alt Hacker NewsShow HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
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.
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"EuConform" <- I love the name. Not sure if you meant it as it reads, but I love it.
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
in this case the best compliance is non compliance
degrowth decels are a scourge
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!
Glad to see future builders focusing on bureaucratic compliance first & foremost. It's a stirring vision. This is a great European VC on Twitter you may want to tag about your project, he invests solely in GDPR-compliant European tech https://x.com/compliantvc
If you are not European, it doesn't seem very attractive for non-Europeans to deal with all the anti-business regulations.
Also just from the data that has been shared with me chargebacks/complaints/nitpicking/stinginess alone from this region seems to demoralizing compared to Americans/East Asia
We have this idealized view of a rich affluent "Europe" born from Marshall Plan but that certainly is not the actual reality today.
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.