemmings CSS Animation

https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/
193•MarkBlah•5h ago•39 comments

Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base

https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/
17•pretext•1h ago•12 comments

A thousand fewer paths to root

https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
348•dangelosaurus•11h ago•248 comments

Images 2.6

https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/
305•davidbarker•11h ago•177 comments

Partial Operator Precedence

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-10-24
48•tosh•2d ago•25 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
539•abrarthought•19h ago•149 comments

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

https://www.ricursive.com/ripple
295•Philpax•15h ago•108 comments

Insects don't swarm at LED lights

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2026/11/03/insects-dont-swarm-at-led-lights/
264•speckx•14h ago•128 comments

A new Go API for JSON

https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2
320•olexsmir•16h ago•156 comments

Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio

https://www.altera.com/newsroom/agilex-2x
31•gmays•4h ago•12 comments

TextEdit vs. Pages

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/10/textedit-vs-pages/
13•surprisetalk•1d ago•2 comments

Spreading Liquid with Three.js

https://mofu-dev.com/en/blog/fluid-foundation/
109•mooreds•2d ago•15 comments

Conductor is joining Meta

https://www.conductor.build/announcement
179•kenrose•16h ago•192 comments

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1746
117•muricula•12h ago•12 comments

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

339•eggbrain•20h ago•380 comments

Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS

https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/mbed-tls@lists.trustedfirmware.org/thread/YPIGCB7...
46•jonesjohnson•2d ago•11 comments

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
1195•pseudolus•22h ago•698 comments

Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander

https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti/
193•daniel_rh•15h ago•27 comments

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

https://www.karthihegde.dev/posts/dns_tampering
92•frostbyte7•21h ago•58 comments

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

https://www.qualcomm.com/data-center/products/cloud-ai-100-ultra
149•peter_d_sherman•14h ago•59 comments

Progress on provable inference for large language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/provable-inference
223•ltononro•17h ago•109 comments

Replacing homepage demo media with looping HTML and CSS

https://stepshots.com/css-feature-clips
4•hauju•22h ago•0 comments

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastru...
310•zenincognito•19h ago•237 comments

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor

88•lukeigel•17h ago•34 comments

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-pierre/
240•itunpredictable•19h ago•74 comments

OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability

https://hachyderm.io/@damienmiller/117563026759098135
18•Animux•55m ago•1 comments

Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity

https://www.spacex.com/starfall
224•gmays•10h ago•157 comments

A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/02/food/coffee-machine-plastic-free
99•thunderbong•19h ago•120 comments

Tencent Hy4

https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4
249•Philpax•20h ago•90 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/