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New comment by krzysiek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

krzysiek — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:03:11 +0000

A service summarising and simplifying EU laws, resolutiins, decisions and so on: https://euforya.eu/

One thing I find especially intriguing is how LLMs can help deal with desinformation:

- I experiment with deterministic settings of local LLMs for the document summary so that sharing a prompt would prove that the output was not tempered with (no desinformation on the service side)

- I add outputs of several LLMs (from the US, the EU and from China) for the "broader context" section so users could compare the output (no desiformation on the provider and model side)

Show HN: What the EU parliament and commission have been working on lately

krzysiek — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:30:08 +0000

I wanted to understand what exactly the EU commission and the EU parliament are working on.

I processed every legislation and resolution from the last month with gpt-oss:20b to figure out what goal every document is serving.

I also assigned an image corresponding to a category that each of this documents belongs to.

There is a feature flag in the URL, because there is still some work I have to do before fully opening up the list of EU commission texts. If you'd like to go outside of the goals page and explore the website, feel free to go to https://euforya.eu/?ff_reset=true to reset the feature flag and explore only the parliament texts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080584

Points: 1

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Show HN: A website that summarises all adopted texts of EU parliament

krzysiek — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:28:11 +0000

I live in the EU, and I was often asking myself what is actually going on in the EU institutions. I don't trust news that much, if not for other reasons then because of a strong bias towards extremes - you just can't learn what's the regular stuff an institution is working on. Then the original sources are incomprehensible for me - that's often a legal document with one sentence of like 8k words.

So I built EUforYa as some kind of an interface for what's going on in the parliament. I believe every EU citizen should have access to that. Right now I publish every adopted text. I plan to focus on the EU commission next, but even just the parliament summaries already give me a sense of what's going on in there.

As politicians often explain what's the legislation about, or what issues they see in a resolution, I fetch also all their social media posts and I translate them to English.

I think the website will be English for a while, but I plan to introduce i18n for all 24 official languages of the EU sooner or later.

I wonder especially: - Do you find it useful? - Do you find the style and language (focusing a lot on "young adults" - as the name slightly suggests) appealing or not? - Are the articles interesting for you (considering that I specifically try to make sure they are not sensational)? - What would make this service even more useful for you?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819497

Points: 3

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New comment by krzysiek in "Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI"

krzysiek — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:27:46 +0000

It didn't change for me (Also on Firefox/Android). I meant at the top of the screen in the menu section. An icon that resembles a piece of paper. On desktop it explicitly says "Show Olmo Trace" and both "piece of paper" icons work.

New comment by krzysiek in "Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI"

krzysiek — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:07:49 +0000

To see OlmoTrace go to https://playground.allenai.org/ and after you get the responce to your prompt, click the secod icon from the right on the top (at least on mobile). It took me a while to find it because there is another icon under the responce that looks the same but does something else.

Hieroglyphs are easier to read than they look [video]

krzysiek — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90An1dnvwyc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259657

Points: 1

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New comment by krzysiek in "Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia"

krzysiek — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:00:57 +0000

They still do, but they used to too.

New comment by krzysiek in "Ask HN: Every day feels like prison"

krzysiek — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:47:52 +0000

You're talking about checking boxes, but are they your boxes or the boxes of what seems to be the norm? Your own, deeply personal, true goals are the ones that can change how you work and feel about your work and life.

You could try coaching (look for ICF certified, or if you're in UK, AC certified coach). This would help you find goals that trully matter TO YOU, and develop fulfilling process for reaching these goals.

You could also try pschoterapy. This could help you be more self-aware and develop mental skills for dealing with feelings that you described.

New comment by krzysiek in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

krzysiek — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:40:37 +0000

My favorite part: "EU users will be confronted with a list of default browsers before they have the opportunity to understand the options available to them. The screen also interrupts EU users’ experience the first time they open Safari intending to navigate to a webpage."

I mean it's like saying that having a choice before being educated by one of the parties among the choices is a bad thing and it looks bad.

