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Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
by hiepler | 2026-01-09 19:11:57+00:00
I built this as a personal open-source project to explore how EU AI Act
requirements can be translated into concrete, inspectable technical checks.

The core idea is local-first compliance:
– risk classification (Articles 5–15, incl. prohibited use cases)
– bias evaluation using CrowS-Pairs
– automatic Annex IV–oriented PDF reports
– no cloud services or external APIs (browser-based + Ollama)

I’m especially interested in feedback on whether this kind of
technical framing of AI regulation makes sense in real-world projects.
by emsign | 2026-01-09 19:12:01+00:00
Yeah. Tech companies are coming for our hardware. Next step is OSes with agentic AI turning it from a system with frameworks and libraries with apps seperate from the base system, into a system that only runs AI models that the "owner" of the hardwre has no control over and the lines between the OS and the AI is very blurred.

This totally beats the purpose of owning or using tech. Might as well go off grid and live a non-tech life.

Big tech wants to colonize our hardware completely because data centers alone ain't cutting it.

1$ Trillion has to be paid back to the investors plus interests. They screwed up with AI and we have to pay for it. Or maybe they didn't screw up because big money always gets bailed out by the plebs.
by dweekly | 2026-01-09 19:12:05+00:00
I think one interesting context to consider in this is cloud repatriation. Economics that didn't really pencil out half a decade ago may be worth revisiting for a lot of organizations who now find that their actual bare metal needs are quite modest and can be well met by a few modern servers. The IOPS/$ graph here contrasting on-prem w/cloud in particular is quite telling.
by Supermancho | 2026-01-09 19:12:20+00:00
> I'm trying to square this guy's experience with all of the homeless people who don't seem nearly so lucky.

Although I don't think there's an image to confirm,
"Informed Attractiveness", aka "Pretty people are always happy to espouse how friendly strangers are to them" - probably applies. There's also simple charisma which carries a long way. I wouldn't say I was ever super hot (maybe a 7 at one point), but I can point to many situations where I benefitted from being attractive (in appearance, action, or mannerism). Some tangled beard doesn't change host most people perceive me.
by afpx | 2026-01-09 19:12:28+00:00
Interestingly, the New Testament forewarns that the church will attract all kinds of sinful people, too: hypocrites, Pharisees, abusers, false prophets, false teachers, “wolves”, and those of dead faith as you mention. Jesus and the apostles consistently assume corruption, misuse of authority, and false prophets will exist.

This is further reflected in the biblical distinction between the visible and invisible church and Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares: genuine followers and the others grow together until the final judgment.

So, many people know that only a small minority of “Christians” are actually faithful followers of Jesus (i.e. regularly read Scripture and live in obedience to it). And, some estimates place this number as low as 1%.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-09 19:12:41+00:00
Very sad day for the EU during an already very sad period.

First, this vote by the commission is a mockery of the EU own rule. The commission is not competent for comprehensive deal mixing trade and cooperation and splitting the deal like they have done at behest of Germany is a disgrace and likely illegal. I hope and fully expect the ECJ to strike this down.

Second the content of the deal is completely outdated. No mirror close while the EU tightened their own rules so much is insane. The alleged safe guards are completely insuffisant. We are basically saying it's ok for a foreign sellers to do things we ban here. It's even more insane when you consider that it's Bayer actually selling the banned pesticides and they are amongst the companies benefiting the most from the deal.

Third the market we are supposedly opening to Europe have already moved on. European automakers already have factories in the Mercosur so exports won't move. The only things which will change is how expensive it is to ship parts so the deal is basically lining up the margins of auto companies with no local job increase. That leaves pharmaceutical and industrial machineries but even there Europe is quickly losing ground to China and India. The commission knows that and pivoted into pretending the deal is actually about securing source of raw materials like lithium from Argentina but ironically the main consumers of this lithium in Europe will be Chinese companies factories in Hungary. We are destroying the livelihood of our farmers, a fully local part of the economy, to help China.

