United States Code (federal laws) in Git
by nickvido on 4/3/2026, 11:18:10 AM
https://github.com/nickvido/us-code
Comments
by: cvoss
> Not all titles are positive law — some titles are "evidence of law" rather than the legal text itself (see 1 USC § 204)<p>The vocabulary of this sentence is inconsistent with section 204 [0]. It is the positively enacted titles which are "legal evidence of the laws". The other titles merely "establish prima facie" what the law is, subordinate to a closer examination of the bills actually passed, which control. In other words, "evidence of law" is the stronger of the two, not the weaker, as the readme suggests.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/204" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/204</a>
4/3/2026, 2:01:25 PM
by: cap11235
Dupe: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621591">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621591</a>
4/3/2026, 2:02:50 PM
by: mrweasel
A few years ago I was thinking about how one might do the same for Danish laws, but those are written by idiots (lawyers).<p>Rather than revising a law, a new one seems to be written using text like: The word "is" replaces the word "was" in line 5 and 6 in "Law on X,Y,Z, paragraf 8, section 5". Or "section 9 in Law on Q,V,W is removed, in favour of the following text".<p>Why the hell you not just rewrite the old law and bump the revision? After just two revision it's basically impossible to read the actual law. I think that's on purpose.
4/3/2026, 2:02:31 PM
by: bnchrch
There's an interesting side effect to the current state of the non-technical world.<p>We have some new tools that increase productivity, and these same tools both lower the barrier to entry to understanding software concepts and building software.<p>I think the result is more people who would've been traditionally considered non-technical are going to be onboarding to concepts that wouldve been traditionally ring fenced in the developer world.<p>Granular version control and diffs being one of them.<p>If this trend is real, and relatively large, I think it will be a good thing.
4/3/2026, 2:11:55 PM
by: dataflow
Is there one for the Statutes at Large?
4/3/2026, 1:33:40 PM
by: brodouevencode
hot take: this is how legislation should work<p>open comments, accepting pull requests, use AI tooling to weed out the ragebait and trolling for things that might actually be useful
4/3/2026, 1:19:43 PM