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Show HN: I made a free compliance audit tool for websites to avoid fines
Hey HN. I'm Zack, and spent a week building this side project called PACT because I couldn't find anything like it out there for free. Of course, I made it free and no signup required.

It audits your website to surface any privacy or compliance issues. I used a pre-made data scraper to surface the compliance issues, then used Claude to present the results and offer suggestions to fix.

LMK what you think.

Cheers!
The Caterpillars That Can Kill You
How widely do you think this concept applies? Across countries? Across states? Across counties?
Such as your genetic ancestry
They both completely ignored the factory farming part AND the entire point of suffering/empathy towards mammals... At this point I'm thinking don't feed the trolls. the only reason to dance around that subject so much is to avoid admitting they don't care about the suffering. Which they are aware is not very socially acceptable even among the heaviest meat consumers .
I believe part of the problem is the fact that Aa.exe fil B is created BY packaging multiple library files And or graphics , arrays ETC. and there is no default order into which part of the EXE file they land.
there are some Tools ... hex editors come to mind. I seem to recall NOPING out A jump or two in my younger days
edit: the these days that probably wouldn't work due to CRC checks... but there was a time... Then again that may be just the perfect place to start riverus engineering;) smile I have some good memories of playing a Medal of honor in which I changed all the door Textures to transparent window textures and having to work around CRC protection... good times smiley :)
I wish there was a way to open an MS Office file on my Linux Mint laptop with the real Word or Excel—no emulators that barely work, or office365 and no sluggish Windows VMs. Just a smooth, native experience.
I learned about „lox“ in NYC, a native told me it comes from jiddish, which is kind of a german dialect.
Laws against defamation and fraud aren't exactly a new trend, nor are they limited to Europe.

I guess some people are surprised police might get involved in a defamation case because in the US it's not a crime but a civil wrong? Which means you can't get help from the police to identify the person who made a defamatory tweet? Or something?
I have my personal multimodal benchmark for physical robots.

You put a keyring with bunch of different keys in front of a robot and then instruct it pick it up and open a lock while you are describing which key is the correct one. Something like "Use the key with black plastic head and you need to put it in teeths facing down"

I have low hopes of this being possibe in the next 20 years. I hope I am still alive to witness if it ever happens.
> legality - RE is « forbidden » - bannable so in which you do not want to lose your account in which you have spent tens of thousands of hours or more, breaking authentication and DRM flows is [DRM, auth handshake, protecteions] illegal in USA

You are confused. Reverse engineering is perfectly legal in USA, but that of course is irrelevant when it comes to losing your account (which isn't yours to begin with).
here's the question, here's the code that ChatGPT produced. what's wrong with it?
> This is a sad outcome. The Bond franchise is very strong

Even back in the Broccoli years, Bond was garbage. The movie bond was a government assassin who we all pretended wasn't. Because sex. Ridiculous!

To Americans he also seemed smart and worldly. Because he had a British accent. Which sexy women liked. True, yet also ridiculous!

Can AMZN bury this relic faster than Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was reburied? Rate to find out!
It is worth noting there is _another_, completely unrelated project (also) called *EuroLLM* that is also EU funded which not only shares many of the same goals, but has already fulfilled many of them:

1. large multilingual dataset

2. open science approach

3. competitive performance

Here is the HF blogpost that introduced it in December 2024 (along with various benchmarks): https://huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-team/eurollm-9b

The project's lead has summarized the situation succinctly in their LinkedIn post [0]

I hope the different communities collaborate openly, share their expertise, and don't decide to reinvent the wheel every time a new project gets funded. Next what? "OpenEuroLLM with real cheese"?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andre-martins-31476745_ai-art...
That's the point of any ethical/moral discussions. Is self-defence a situation that does allow you to kill another person?

Does a mother who forgets to pull the hand break of the car and kills her son, should do jail time?

Does a police officer who shots and kills a person which is in a degraded mental state but threats his life, be accused of murdering?

Does a police officer who shoots a known murderer fugitive without following the standard procedure be prosecuted as a homicide?

See the point?
I think he means that you don't need to train a human to understand that a calculator is useful, and in particular when a problem is hard enough that you need to bust out a calculator. That sort of logic is self-apparent in humans, but struggles to be consistently evoked in LLMs.

That said, I was using simple +*-/ calculators as a small child and I don't think I needed to be taught anything other than MC/MR. The tool is intuitive if you are familiar with formal written arithmetic (of course hunter-gatherers couldn't make sense of it).
In Tor, individual websites get individual circuits to prevent this sort of profiling, and I think Obscura would need to do the same for the same level of anonymity.
I had a similar experience at Apple as well, except I took the punches for almost 4 years--you can take more punches when you're younger. I feel like a little bit of my soul died there.
Hi maintainers of Hurl here! We started very small also and HN helps us a lot to grow and gain popularity. Keep up the good work and the motivation!