Fourth the deal affects various countries in a massively unequal way with clear losers and counties which incorrectly think they win. I can't stop noticing that it's always the same country blocking common investments, blocking transfers, using the common currency and internal devaluation to prop up its exports at the expense of its neighbors, killing common procurement to try to favour its own industrial base, currently trying to destroy our space industry so moneys go to its startup. So much for the supposed solidarity I guess. There is very little union in the so called European Union.
by mike_hearn | 2026-01-09 19:12:44+00:00
Literally three days ago: https://www.complianceweek.com/regulatory-policy/eu-agrees-r...

"Payment service providers (PSPs) operating in the EU will have to cover customers’ losses from fraud if their fraud protection regimes are inadequate or poorly implemented under new EU rules."

Other places like the UK had such rules already.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-09 19:12:54+00:00
Payment cost inflates product and service costs, and is a tax on those who pay cash and don't receive cash back rebates. You have to cut out the middlemen who are skimming the economy for little to no value. You can move up to $10M in value in the US on FedNow instant payment rails for a few pennies, instantly (~20 second SLA 24/7/365), for example [1].

Now, with regards to your specific inquiry, your unsophisticated consumer probably cares more about points and cash back. How do you disincentivize that? As a merchant, you offer free instant payment options and surcharge the customer to use more expensive payment rails (credit cards, for example). At least in the US, we're on our way in that regard (Walmart is offering pay by bank using instant payment rails to avoid billions in interchange costs [2]).

You might find this latest CFPB report helpful [3], as well as this McKinsey report on payments [4] for further reading. I'd also recommend the Fintech Takes mailing list [5].

[1] FedNow Service will raise transaction limit to $10 million to meet increased demand, unlocking higher-value use cases - https://www.frbservices.org/news/fed360/issues/091625/fednow... - September 16th, 2025

[2] Walmart Plans Instant Bank Payments, Cutting Out Card Networks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593450 - September 2024

[3] CFPB: The Consumer Credit Card Market Report to Congress - https://web.archive.org/web/20250601000000*/https://files.co... - December 2025

[4] The 2025 McKinsey Global Payments Report: Competing systems, contested outcomes - https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-i... - September 26th, 2025

[5] https://fintechtakes.com/
by izacus | 2026-01-09 19:13:14+00:00
> So, my question to all that fight this "quality obsessed developer" is: Why have I never met any developer obsessed about the code quality, but I hear about them all the time?

I wonder where those guys are too, since most of the things I see are poorly made slop. This is similar to the "premature optimization" scaring - I've never seen those engineers going into the weeds optimizing bytes in code... but I've see so much code that's been 10.000 - 1.000.000x slower than it had to be and hurt users.
by oytis | 2026-01-09 19:13:31+00:00
Not sure you can call it censorship if it's the author of the book who doesn't want you to access it for free. I know there are a few levels of indirection here, but with a few notable exceptions authors are normally against their books being pirated.

I personally sure want Anna's Archive staying up, but comparing it to nazis burning books is a bit too much IMO
by heraldgeezer | 2026-01-09 19:13:46+00:00
>as usual, a law was created without verifying how the implementation of such law would work in practice (something very common in Italy), and this is the result.

This is everywhere.

The reason is you DONT want a law to be too detailed with tech mumbo jombo. If too detailed, it will get outdated. See that USA crypto wars ban in the 90s.
by pvsukale3 | 2026-01-09 19:13:51+00:00
India doesn’t have a single “govt ban rooted phones from banking apps” rule, but RBI’s digital payment security controls explicitly allow banks to block mobile apps on rooted/jailbroken devices, and many do. Combine that with device+SIM binding requirements and platform attestation (e.g., Play Integrity), and the practical result is often “no banking/UPI on rooted phones.”
by moosedev | 2026-01-09 19:13:58+00:00
This, but (or "and") use the 4-row layout that dozens of tracker programs used[0], to fit over 2 octaves on the computer keyboard.

