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litver··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
how switching to an alternative like codeberg would prevent it? ti can be scraped as well
litver··on Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
"In this essay, we argue that there is enough evidence to reject the narrative that once AI capabilities reach a certain threshold, it will cause mass layoffs." - too late, it already did
litver··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
"Except that nobody cares anymore." Noone (from mid-management) cared about it also before. You hit the deadline, get promoted and leave the technical debt to the next one. Even if you're the one to deal with it, you set up the next project, get the budget, prioritize the issues etc. Not much changed in this regard with LLMs
litver··on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
"I Fed 24 Years of My Blog Posts to a Markov Model" you're not the first who did it. Already dozens of LLMs did it.
litver··on Just let me select text
The post implied the opposite. However, if the German girl writes in German, probably she wants to date in German, the dating platform follows her wish by making it hard to extract the text, translate it, and eventually waste her time.
litver··on Just let me select text
why do you think the German girl wants you to translate her profile?
litver··on Game-theoretic analysis of the 2025 federal elections in Germany
The German federal election of 2025 represents an interesting case for game-theoretic analysis because the parties agreed to exclude the second-largest party from any coalition. Besides, one party failed to pass the 5% threshold which also had essential power-redistribution consequences.
litver··on The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
The Even Superiorly Greatest and Lovely Educational Life Hack: Learning Latin Ahead of Time
litver··on Show HN: I made a tool to transform Newsletters into Podcasts
I'd love to have it the other way round: a tool to transform Podcasts into Newsletters
litver··on Scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs
ok, I see that it probably comes from this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script where the "fish" ("dag") hieroglyph is used. However, this wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalet) refers to the "door" (delet) hieroglyph.
litver··on Scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs
Letter "D" comes from "door" not from "fish". It's wrong Egyptian hieroglyph.
litver··on Are super-rich people just better at making money?
binomial distribution re-branded as "Yard-sale model"
litver··on Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
Maior pars mortalium, Pauline, ...
litver··on Mark Zuckerberg, let me pay for Facebook
Quote: "ad-based financing means that the companies have an interest in manipulating our attention on behalf of advertisers, instead of letting us connect as we wish." - and right after that there's an ad, for me it has a taste of hypocrisy. Why does nyt let the ads in, instead of letting me read as I wish?
litver··on DevPort – Portfolios for Developers
links like a2.devport.co (i.e. *.devport.co) didn't work, the rest worked. Now, everything is down.
litver··on DevPort – Portfolios for Developers
it seems that the site is partly down: the portolio accounts have connection problem, yours including The rest works