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bentoneron GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

I've made a passive workaround: a pair of Codex CLI hooks that detect the truncation from the local session transcript and warn — in the TUI at turn end, and via a message injected into the model's context on your next message.

See https://github.com/bentoner/codex-516-hook

bentoneron Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

One reason is that repeats make it harder to use page-turner pedals.

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)

Draftable | Head of Sales | Melbourne, Australia (hybrid/remote okay within Australia) | Full-time

Draftable makes document comparison software, mainly for lawyers. We're looking for an experienced commercial leader to drive our global sales strategy and growth from Australia. It's a high-impact role, reporting directly to the CEO, with significant influence over business strategy.

Our dev and product teams are killing it, we've just brought on fantastic marketing and People leaders, and now we're looking to complete the exec team with a sales leader who can build on our strong momentum (700+ firms signed since launching our legal product in mid-2023).

More info and application details here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4181270899/

bentoneron Livestream of Australian Court: Epic Games vs. Google, Epic Games vs. Apple

This is the livestream from the Australian Federal Court of four consolidated antitrust cases: Epic vs. Apple, Epic vs. Google, and class actions vs. Apple and Google. The trial started today and is expected to last ~16 weeks.

bentoneron Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery

I have a "Wellue Checkme O2 wrist oxygen monitor". (The Oura ring didn't measure blood oxygen back then.)

bentoneron Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery

The intensity of my sleep apnea varies from night to night, and you might be similar?

Based on oxygen levels, mine also varies from subclinial to "medium" apnea. I was deemed not to have sleep apnea based on the take-home test or the in-hospital test... but I wore my oxygen-logging ring during the in-hospital test to check it was calibrated to the hospital's equipment (it was), and the specialist then diagnosed me based on my measurements of oxygen levels on other nights.

bentoneron Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture

It’s very surprising. How many papers do you think Terence Tao had published by the third year of his PhD?

bentoneron Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

You could link or copy the config file and plugin folder in the `.obsidian` directory in one vault to other vaults.

bentoneron Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

Thanks! I also found the "Fold indent" setting in the core app.

bentoneron Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

Strong recommendation for both Obsidian and Dynalist, the other product of this crazy productive duo. I really appreciate their understanding that users want to be able customize their note-taking/life-organizing system.

Is there a plugin or something that enables list folding in a markdown file? I'm wondering whether it's time to migrate the Dynalist parts of my system to Obsidian and that's the big thing I'd miss.

bentoneron Low-cost ventilator wins Sloan health care prize (2019)

You can't draw this conclusion from the linked study due to how the sample was constructed.

"In this retrospective, multicentre cohort study, we included all adult inpatients (≥18 years old) with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 from Jinyintan Hospital and Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital (Wuhan, China) who had been discharged or had died by Jan 31, 2020."

There might be a bunch of patients who needed ventilation and went on to survive, but had not been discharged before the cut-off date.

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

We’re looking for an experienced and self-reliant engineer to work across our Python/Django and JS/React stack. We expect you to work a full time load of 40 hours per week (and no more) and to be very productive during that time.

We know you have a life outside work, so we will respect your non-working and family time. We don’t expect you to make work your life.

We’re easy-going and easy to work with. We’re developer-led and have a flat structure. We are collaborative, and we expect you to take an active role in evolving our engineering culture. We like writing things down. We love Slack. We launch things as soon as they’re ready. We do things right the first time, even if it takes a little longer. We don’t have much technical debt.

More details at https://draftable.com/careers.

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

Draftable makes document comparison software accessible to everyone.

We’re looking for an experienced and self-reliant engineer to work across our Python/Django and JS/React stack. We expect you to work a full time load of 40 hours per week (and no more) and to be very productive during that time.

We know you have a life outside work, so we will respect your non-working and family time. We don’t expect you to make work your life.

We’re easy-going and easy to work with. We’re developer-led and have a flat structure. We are collaborative, and we expect you to take an active role in evolving our engineering culture. We like writing things down. We love Slack. We launch things as soon as they’re ready. We do things right the first time, even if it takes a little longer. We don’t have much technical debt.

More details at https://draftable.com/careers.

bentoneron The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions

Note however that you completely misunderstand that the US definition of insider trading is not the same as that used in other countries. In particular, there is no requirement in the UK that the non-public information originate from a company insider.

bentoneron CeramicSpeed’s Driven Concept Might Become the Most Efficient Bicycle Drivetrain

Does anyone know if this would this be UCI legal?

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

We hired a remote engineer from HN earlier this year and that’s working out great.

Draftable makes document comparison software accessible to everyone. We’re looking for two engineers:

- Senior Engineer (.NET, JS) - you will lead the development of our desktop product, Draftable Desktop.

