Hacker News: litver

New comment by litver in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

litver — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:06:30 +0000

"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

New comment by litver in "I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model"

litver — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:22:04 +0000

"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.

New comment by litver in "Just let me select text"

litver — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:06:18 +0000

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.

New comment by litver in "Just let me select text"

litver — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:45:18 +0000

why do you think the German girl wants you to translate her profile?

New comment by litver in "Game-theoretic analysis of the 2025 federal elections in Germany"

litver — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:32:56 +0000

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.

Game-theoretic analysis of the 2025 federal elections in Germany

litver — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:32:56 +0000

Article URL: http://maxlit.github.io/powerindex/German-elections-2025-analysis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137050

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by litver in "The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time"

litver — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:53:32 +0000

The Even Superiorly Greatest and Lovely Educational Life Hack: Learning Latin Ahead of Time

Show HN: Dumbercoin: a simplified Bitcoin – learning by breaking

litver — Sat, 11 May 2024 14:18:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maxlit/dumbercoin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40328242

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: grepbible – Grep the Bible

litver — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:15:30 +0000

a CLI (Python package) to look up Bible quotes, chapters, represent the Bible as parallel text in different languages, grep it locally on your computer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39645828

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

New comment by litver in "Show HN: I made a tool to transform Newsletters into Podcasts"

litver — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:26:56 +0000

I'd love to have it the other way round: a tool to transform Podcasts into Newsletters

Show HN: powerindex – calculate power indices from CLI

litver — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:08:30 +0000

A python library (runs also as CLI) to compute power indices (political science concept). Can be also (mis-)used for cost splitting or resource allocation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39275956

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by litver in "Scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs"

litver — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:09:28 +0000

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.

New comment by litver in "Scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs"

litver — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:05:54 +0000

Letter "D" comes from "door" not from "fish". It's wrong Egyptian hieroglyph.

New comment by litver in "Are super-rich people just better at making money?"

litver — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:44:17 +0000

binomial distribution re-branded as "Yard-sale model"

New comment by litver in "Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough"

litver — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:44:07 +0000

Maior pars mortalium, Pauline, ...

New comment by litver in "Mark Zuckerberg, let me pay for Facebook"

litver — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:08:48 +0000

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?

New comment by litver in "DevPort – Portfolios for Developers"

litver — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:00:52 +0000

links like a2.devport.co (i.e. *.devport.co) didn't work, the rest worked. Now, everything is down.

New comment by litver in "DevPort – Portfolios for Developers"

litver — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:52:28 +0000

it seems that the site is partly down: the portolio accounts have connection problem, yours including The rest works