On a US keyboard:

QWERTYUIOP[] is the white keys starting at middle C. (The row above is the black keys; the 2 key plays C#.)

ZXCVBNM,./ is the white keys starting an octave lower. (S plays a low C#.)

The two ranges overlap; e.g. Q and , both play C in the same octave.

Grew up composing music on a computer this way when my (musical) keyboard didn't have MIDI and I couldn't afford a better one :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
by exceptione | 2026-01-09 19:14:13+00:00
Your context window is too small, you ignored all my input.

Besides, I hope this isn't yet a minority stance on here, a democratic state is hopefully more powerful than a company, yes, indeed. The mode of a state captured by the biggest enterprises isn't really something we should run to, right?

What mr. twitter account could have done is vent all his outrage, without normalizing all that other shit. Then he has media attention and most likely some public debate, unlike many other sufferers whose life are less interesting. And you know what? The people could have found that he had a point! He could have triggered some further debate in parliament, some adjustment from the law makers. You know, the usual, normal way of respecting the rule of law, especially when you heavily disagree with one aspect of it.

Because that is what is meant by participating in what we call democracy.

I am sorry for my lack of sugar coating, but man do I get upset by the normalization of anti-democratic thinking here.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-09 19:14:20+00:00
ICE has routinely done this to protestors, on film. Are you saying those occurrences were attempted murder and ICE should be prosecuted?

If it's an offense worthy of a mother being murdered and a child orphaned, extrajudicially on the street, then surely the much lighter sentence of imprisonment for attempted murder by ICE officers would be called for, all things being the same, correct? At the least they should be tried and taken to court, wouldn't you agree?
by kcplate | 2026-01-09 19:14:23+00:00
There is no more need for me to comment on this any further save this: As I predicted, additional footage is now emerging that is showing her actions well prior to the shooting, people coming out who knew her and are describing her connections to activism and affiliations to the media and investigators, and the very words of the woman’s partner as to what they were doing right after the incident on site were recorded. All of this will ultimately contribute into the overall legal analysis into this incident.

Edit:

Also, the ICE agent who shot her POV video in realtime of the incident has just been released and it includes the interaction with the the driver and what appears to be the driver’s partner.
by hairofadog | 2026-01-09 19:14:24+00:00
They have released a version of the masked agent's bodycam. Seems to be another Rorschach test: they released it because they think it's exculpatory, but to my eyes it's even worse. He's engaged in a petty argument with the driver, tries to block her car with his body as she drives away, shoots her, then says "fuckin' bitch!" after he's killed her.

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mbz3v...
by jkubicek | 2026-01-09 19:14:26+00:00
Man, US immigration has been dysfunctional my entire life and it's only gotten worse during the last 10 years. I can't imagine being trusting enough to fork over a $15k bond to the US government. What are you going to do when you're safely back home in the EU and they refuse your refund? What authority would stand any chance of recovering your money?
by simne | 2026-01-09 19:15:11+00:00
You could transfer different bands via different coils on different frequencies, but unfortunately, capacity of information channel is limited by frequency. Because of this, radio using high frequency waves as carrier (radio or light, or even some sort of invisible rays), not coil, and have hassle with some sort of modulation of waves.

This mean, you could not transfer more information than half of maximum frequency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...

Very good channels with very high signal to noise ratio, could handle more bits than Shannon limit (on engineers slang "channel is ringing", such example is fiber channel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...

Most modern research also consider some digital techniques of sound (information) compressing, like use LLM as (de)compressor (google llm compression algorithms).
by sointeresting | 2026-01-09 19:15:16+00:00
Cool idea but from personal experience it's probably not worth much. I'm lucky enough to live on the top floor apartment and I've had multiple issues with multiple neighbors over the years. Maybe the leasing office where I live is worse than others, but they basically just ignore complaints.

