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98% Isn't Much

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2026/07/03/98-isnt-very-much/
64•speckx•27m ago•33 comments

Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-web-hosting-vendor-share-2026
63•adulion•1h ago•46 comments

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

https://streetcomplete.app/
7•kls0e•34m ago•0 comments

Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

https://www.nwo.nl/nieuws/eerste-internationale-wetenschappers-via-het-tulp-fonds-naar-nederland
104•28304283409234•2h ago•75 comments

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
709•peter_d_sherman•18h ago•266 comments

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
652•basilikum•18h ago•155 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•1h ago

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
540•martinald•16h ago•330 comments

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home
292•bilsbie•12h ago•106 comments

Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/21/dolosse-a-south-african-invention-used-over-the-world/
98•andsoitis•2d ago•21 comments

Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/05/historic-photos-of-nasas-cavernous-wind-tunnels/560660/
45•ohjeez•2d ago•8 comments

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
189•sscaryterry•13h ago•63 comments

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device
160•ifh-hn•4h ago•76 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
76•archargelod•7h ago•15 comments

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
529•modinfo•14h ago•335 comments

Not Dark Yet

https://agoodhardstare.substack.com/p/not-dark-yet
18•paulpauper•3d ago•1 comments

The Family Keeping Watch over a 52-Year-Old Pot of Soup

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/the-family-keeping-watch-over-a-52-year-old-pot-of-...
7•petethomas•6d ago•3 comments

Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/dua-lipa-opens-library-for-banned-and-censored-books-...
9•pax•22m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

https://whimfiles.com
37•whimbyte•5h ago•29 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
405•in-silico•19h ago•153 comments

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/
272•soycaporal•14h ago•58 comments

In Praise of Observational Evidence

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/in-praise-of-observational-evidence
52•fi-le•5d ago•7 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
673•dijksterhuis•22h ago•766 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
350•LabsLucas•22h ago•233 comments

Inkfield

https://www.inkfield.studio
36•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-prune-rag-context
121•emil_sorensen•17h ago•33 comments

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-for-jaguar/
167•cakehonolulu•18h ago•52 comments

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfried-leibniz/
12•aragonite•3d ago•3 comments

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
197•maxloh•20h ago•57 comments

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.4
98•throw0101a•14h ago•17 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/