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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Sunday December 14, 2025 @11:31PM (#46270515)

I've been working on an award flight search tool -- theres so many interesting problems to solve: - How do you bypass bot detection? - How do you achieve fast loading results? - How are you able to teach users how to get the best deals possible w/ award travel.

Theres so much more to do in terms of reliability (bypassing bot detection) and onboarding new programs (right now, only American, jetBlue, Delta, Virgin Atlantic and Alaska are supported). But progress has been good and im excited about it. https://awardlocker.com

Show HN: AwardLocker – Real-time award flight search

Posted by __cxa_throw on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:05PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.awardlocker.com/

AwardLocker searches award availability across multiple airlines in real time. Results stream in as they're found, so you see options immediately.Backstory: I've been working on this in my spare time. I enjoy award travel searches, and I wanted to contribute something useful to the space. Existing tools often have suboptimal search experiences—poor date selection, slow results, and limited...

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Re:New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory on Friday June 20, 2025 @04:19PM (#44331686)

What is the new widely accepted theory for how humans first arrived in the Americas, if not for the traditional Bering Land Bridge hypothesis?

Re:Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane... on Saturday March 15, 2025 @11:10PM (#43376702)

Theres large portions of the tech industry that are pretty useless to society too while paying incredibly high salaries random examples include: - facebook/google ads teams - various SaaSLOP companies

Lots of smart engineers that work on making buttons pretty and A/B testing crap rather than pushing the boundaries of science.