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Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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A scourge to what, exactly?

To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.

The industrial revolution created slums. Social progress made those go away – and I'm sure the factory owners decried it just as vehemently.

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.

The industrial revolution created slums. Social progress made those go away – and I'm sure the factory owners decried it just as vehemently.

The industrial revolution also created clean drinking-water systems, sewerage and wastewater treatment, basic sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, mass-produced vaccination, antibiotics, antisepsis and sterilization, anesthesia, obstetric and neonatal care technology, refrigeration and cold-chain logistics, food safety and industrial food processing, pasteurization, canning, mechanized agriculture, synthetic fertilizers, modern crop breeding and seed systems, electrification and power grids, hospital infrastructure engineering and medical imaging.

To name a few.

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The industrial revolution created slums. Social progress made those go away – and I'm sure the factory owners decried it just as vehemently.

The industrial revolution also created clean drinking-water systems, sewerage and wastewater treatment, basic sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, mass-produced vaccination, antibiotics, antisepsis and sterilization, anesthesia, obstetric and neonatal care technology, refrigeration and cold-chain logistics, food safety and industrial food processing, pasteurization, canning, mechanized agriculture, synthetic fertil…

The industrial revolution created a few of those things, but the term refers to a specific period of economic development between (quoth Wikipedia) "c. 1760 . c. 1840", where the production of several classes of goods was mechanised. Not all technological development since the 18th century is the industrial revolution. To pick one example from your list: synthetic fertilisers are largely due to the Haber process iirc, which was a 20th-century invention.

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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Hey there! I find the idea super relevant and I think compliance tools that can be used like this are the way forward. Given the timeline of the commits and some other tells (e.g. using forwardRef despite using React 19 which deprecates it), it seems like you used coding assistants extensively. That's a personal preference, but I would mention that explicitly (if that's the case), if only for intellectual honesty.

Thanks, appreciate the thoughtful feedback. You’re right that the commit history doesn’t fully reflect the raw development process. I did some cleanup and squashing before publishing, since this is an open-source project and I wanted the history to be readable and reviewable. I do use coding assistants as part of my workflow, mostly for iteration speed and boilerplate, but the architectural decisions, evaluation logi…

Is there a reason why you're using LLMs for comments as well?

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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What innovation do we have here from the EU? Its official name should be: The Official EU AI Act Compliance Regulation Conformance Tool MMXXVI v1.0 If you are one patch version behind, you are "non-complaint" and you will get fined immediately. We <3 EU!

This but unironically. Snuff Google, Microsoft and Apple with the passion of a thousand suns and never let their ashes rise again to threaten fair people. Signed, an American who is fed up with adslop and saasslop propaganda. Do not reward immoral megacorps.

As a person who's lived in Europe, I encourage you to try it. You'll find that there are some upsides to all the regulation, but also many downsides. More than you'd expect if you've never lived and worked in Europe before. Many things you take for granted - don't even think about - either don't work at all, or don't work well.

Not knocking Europe, but there's too much of a tendency online to picture Europe as some kind of Disneyland. Some of this is down to Americans who only know Europe from two-week holidays and picture it as a holiday utopia, some of it is Europeans who only know America from reality television and picture it as a hellscape.

Pop discourse != reality.

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A scourge to what, exactly?

To the human race. The only reason we're not living miserable animal lives is because of technological progress. Wanting to slow that down means you are anti human.

So your think that AI systems that pose a significant risk to basic human rights at scale, should not be subject to oversight and regulation, because that would be anti-human?

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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Hey there! I find the idea super relevant and I think compliance tools that can be used like this are the way forward. Given the timeline of the commits and some other tells (e.g. using forwardRef despite using React 19 which deprecates it), it seems like you used coding assistants extensively. That's a personal preference, but I would mention that explicitly (if that's the case), if only for intellectual honesty.

Hard disagree from me there. I don’t care what language a tool is built with, I’m neither interested in their choice of code editor, nor whether they use AI in the process or not. It’s a means to an end, not some flaw to be ashamed of and forced to disclose. If something gets built with AI or not at all, that’s a net positive as far as I’m concerned.

I care. Plenty of people care. You are free to ignore that piece of the readme.

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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Hard disagree from me there. I don’t care what language a tool is built with, I’m neither interested in their choice of code editor, nor whether they use AI in the process or not. It’s a means to an end, not some flaw to be ashamed of and forced to disclose. If something gets built with AI or not at all, that’s a net positive as far as I’m concerned.

I care. Plenty of people care. You are free to ignore that piece of the readme.

Point is I don’t want people to get shamed for their tools over some vague idea of intellectual purity.

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I care. Plenty of people care. You are free to ignore that piece of the readme.

Point is I don’t want people to get shamed for their tools over some vague idea of intellectual purity.

Point is I do

Re: Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

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Calling it "Conform" is very 1984esque. There is also a 2025 book (a dystopian romance) called the same: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223239535-conform

Needing to conform to various rules and regulations isn't exactly a new thing
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