- R&D Engineer - you will work on improving the document comparison algorithms which power all of our products.

We prefer remote hires, but we’re open to an on-site hire in our Melbourne office.

We’re looking for experienced and self-reliant engineers. We expect you to work a full time load of 40 hours per week (and no more) and to be very productive during that time.

We know you have a life outside work, so we will respect your non-working and family time. We don’t expect you to make work your life.

Our tech stack: .NET (mostly C# with some F# and some C++), Python/Django, Javascript/React, PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ.

We’re easy-going and easy to work with. We’re developer-led and have a flat structure. We are collaborative, and we expect you to take an active role in evolving our engineering culture. We like writing things down. We love Slack. We launch things as soon as they’re ready. We do things right the first time, even if it takes a little longer. We don’t have much technical debt.

More details at https://draftable.com/careers.

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

Job ads are now up.

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)

We hired a remote engineer from HN earlier this year and that’s working out great.

Draftable makes document comparison software accessible to everyone. We’re looking for two engineers:

- Senior Engineer (.NET, JS) - you will lead the development of our desktop product, Draftable Desktop.

- Algorithm Engineer - you will work on improving the document comparison algorithms which power all of our products.

We prefer remote hires, but we’re open to an on-site hire in our Melbourne office.

We’re looking for experienced and self-reliant engineers. We expect you to work a full time load of 38 hours per week and to be very productive during that time.

We know you have a life outside work, so we will respect your non-working and family time. We don’t expect you to make work your life.

Our tech stack: .NET (mostly C# with some F# and some C++), Python/Django, Javascript/React, PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ.

We’re easy-going and easy to work with. We’re developer-led and have a flat structure. We are collaborative, and we expect you to take an active role in evolving our engineering culture. We like writing things down. We love Slack. We launch things as soon as they’re ready. We do things right the first time, even if it takes a little longer. We don’t have much technical debt.

We'll post more details and application instructions at https://draftable.com/careers within the next few days.

bentoneron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Draftable makes document comparison software accessible to everyone. We’re looking for an expert .NET developer to lead the development of a new product, our Comparison Server, and to improve our existing products.

We prefer a remote hire, but we’re open to an on-site hire in our Melbourne office.

We’re looking for an experienced and self-reliant developer. We expect you to work a full time load of 38 hours per week and to be very productive during that time.

We know you have a life outside work, so we will respect your non-working and family time. We don’t expect you to make work your life.

Our tech stack: .NET (mostly C# with some F# and some C++), Python/Django, React, PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ.

We’re easy to work with. We’re developer led and make decisions based on evidence. We’re good at communication. We don’t have status meetings. We like writing things down. We love Slack. We launch things as soon as they’re ready. We do things right the first time, even if it takes a little longer. We don’t have much technical debt.

More detail at https://draftable.com/careers

bentoneron IBM z14 mainframe

Here's a diff of the z13 and z14 Technical Introductions:

https://draftable.com/compare/quHdhGnzauCm

bentoneron Ask HN: I work for consulting firm that's illegally moving bank code to GitHub

Tricky spot. You need a lawyer to write what's called a letter of demand for the rest of your contract fees. If your consultancy has any sense that should resolve things. Don't contact the bank as that could backfire. Suggest contacting https://www.slatergordon.com.au/dispute-resolution/contract-...

bentoneron My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's New Bookstore

Read this article instead

http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookse...

It's more informative and less bitter.

bentoneron Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon

Here's a video showing how a $22 reed is produced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smanwe3_hY8&feature=youtu.be

bentoneron How I killed app sales by going freemium

How I killed app sales by switching to metered pricing

bentoneron GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang

Is there anything like this for gitlab?

bentoneron Your waitress, your professor

I don't know if he does this sort of thing, but I recommend Jonathan Walgate. He has a Ph.D. from Oxford in quantum physics and a business helping people to write grants. He's also a great guy! (I used to do quantum physics.)

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jonathan-walgate/35/965/553

bentoneron The Founder’s Guide to Selling Your Company

I don't get why you say that investment bankers are expensive at 1 to 2%. If they can't improve the deal by at least 2%, they can't be worth dealing with at all.

bentoneron SEC Charges HFT Firm with Fraudulent Trading to Manipulate Closing Prices

Can someone explain what exactly makes this fraud?

I looked at Rule 10b-5 and that wasn't helpful, so presumably the answer is in the case law?

bentoneron Deep Learning: An MIT Press book in preparation

See also Michael Nielsen's book Neural Networks and Deep Learning

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

bentoneron Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason

> a CPA also could not get hired, and let go for no reason, within 2 weeks, without having several avenues of recourse through his professional governing body.

What's his professional governing body going to do?