I came home from a holiday a few years ago and woke up to a dog howling at 7:00am. This was new. This new dog (a husky, lol) would completely lose it's mind any time the owner, my downstairs neighbor, would leave it alone for any amount of time. Like the moment he shut the door. I work from home so it was difficult to focus while this dog would scream it's lungs out for hours at a time during the day. I complained to the office and left a note on the neighbor's door and got no response from either. After a few weeks I decided to handle it, stayed up to 3:00am, walked into my bedroom (directly above his bedroom) and jumped up and down as hard as I could for as long as I could. I bruised my heel on the floor but in the morning there was no barking and it stopped completely, which means it could have ended any time, they just didn't care. I have several other stories that all ended more or less the same way. No one gives a fuck until they are personally affected. You must fight fire with fire.
by pico303 | 2026-01-09 19:15:19+00:00
I absolutely hate this article. So you want me to learn, understand, and write code in a format an LLM can ingest so you can more easily copy and paste my knowledge? Seems like the worst of all possible worlds: I work for you for nothing, you and the LLM make money on my work, and you get to produce terrible software someone else has to maintain when you move on to the next "problem." How mercenary of you.
Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator
by donutthejedi | 2026-01-09 19:15:21+00:00
I (17y/o) have been developing a rocket launch simulation that allows the user to explore what it's like launching a rocket from earth and putting it into orbit. This idea originally started as an educational simulation but as i've gone more down the rabbit hole the more i've wanted to make it realistic. The problem is that I've never had a formal orbital mechanics class or anything like that so I don't know what I'm missing, what I currently have implemented is:

Variable gravity
Variable Atmospheric drag (US Standard Atmosphere 1976)
Multi-stage rockets
Closed-loop guidance / pitch programs (works well within ranges 350km to 600km)
Orbital prediction and thrusting options to change your orbit.

The feedback I'm looking for is: UI improvements and possible future physics implementations that I can work on.

Current code and physics can be found at: https://github.com/donutTheJedi/Rocket-Launch-Simulation
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-09 19:15:22+00:00
"Tech and speech regulation is a central feature of that conflict"

The only conflict is that Europeans don't want Russian Misinformation and Manipulation from foreign powers onto them. It's no accident that Musks X serves preferentially content from European Far-Right Parties.

The US used the same argument for their TikTok-Ban/Forced Takeover. They also don't make a secret out of their plan to push the far-right to end the EU. They even wrote about this in their new National Security Strategy

Pure Hypocrisy
by WesleyJohnson | 2026-01-09 19:15:47+00:00
My disconnect is I can't read sheet music. So I can hear it, then memorize where it is on the piano/keyboard... but that just teaches you play piano by ear. It doesn't teach you how to play music in the traditional sense.

I guess this showing you the sheet music as you find the notes can help with that, but as others noted - I'd like a "mess around" mode, before a "test" mode.
by Jigsy | 2026-01-09 19:15:47+00:00
People say the same thing about anime artwork and manga, which is an excuse I don't buy into.

The only reason I personally can't condone photorealistic AI images is because they're indistinguishable from photographs.

And in this case, it's required the exploitation of another human being (their photograph, or a photograph of them) in order to undress/manipulate the image.
by Alex2037 | 2026-01-09 19:15:50+00:00
yeah. Americans are one media campaign away from having to argue for their right to possess fully semiautomatic general purpose computers with high capacity peripherals. Europeans and the rest of the collective West won't even get such courtesy, their young global leaders don't need to justify their actions to the unwashed masses.

all they really need to do is to make the Internet inaccessible from any device except the castrated thin clients that our computers are doomed to be replaced with. and that can be done trivially.
by dnalang | 2026-01-09 19:15:53+00:00
I just finished a run on IBM's Heron r1 processor (ibm_torino).

Standard QEC (Surface Code) fails at this depth because the gate error rate (~2%) is above the threshold. Instead of correction, I implemented a distributed consensus protocol (Majority Vote) using a 10-qubit Star Topology.

Raw Fidelity: 68.09%

Corrected Fidelity: 98.85%

It’s effectively a "Self-Healing" logical qubit. The repo has the raw telemetry and the bimodal error graph.