The only advice I'll humbly give is to choose a "traditional" license, unless there is a very strong motivation to have a custom one.
Well, what actual value did cern produce beyond theoretical research with no application in sight?
Oh, well, this is a funny farm bot reposting every new stuff from lobste.rs https://lobste.rs/s/adk7dp/what_is_wrong_with_architecture_i...
The paid version of ChatGPT has had a built in Python runtime for well over a year.

The [>_] links to the Python code that was run.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67b79516-9918-8010-897c-ba061a2984...
The rampage isn't going to save money on net, and even if it did, it would amount to a fart in a hurricane.

Like.. we could just personally tax Elon a little bit more while changing nothing else and recover more money, most likely.

Elimination (or indefinite pause) of the CFPB that was a trade of 21 billion in consumer savings for like 750 million in expenses.

If they wanted to improve efficiency, there's an easy place to start: the IRS. And you wouldn't start by firing, you'd start hiring lots and lots of people.
Lynx (in tmux) is still my default browser. I only go for Firefox if I really have to. Its darn FAST, has no remote code execution, and is typically all you need to read text on the web. Its also a good test if the web dev is full of shit :-)
From the article:

> Here, we show that consumption of 0.15% aspartame (APM) markedly increased insulin secretion in mice and monkeys.

This would explain the published observations that diet soda drinkers consume additional calories in other parts of their diets: aspartame-sweetened diet soda -> insulin release -> low blood sugar -> hunger signals.

The first artificial sweetener was saccharin (1879). Saccharin is available as Sweet'n'Low (in the US, but not Canada), or as generics in 'the pink packet'. Aspartame is branded as NutraSweet or Equal, and is 'the blue packet'. Sucralose is Splenda, 'the yellow packet'. Extracts from the stevia plant are in 'the green packet'.

Aspartame was discovered in ~1965. Most of the 'traditional' diet sodas are sweetened with a mix of aspartame and Acesulfame Potassium, because aspartame is only stable in an acidic solution.

I think saccharin is relatively safe. I've personally witnessed someone deteriorate after sucralose consumption, so that's on my strict avoidance list.

tl/dr: I avoid blue and yellow. Pink is my new go-to for sweet cravings. Green is probably safe for adding a bit of sweet to your calories, unless you have a tendency to be allergic to everything.
gothic architecture, gothic literature, and the goth subculture are three very different uses of the word, all of which likewise have nothing to do with the original goths. (tangentially, there are amusing tshirts saying "if you're really a goth, where were you when we sacked rome?!")
A friend of mine has kept chickens in his backyard for years (not for egg-cost reasons). He said he did the math recently, and given just the cost of feed (not including the up-front cost of building the coop, or ongoing costs to maintain it), eggs would have to go up to ~$11/dozen for it to break even. While I have seen eggs that high recently (at a small convenience-store type place in a relatively HCoL area), that's certainly still not common.
> This is truly in accordance with european values, where we reward participation and proclamation.

Yes. In my experience the government is happy with "looks good doesn't work" as long as it truly looks good.
Especially for a problem as well-known as this, expect code for it to be seen by the model during training at least a thousand times in different languages, flavors etc. This, on its own, is nothing new.
From the web site: Open, compliant, diverse, yada yada.

In real life: you either train your LLM on Anna's archive, or get left behind with sub-par model
I always found links the most pleasant. A big factor was how often lynx asked about cookies, but now I know from the article I can set it to reject all I might revisit lynx. w3m seemed to set itself apart with the ability to show graphics which I didn't care about so never really gave it a chance.
When will people realize that the use of AI art in any piece of content is almost as bad as bad typo or ads. It devalues the content and even adds a barrier to acceptance and produces the feeling that the creator does not value my time and attention.
> it's annoying to get it right, and this kinda can't be fixed, because HTML is under a lot of backwards-compatibility constraints

Sorry, but this seems like a wild mischaracterisation, at least in regards to the problems I've had with users on Chrome. In our experience, Chrome aggressively shows an autofill prompt on almost every input it can. It also ignores the specced autocomplete=off attribute. We have observed Chrome showing a password prompt on an <input type=number> which is just bonkers. It is not hard NOT to do this.

The Chrome team thinks whatever heuristic they're using is better than allowing developers, or even end users, to control filling behaviour.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41163264
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41239842

(By "autofill" I don't necessarily mean the input is automatically filled without user interaction, but sometimes a promotions shown with e.g. account login details or an address.)

