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Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi

https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html
253•karagenit•5h ago•144 comments

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
554•LaurensBER•14h ago•104 comments

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again
373•shmulc•12h ago•258 comments

Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust

https://clj.rs/
25•simonpure•3d ago•0 comments

Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment

https://imagesco.com/articles/kirlian/kirlian-photography.html
36•joebig•4h ago•5 comments

Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/
133•germanrabbit•10h ago•32 comments

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

https://nfsu2.xyz/
964•fluxusars•23h ago•248 comments

Finding Xanadu: Inside a JRPG classic translation 15 years in the making

https://readonlymemo.com/legend-of-xanadu-pc-engine-fan-translation-interview-making-of/
4•speckx•2d ago•0 comments

MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"

https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/
295•antiuniverse•15h ago•79 comments

Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/uranium-cubes-reveal-why-the-german-nuclear-project-failed/
124•rbanffy•2d ago•81 comments

GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-05-new-pull-request-overview-page-in-public-preview/
134•xiaoyu2006•9h ago•84 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
708•infwhispers•23h ago•373 comments

Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy

https://www.science.org/content/article/wearable-device-makers-are-harvesting-brain-data-train-ai...
36•maxall4•6h ago•14 comments

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-ju...
313•thunderbong•21h ago•276 comments

ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients

https://github.com/dmunozv04/isponsorblocktv
30•xnx•5h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe
229•hedgerow-dev•15h ago•54 comments

The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

https://hunch.net/?p=13764006
453•srean•14h ago•270 comments

Commodore PET – The Worlds First Personal Computer

https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-products/commodore-pet-the-worlds-first-personal-computer/
52•andsoitis•9h ago•17 comments

Amsterdam School

https://architecture-history.org/schools/AMSTERDAM%20SCHOOL.html
29•bondarchuk•4d ago•7 comments

ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui

https://github.com/crmne/zapfast
68•handfuloflight•6h ago•45 comments

Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/struggling-to-spell-male-chauvinist-pig-apple-...
455•user_7832•15h ago•286 comments

The $8 Linux Computer (2022)

http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
228•zenincognito•18h ago•88 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
370•ackyshake•1d ago•321 comments

Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away

https://sheets.works/data-viz/cpu-dies
119•user_7832•16h ago•23 comments

Five memorable books about programming (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html
113•andsoitis•15h ago•71 comments

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-re...
232•benbreen•1d ago•205 comments

GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows' Upstart '90s Competitor (2016)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-geoworks-microsoft-windows-upstart-90s-compe...
58•andsoitis•15h ago•20 comments

Running a law firm on Free software

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/
267•DeepLogin•23h ago•126 comments

Retro Song Bird: Plug in any Game Boy cartridge to hear the soundtrack

https://www.retrosongbird.com/
70•hentrep•17h ago•16 comments

IRA Velinsky – Commodore's Industrial Designer

https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/ira-velinsky-commodores-amazing-industrial-designer/
33•erickhill•10h ago•1 comments
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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/