New comment by krzysiek in "Social media does not cause depression in children"

krzysiek — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:09:18 +0000

"the results were the same regardless of whether the children published posts and pictures via their own social media pages or whether they liked and commented on posts published by others." - so basically the study compared people that use social media actively and passively. It's harder to compare children that use social media with the ones that don't.

It seems to me that building expectations based on social media (e.g. just by browsing) is the real problem, not posting or not.

Show HN: How to start using TypeScript in your project in 5 minutes

krzysiek — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:21:46 +0000

@redux/toolkit is pretty awesome, but I kept feeling that managing global state could be easier, so I built `awesome-state`. Then I thought that it actually might be a good starting point for those that want to start using TypeScript but are afraid to convert their whole project to it. What do you think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35009956

Points: 1

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New comment by krzysiek in "Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats"

krzysiek — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:16:05 +0000

Honestly I believe that the other way around would be way better. There is a lot of inefficiencies in the way governments work, plus they operate like monopolies.

On the other hand there is competition between nonprofits, plus they are often multinational.

I find it interesting that some of the most efficient government organizations (like World Food Programme) actually operate as charities (in the sense that everyone can donate to them).

New comment by krzysiek in "Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats"

krzysiek — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:05:18 +0000

You're totally right about donations + value of time. Thank you for pointing that out. It's hard to tell if these numbers can be compared. Also [4] paints a very different picture (although it's for 2016).

I think that philanthropic assets should correlate to donations, but you're right also here the numbers from this source cannot be compared to the numbers I mentioned before.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl...

New comment by krzysiek in "Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats"

krzysiek — Tue, 24 May 2022 07:50:14 +0000

> In the contemporary world, philanthropy is distinctively American. We give about four hundred and seventy billion dollars a year—more if you count donations of time, physical labor, and material. America’s total is ahead of any other country’s, even as a percentage of G.D.P.

Well, this is just not true.

Americans give 2.1% of GDP to charity [1] while the whole world gives just under 3% [2]. Also when you take a look at a comparison between countries [3] you can see that the US is far behind (percentage-wise, not rank-wise) countries like Netherlands (14%) or Switzerland (13.3%)

1. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...

2. https://www.privatebank.citibank.com/newcpb-media/media/docu...

3. https://www.axios.com/2019/11/30/most-charitable-countries-w...

New comment by krzysiek in "We Chat, They Watch"

krzysiek — Fri, 08 May 2020 01:42:56 +0000

Looking at the comments I think that most of commenters missed an important point. It's not just that the app is tracking users, but the messages sent by any non-Chinese user help the regime censor the content for Chinese users. In other words, if you use WeChat, and you send a photo of something that happened in Hong Kong along with some text that explains it, then you actually help Chinese authorities to censor this photo in China.

> Upon analysis, files deemed politically sensitive are used to invisibly train and build up WeChat’s Chinese political censorship system.

Also I think it's super cool how they did the research.

Flyby Anomaly

krzysiek — Sat, 18 May 2019 13:41:31 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyby_anomaly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947327

Points: 4

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New comment by krzysiek in "Post-quantum cryptography"

krzysiek — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:38:56 +0000

IMHO it's not a matter of security vs the lack of it, but more around: easy, documented, accessible security vs security through obscurity.

Post-quantum cryptography

krzysiek — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:14:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432387

Points: 20

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New comment by krzysiek in "Multiplayer Go – Playtest and Feedback"

krzysiek — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:19:23 +0000

The board and the rules: https://multigogame.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/multiplayerg...

New comment by krzysiek in "Coming Soon: Gut Bacteria That Cure Disease"

krzysiek — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:31:32 +0000

It's tempting to say that some proof is not there yet, but considering the amount of studies published every year and inability to read even abstracts of all of them it's often far fetched. It was shown more than once that certain gut bacteria cure certain kinds of allergies: http://evidenceba.se/answers/17-allergies-can-be-treated-wit...