I believe this is the software bridge we need while we wait for hardware error rates to drop below 0.1%. Happy to answer questions about the topology.
by 0x_rs | 2026-01-09 19:16:08+00:00
The appeal to an open internet from Cloudflare to Elon and Peter Thiel's stuffed toy is evidence this is not about freedom of speech but a political game. The AGCOM requests are inane and the so-called "Piracy Shield" sponsored by sports team corporations currently eyeing VPNs needs to go and those responsible for it must pay, but this doesn't make this right, either. And the current USA "cabal" isn't shadowy, rather right up your face, mocking you every day.
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-01-09 19:16:12+00:00
To my knowledge, no. In the recent past, either you could cross via the the Wagah-Attari border crossing or get on the Thar Express train [1], which connects Karachi with Jodhpur via the Zero Point crossing. But the Thar Express has been closed since 2019.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thar_Express
by dang | 2026-01-09 19:16:19+00:00
Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling, and please don't take HN on generic ideological tangents of flamewar tangents.

You may not owe $CEO better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

All of this should be clear if you've reviewed https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html recently.
by giardini | 2026-01-09 19:16:32+00:00
twixfel says >"Sometimes extreme things happen."<

I agree with that. Perhaps this is one of those "extreme things". But current interpretations of this event are politically extreme and harmfully polarizing to us as a people. So all the more reason to be cautious and circumspect.

twixfel says >"

[giardini]>In the end, the investigation will likely show that neither of the two extreme interpretations currently polarizing public opinion is correct.

[twixfel'>"is just a mad, mad take. It is literal prejudice, either way. Just an opinion based on basically nothing."

[giardini] Neither you nor I were present when the event occurred and, even were we present, we would not have experienced all viewpoints. To presume we understand completely what happened in toto and what should be done as a consequence of the event would compound mistake upon mistake.

Please remain calm.

My viewpoint is neither "a mad, mad take" nor "literal prejudice". nor "an opinion based on basically nothing". My viewpoint is a statement of our individual ignorance, of our lack of complete information, and a claim that none of us are omniscient. And it is a request that we be patient and trust our juridical system to proceed the way it was intended.

Although difficult, We must withhold judgement until all evidence has been presented.
by fainpul | 2026-01-09 19:16:41+00:00
I just tested Brave. It's possible to set anything as the default search engine, but the UI hides it really well. They sure don't want you to find out. You have to add it as a site search first (which is a different section), then you can make that "default", which moves it up to the search engines and makes it the default search engine.

And sure enough, Safari on macOS seems to not allow it at all (needs extensions).
by jedwhite | 2026-01-09 19:16:54+00:00
At the moment, it looks like Claude Code does not support using ‘temperature’ or ‘seed’ flags. It would be awesome if they add that.

Using the request to use a seed within the prompt will mean that when Claude rights the code it could use that seed inside what it writes for randomize functions. But sadly it wouldn’t impact Claude’s own text generation’s determinism.

There is active interest on GitHub to support this. But the most recent issue with it I could see was closed in July as “not planned”
by languagehacker | 2026-01-09 19:16:58+00:00
When the Cato institute publishes something like this it's all over. These guys used to be considered incredibly conservative. For them to submit something so level-headed and factual which goes counter to a Republican-led administration's politices indicates that the current government is being run not by folks engaging in good faith with our existing political institutions, but with radicals intent on twisting those institutions for their own agenda.

Please remember that 23% of those with no conviction but pending charges should be considered innocent until proven guilty. If you get hit with a traffic stop, you shouldn't be lumped in with violent offenders. That's not how our justice system works.
by mr_00ff00 | 2026-01-09 19:17:01+00:00
Cloudflare is talking about Italian law and Italian policy and making comments about his actions they will take in Italy with Italian users specifically.

“Italian here” as in “I am not a random person with no skin in the game / I live in the country and presumably am more well informed on the policy he is talking about.

If there was a post about a law in nyc, I think it would be helpful to hear takes from New Yorkers.