The argument has been that developers are naughty and turn off autocomplete inappropriately, which worsenes accessibility. But I've never seen e.g. a tooltip option in a browser to let me, the user, fill in details when I know they're appropriate? I am merely at the whim of the Chrome algorithm.
Some public school districts that are short of teachers will hire with just a Bachelor's degree, and then require you to obtain a teaching credential by a certain deadline. They might even give you some tuition reimbursement to help. Hiring criteria for substitute teachers also tend to be somewhat less rigorous.
OK, if you prefer: https://web.archive.org/web/20151211215507/https://openai.co...

It's normal to announce things long before they're actually available to end users. This is not some unique evil of the EU bureaucracy - if anything, it's very corporate of them.
Sounds like outsourcing/offshoring!
His father is a manager at Google, which means we shouldn’t assume that Google’s hiring decision is based solely on merit. Even if everything is entirely above board, having someone with direct experience in the hiring process coaching you is a big edge compared to what other applicants get.

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/profile/in/nanzhong

Re: the UC decisions, I hope this gets a fair investigation but I will note that I know multiple people who’ve been involved in university admissions who’ve all commented on how insanely competitive things are now at the top schools. Everyone got the message that they should major in CS over the last couple of decades and the programs mentioned in the news articles must get a hundred applicants for every open spot.

I’ve heard too many stories about turning down kids with perfect SATs, multiple AP 5s, great extracurriculars, etc. because they weren’t even the only graduate from their high school with those characteristics.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087892/nasa-starliner-...
"One of the things we can do, however, is change the nature of the interviews themselves. Coding interviews today are quite basic, anywhere from FizzBuzz, to building a calculator. With AI assistants, we could expand this 10x and have people build complete applications. I think a single, longer interview (2 hours) that mixes architecture and coding will probably be the way to go."

If that's where the things are going, I'm retraining to become a line cook at McDonalds.
You cannot scale, because you can't secure your agents
1) If pensions are so easily manipulated and stolen from, that's an argument against pensions, not an argument for them.

2) Although the factors you mention are real, they are much smaller than core issue, which is the state underfunding the pension, either explicitly or through unrealistic expectations of return.

3) Even granting that the present government should make sure that pensioners get their full benefits, why should current workers be the ones to bear the burden of past bad decisions by policymakers? You could just as well tax pension payments more highly, and use that revenue to fund the pensions.
> Use `<input type="file" id="avatar" name="avatar" accept="image/png, image/jpeg" />`. Opens the OS photo picker on mobile. You can style it however you like.

This just selects the image. 99 times out 100, you want to do the same things with the image data: adjust it in some way, and save it to object storage or something. The file input is too primitive for this. And this is the theme all over, HTML control remain too primitive to do any real world rih UI with, which leads to the proliferation of JS UI libraries.

> If you have autocomplete bugs to file, file them, and maybe convince the Interop group to focus on this issue. Their priorities for 2025 were just announced, but there's always next year. https://web.dev/blog/interop-2025

Autocomplete "bugs" abound aplenty, some of which will make your jaw drop. I've been testing with Chrome and Firefox. The length to which browsers will go in a misguided attempt to be clever with auto-complete is frankly absurd. So I'm not sure they are "bugs" so much as they are a wilful refusal by browser vendors to follow the spec.
Ultimately someone has root permissions. Re: federal agencies, in the United States, that someone is clearly, constitutionally, the President. Article II of the constitution vests all power of the executive in the person of the President. The President has authority to appoint agents. That same article _does also_ say the President has to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", but the "Care" there is highly debated. But the idea that the President doesn't have the right to appoint Musk to get root access to federal agencies seems legally incorrect.

I'm not make a value judgement on this, it's just how it is. At a startup, the founder ultimately has root access to the database, no matter what the technical controls.

Now, maybe it's stupid, and maybe it should be some other way, but to my mind the other way is that Congress gets together and writes a law saying "the executive cannot get root access to X, Y, Z". In absence of that law, the executive can do whatever they want.

Not to be THAT GUY, but "an append-only database which cannot be modified by anyone" is something HN has spent the past 10 years saying is completely useless...
I'd expect Musk and Bezos to know about von Neumann replicators; factories that make these robots staffed entirely by these robots all the way to the mines digging minerals out of the ground… rapid and literally exponential growth until they hit whatever the limiting factor is, but they've both got big orbial rockets now, so the limit isn't necessarily 6e24 kg.
Nobody is arguing that Sam Altman doesn't type in lowercase or that Steve Jobs didn't wear black turtlenecks.
Nonsense. Charter schools are secular public schools.
but that just Cursor actually is???? strip the chatgpt integration and it is just vscode
The post is honestly very normal — many mid level intellectuals think this way and love these talk downs of LLMs. I don’t understand it for the life of me.
Surely Amazon qualifies as a "big name" store same as Apple or Google, right?

Yes. That's why I listed it right next to Apple and Microsoft in my response.

https://www.rif.org
OpenAI has a real, groundbreaking product.

