Hacker News: DominikPeters

New comment by DominikPeters in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

DominikPeters — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:54:55 +0000

This approach started with the “Ask a question about your code” feature, which is more comparable to single chat message with relatively predictable token usage. Now it’s an agent who might work for 30 minutes, read the whole codebase, and write 1000 lines

New comment by DominikPeters in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

DominikPeters — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:46:25 +0000

They mention in the announcement that it will be possible to pool usage across an organization.

New comment by DominikPeters in "GPT-5.5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot"

DominikPeters — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:31:34 +0000

It's interesting that the API token cost of GPT-5.5 is double the cost of GPT-5.4, but Copilot charges a 7.5x multiplier and gates the model in premium plans. Clearly, they severely underpriced previous models like GPT-5.4 which they sell at $0.04 per request -- and these models can of course work for 30+ minutes in response to a single request and incur costs of several dollars.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

DominikPeters — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:27:19 +0000

In my Codex dashboard, I can buy 1000 extra credits for $40. The credit cost for GPT-5.4 is 375 credits / 1M output tokens which translates to $15 / 1M output tokens which exactly equals the API rate.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

DominikPeters — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:39:21 +0000

Large cars impose heavy many negative externalities on people (take up more space, make it difficult to get through a narrow street when they park there, higher mortality when they drive into pedestrians or cyclists, reduce visibility for others, aesthetically offensive). Policy is slow to shift those costs onto the people causing the externalities but it is predictable that it will happen eventually.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Prism"

DominikPeters — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:22:19 +0000

Yeah I realized the parallel while I was writing my comment! I guess what I'm thinking is that a much better experience is available and there is no in-principle reason why overleaf and prism have to be so much worse, especially in the age of vibe-coding. Prism feels like the result of two days of Claude Code, when they should have invested at least five days.

New comment by DominikPeters in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

DominikPeters — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:20:42 +0000

Are you using Opus 4.5? Sounds more like Sonnet.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Prism"

DominikPeters — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:42:02 +0000

This seems like a very basic overleaf alternative with few of its features, plus a shallow ChatGPT wrapper. Certainly can’t compete with using VS Code or TeXstudio locally, collaborating through GitHub, and getting AI assistance from Claude Code or Codex.

New comment by DominikPeters in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

DominikPeters — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:39:37 +0000

If you inspect the Chain of Thought summaries, the LLM often knows full well what it is doing.

New comment by DominikPeters in "HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)"

DominikPeters — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:46:42 +0000

As an arXiv author who likes using complicated TeX constructions, the introduction of HTML conversion has increased my workload a lot trying to write fallback macros that render okay after conversion. The conversion is super slow and there is no way to faithfully simulate it locally. Still I think it's a great thing to do.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap"

DominikPeters — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:53:02 +0000

Given that the warming impacts of contrails are short-lived (roughly a day), I think it is a good idea to do research now on the weather forecasting needed to avoid producing contrails. But I don't really see a reason to actually start avoiding them now, with the associated costs in terms of fuel, CO2 emissions, and time. We can start avoiding them in a few decades when it might have become urgent to have cooling.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

DominikPeters — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:25:42 +0000

They have worded things dishonestly to make you think that POP can be replaced by IMAP. The IMAP support is only available in the mobile app (not gmail.com) and isn't a "fetch" that integrates fetched emails to your Gmail inbox. It's kept as a separate inbox.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

DominikPeters — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:22:13 +0000

It is not supported. You can only add an IMAP mailbox on the mobile app and not on gmail.com. The IMAP account is then displayed as an inbox completely separate from your gmail inbox. There is no pull and no integration.

New comment by DominikPeters in "GPT-5"

DominikPeters — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:58:44 +0000

Claude 3.7 was released in February 2025.

New comment by DominikPeters in "Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month"

DominikPeters — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:20:07 +0000

It will include many URLs that are semi-private, like Google Docs that are shared via link.

ArXiv Source Browser: Explore the LaTeX Source Code of Papers from ArXiv

DominikPeters — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv-source-browser.pref.tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370200

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by DominikPeters in "ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv"

DominikPeters — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:14:45 +0000

It's also nice for other people to reuse and adapt your figure, or include it in beamer presentations.

New comment by DominikPeters in "ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv"

DominikPeters — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:13:47 +0000

To remove comments, one can also run, for example `latexpand --empty-comments --keep-includes --expand-bbl document.bbl document.tex > document-arxiv-v1.tex`. Latexpand should come pre-installed with texlive. Without the `--keep-includes` option, it also flattens the tex files into one.

But I'd consider removing comments by hand and leaving any comments that are potentially insightful.

New comment by DominikPeters in "OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames"

DominikPeters — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:46:00 +0000

This is o1 so it need not be post hoc but the result of reasoning about several possible choices and explanations.

New comment by DominikPeters in "DeepSeek-R1"

DominikPeters — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:53:23 +0000

Indeed, for each of the words it got it right.