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Edit an SQLite database in your browser(editsqlite.com)

66 points by chmaynard 2 days ago | 31 comments

> loaded into the working model — the original file is untouched and will stay that way

Commentary text like this, once described here on HN as essentially the chat context leaking into the application, is absolute anathema to me. Something about it makes me irrationally annoyed and immediately not want to use the software.

I think, to me, it signals the pinnacle of vibe-coding in the sense that I can't imagine that the output was looked at closely and the copy still remained. When my own agents try to write stuff like that, I remove it immediately.

Like I said, maybe irrational.

[–] vatsachak 8 hours ago

Nah, not irrational. No application should show the logic at the forefront. It's just claude-ese convention from RLVR

[–] 14u2c 3 hours ago

You're definitely not wrong. It's the new code smell.

[–] jwilcoxson 1 hour ago

It’s very annoying. Claude specifically will tend to treat minor clarifying details in a prompt as major features.

I’ve also noticed it likes to spam a UI with explanatory text for every control. Almost like it wants to do tooltips, but doesn’t understand the exact UI for them.

[–] fwilhe 7 hours ago

4 matches for 'honest'. Why does claude like that word so much? Honestly?!

[–] EGreg 7 hours ago

I’ll be straight with you… I think it’s the RLHF. That is the most load-bearing aspect

[–] vatsachak 8 hours ago

"contact@editsqlite.com — answered by the person who built it"

I doubt this

[–] neya 5 hours ago

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I know a lot of folks would argue it is a poor indicator, but more often than not I've been right on so many occasions because of the heavy usage of 'em dashes

[–] choccymalk 5 hours ago

For some value of “person” and “built”.

[–] ivanjermakov 7 hours ago

Exactly what a bot would say!

[–] hartjer 6 hours ago

Brilliant, upload your data and access it through some third party via a browser. No concerns here.

[–] goestoo 6 hours ago

It's run locally on your browser. (I'm not using this service; I just tested with a dummy database.)

[–] masfuerte 6 hours ago

Firefox has "File | Work Offline" but it would be nice if a site could invoke this after its assets were loaded, with a clear indication in the browser chrome.

It would make it much easier to trust these offline sites.

[–] Natfan 6 hours ago

TIL about "Work Offline" in a browser! i mean it makes sense, even if it initially sounds counter-intuitive

[–] mjcohen 8 hours ago

I use "Note Everything" on my Android phone. I found is uses a SQLite db for storing its info. Might try this for extracting the contents if I ever want to move to Apple phone.

Just tried it. I have Note Everything save to Google Drive. Extracted that zip file, read it here, saved the text notes as csv, looked at it in txtedit. Great!!!!

Could write a gawk program to recreate the notes in directories.

[–] colecut 6 hours ago

Thanks for mentioning this, I'm still looking for the best note app for me, and this looks nice for storing photos along with notes..

Since it stores to sqldb I could probably sync the db to a webserver and build a web frontend for presentation.

[–] altermetax 8 hours ago

That whole homepage sounds like Claude

[–] seemaze 8 hours ago

I wish there was a link to the repo included on the website. I assume that it is this one..?

https://github.com/sharma3361/editsqlite

[–] QGQBGdeZREunxLe 6 hours ago

This seems like a common design framework I am seeing on multiple AI created projects. Is it just Tailwind or is it using ShadCN?

[–] wg0 8 hours ago

How anyone cannot produce the same thing by just pointing an AI agent to it?

[–] vatsachak 8 hours ago

This is like a one hour claude project

[–] thaumasiotes 7 hours ago

It's also valueless. If you want a graphical interface to SQLite, they already exist. Look at https://sqlitebrowser.org/ .

[–] agilek 7 hours ago

It doesn’t run in the browser.

[–] thaumasiotes 7 hours ago

So what? Why do you want your database viewer to run in the browser?

[–] netsharc 2 hours ago

I've used a Firefox extension which purpose was SQLite viewing/editing. I guess it's half "runs in the browser" and half "it still needs to be installed".

[–] skinfaxi 7 hours ago

Because you can visit a website on your phone or places you can't install native software.

[–] bbkane 7 hours ago

It's sandboxed!

[–] fishtoaster 9 hours ago

Reminds me of an old hack project I did: https://tabdb.io/ Edit + query an SQL database whose data is stored exclusively in your browser tabs.

[–] circussss 8 hours ago

Like a pglite?

[–] d1l 8 hours ago

Jesus... How the fuck is this even on the frontpage?

[–] iLemming 7 hours ago

The point of art is not necessarily to look pretty, sometimes is to raise questions or challenge assumptions, to evoke emotions - make you feel disgusted, angry, befuddled.

Some modern "artists" take it to the extremely provocative form, a lot of what gets mocked as lazy conceptual art is lazy not because it's offensive but because the idea could be stated in one sentence and the object adds nothing to it.

I suppose we're witnessing a new form of lazy, lame art - concepti-slop "art of coding". Which could often be described in one sentence:

> How the fuck is this even on the frontpage?