This has... a statement of intent to try to copy that product. Not remotely the same.
for 1.87m per project, you get in EU rather 15 - 20 people :)
(salaries are low here)
As a kid of about 5 or 6 years old I used my first calculator with no instruction whatsoever. We are not talking about scientific calculators. Addition, Multiplication. It does not require training or instruction, just a minute of exploration.
He ended up in control and the woke employees are gone. Isn’t that a win to his perspective?
I think typically as a solution to serious injury (e.g. result of a predator attack or otherwise) that can't be mended.

In my case, we had too many roosters and their competitive/protective behaviour was causing serious injuries to the hens, so we had to make the tough decision to reduce their numbers. Being in the middle of nowhere, there weren't many options for the rooster in question, so it seemed like the most humane thing to do at the time.
In what conditions are these eggs being produced?

Are these also codes 0 - 3, similar to the European ones, with different classes of the chickens living conditions?

$2 per dozen eggs is cheaper than in the poorest countries in Europe.
I think you are probably not comparing apple to apple. I think San Francisco is both a city and a county, while Seattle is a city within a county. Also, the San Francisco International Airport is managed by the city & county of San Francisco, while Seattle Tacoma international airport is managed by Port of Seattle, which is also separate from city of Seattle. The budget if city of San Francisco also includes Municipal Transportation Agency but city of Seattle budget doesn’t include king county metro and sound transit which are separate entity.
What are you referring to? Sure, chicken nuggets made mostly of breast or other muscle flesh exist, but you can bet your buns the majority of frozen nuggets are mostly ground skin and mechanically separated meat.

In the United States, mechanically separated poultry has been used in poultry products since 1969, after the National Academy of Sciences found it safe.
If your dog is hanging out with you, it's not guarding the henhouse.
And as you see in the responses here, most people miss the point, elect to patch over the aspects in which the lack of intelligence is glaring, and eventually the end product will be so hard to distinguish from actual intelligence that it's deemed "good enough".

Is that bad? Idk. If you hoped that real AGI would eventually solve humanities biggest problems and questions, perhaps so. But if you want something that really really looks like AGI except to some nerds who still say "well actually", then it's gonna be good enough for most. And certainly sufficient for ending up the dystopia from that movie clip in the end.
> No good reason or case can be made for one person or entity to have this scope of access to this many government agencies containing this much sensitive information.

The president should obviously have this level of access.
He's my theory: We use backstory to resolve ambiguity.

The ambiguity: "What's this a picture of?"

A possible answer: "a duck"

A backstory that gets us there: "The area colored white is background, and the area colored black is the foreground, and a black area with that shape of edge matches the silhouette of a duck."

Another ambiguity: "Why is the white not foreground?"

A backstory that gets us there: "Paper is white, ink is black, and when I want to draw, I use the ink to draw the duck on the paper."

So can we conclude that any person who answers "duck" got there through this particular backstory? Of course not! There are plenty of alternative paths to this conclusion.

The intention behind any ambiguous expression is lost forever. The choice of backstory will always be arbitrary.
I am puzzled by the fact that the modern LLMs don't do multiplication in the same way humans do it, i.e. digit by digit. Surely they can write an algorithm for that, but why can't they perform it ?
Subcutanean: Source Code Release
> No, you’re repeating neocon propaganda.

This is bizarre. I'm not repeating any propaganda, I just went and looked at a map. You can do the same.
> No there isn't. You can't, rightfully, campaign to make rape legal for a day without your life being ruined through ostracization.

You can't control what other opinions people will have of you, or suppress their expression of those opinions, that's true. But that itself is part and parcel of freedom of speech. The social consequences of expressing opinions that other people find offensive or disgusting are yours to bear, and may indeed motivate others to want to have little to do with you.

But this is juxtaposed against an expectation of freedom of speech as a cultural norm -- the point above is precisely that the way this is expressed in other contexts is different from the way it's expressed with respect to the political state. So we do have an expectation that formal institutions will not engage in prior restraint, or punish people for speech itself within most (but not necessarily all) categories, etc.

For example, people might find it reasonable that someone be dismissed from a job for making overtly racist comments in the office. But the same people would consider it inappropriate if, for example, an employee was fired for expressing that he does not like the boss's favorite movie.

There are absolutely different boundaries and different weighing of consequences between how we apply the norm of freedom of speech to political vs. social situations, but to say that we do not adhere to freedom of speech as a cultural norm at all is quite incorrect.
Then you should also question what flavor of censorship and bias US-made LLMs have.

Also, if someone says something that could threaten my safety (either directly or through inciting others) I would very much like them to get a visit from the police. This situation is so easily avoided by not being a dick to people.
> His father is a software engineering manager at Google already

Maybe everybody who's been denied employment at Google, and met all of Google's hiring requirements, should sue Google for nepotism, eh?