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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
948•iambateman•9h ago•226 comments

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
156•simedw•5h ago•51 comments

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/
213•dtj1123•9h ago•78 comments

Show HN: Phage Explorer

https://phage-explorer.org/
4•eigenvalue•37m ago•0 comments

Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/
53•onurkanbkrc•6h ago•17 comments

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf
265•vinhnx•13h ago•104 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
1383•teej•1d ago•653 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-net...
136•cdrnsf•2d ago•114 comments

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3
236•pixelesque•5h ago•144 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/
293•surprisetalk•16h ago•48 comments

International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018)

https://tongue-twister.net
9•NaOH•4d ago•1 comments

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs-np-and-the-difficulty-of-computation-a-ruliologi...
55•tzury•8h ago•27 comments

Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space

https://www.nro.gov/news-media-featured-stories/news-media-archive/News-Article/Article/4392223/d...
25•mkmk•2d ago•4 comments

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
306•UltraSane•4d ago•44 comments

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs
74•handfuloflight•8h ago•21 comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
236•Wilsoniumite•19h ago•355 comments

How to explain Generative AI in the classroom

https://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5847
43•thinkingaboutit•1d ago•13 comments

Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

158•item007•13h ago•71 comments

Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/talkbits-speak-naturally/id6756824177
58•omarisbuilding•7h ago•43 comments

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
196•ghostfoxgod•17h ago•174 comments

Show HN: Pinecone Explorer – Desktop GUI for the Pinecone vector database

https://www.pinecone-explorer.com
21•arsentjev•3d ago•3 comments

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of...
101•gnabgib•3d ago•10 comments

Self Driving Car Insurance

https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/
119•KellyCriterion•14h ago•269 comments

Email experiments: filtering out external images

https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/email-experiments-image-filtering.html
55•todsacerdoti•17h ago•28 comments

Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

https://github.com/SproutPanel/roots
25•Kerrick•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox
130•souvik1997•15h ago•71 comments

Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2026-01-22/chuck-klosterman-new-book-football
36•proposal•3d ago•103 comments

Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray

https://github.com/kristianaryanto/Quack-Cluster
71•tanelpoder•4d ago•14 comments

Building docs like a product

https://emschwartz.me/building-docs-like-a-product/
58•emschwartz•1d ago•6 comments

The Home Computer Hybrids

https://technicshistory.com/2026/01/25/the-home-computer-hybrids/
46•cfmcdonald•5d ago•17 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•9mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•9mo 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•9mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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/