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The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/
82•bckygldstn•47m ago•27 comments

Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html
97•dbreunig•1d ago•49 comments

Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

126•misterchocolat•3h ago•161 comments

Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
878•Brajeshwar•4h ago•378 comments

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv6/releases/README
47•gregsadetsky•2h ago•3 comments

Cal.com is going closed source

https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
155•Benjamin_Dobell•7h ago•132 comments

God sleeps in the minerals

https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/god-sleeps-in-the-minerals/
414•speckx•9h ago•88 comments

Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/live-nation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-ma...
274•Alex_Bond•3h ago•78 comments

Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649
159•rektomatic•1h ago•77 comments

Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair

https://aalonso.dev/blog/2023/how-to-fix-monitor-that-goes-black-off-due-to-static-electricity-in...
101•cyclopeanutopia•3d ago•53 comments

ChatGPT for Excel

https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/
12•armcat•1h ago•3 comments

Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html
436•downbad_•12h ago•131 comments

Golden eagles' return to English skies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje4zlxqkqdo
31•techterrier•3d ago•17 comments

Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)

https://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm
343•downbad_•13h ago•170 comments

Do you even need a database?

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-database
172•upmostly•10h ago•224 comments

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/
286•askl•14h ago•319 comments

Adaptional (YC S25) is hiring AI engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs/k7W6ge9-founding-engineer
1•acesohc•5h ago

The Gemini app is now on Mac

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-mac-os/
42•thm•5h ago•17 comments

How can I keep from singing?

https://blog.danieljanus.pl/singing/
22•nathell•1d ago•3 comments

Hacker News CLI

https://pythonhosted.org/hackernews-cli/commands.html
3•rolph•59m ago•0 comments

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters.html
6•ltratt•10h ago•1 comments

The Enigma of Gertrude Stein

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/gertrude-stein-afterlife-wade-review/
4•samclemens•3d ago•1 comments

One interface, every protocol

https://openbindings.com/blog/one-interface-every-protocol
11•clevengermatt•2h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto
69•muchael•6h ago•23 comments

Costasiella kuroshimae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasiella_kuroshimae
135•vinnyglennon•3d ago•51 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge

https://kampfinsel.com/
24•parzivalt•4d ago•21 comments

Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/15/2026/kalshi-ceo-tarek-mansour-expects-us-doj-to-prosecute-i...
100•thm•4h ago•106 comments

Show HN: GNU grep as a PHP extension

https://github.com/hparadiz/ext-gnu-grep
29•hparadiz•5d ago•4 comments

Why are Flock employees watching our children?

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193593234
182•enaaem•3h ago•39 comments

Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

https://github.com/steipete/wacli
226•dinakars777•15h ago•147 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•12mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•12mo 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•12mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•12mo 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•12mo 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•11mo 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/