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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/
143•trwhite•3h ago•45 comments

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/
89•saikatsg•3h ago•48 comments

Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-do...
90•gscott•2d ago•22 comments

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/
71•geoffbp•2h ago•64 comments

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
442•bastitx•12h ago•274 comments

Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server

https://pipod.dev/
58•edverma2•1d ago•25 comments

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

https://ftl-os.org/
133•romac•7h ago•55 comments

Vx – One Language, Every Chip

https://vxlang.org/
45•elffjs•4h ago•27 comments

RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
23•KomoD•2h ago•5 comments

Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)

http://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex
114•NaOH•1d ago•20 comments

Show HN: Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed

https://github.com/nicobrenner/jeffy
5•nico•1h ago•0 comments

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
16•simonjgreen•1h ago•2 comments

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/
4•willmeyers•19h ago•1 comments

Gboard Conveyor Belt Version

https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-conveyorbelt
3•xnx•2d ago•1 comments

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

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4•citelao•1h ago•2 comments

RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring

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1•sarah74•5h ago

C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler

https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights
126•rramadass•1d ago•26 comments

How to hack time, with C2PA

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hacking-time.html
3•Retr0id•3h ago•0 comments

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

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428•azhenley•21h ago•126 comments

MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today

https://www.red5.net/blog/mpeg-2-transport-streams-and-moq-yes-mpeg-ts-is-still-relevant-today/
31•mondainx•2d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

https://againstallodds.games/blog/2026/10/03/our-risc-v-emulator-pasriscv/
59•nor-and-or-not•1d ago•26 comments

Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent

https://github.com/graphene-data/graphene
20•kcmarr•2d ago•7 comments

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

https://liao.gg/blog/agents-dont-need-memory
3•kmeh•5h ago•0 comments

Holes (1996-2025)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
41•surprisetalk•1d ago•11 comments

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
647•CoryOndrejka•2d ago•158 comments

Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57500-7
34•bryanrasmussen•3d ago•4 comments

Apple Pass Designer

https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
540•soheilpro•1d ago•321 comments

Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers

https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2026/08/19/two-american-airlines-flights-end-up-with-same-fligh...
44•samch•2h ago•23 comments

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
387•mariuz•1d ago•79 comments

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-ohttp-gateway/
182•est•18h ago•86 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/