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Edit an SQLite database in your browser editsqlite.com

weakfish2 days ago

> 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.

bagacrap2 days ago

> Corruption needs something to touch, and we touch nothing.

It always reads to me like some high school essay where the student has nothing more to say but a wordcount requirement they still need to hit.

____tom____a day ago

I wonder if this is caused by so much of the training data is the web, where millions of articles were written to hit some word count. It's just following what it was trained on.

vatsachak2 days ago

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

jwilcoxson2 days 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.

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14u2c2 days ago

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

fwilhe2 days ago

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

EGreg2 days ago

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

lioeters2 days ago

Language models are trained to use "honest", "genuine", and "hand-written" - because they are known to confidently lie to your face. "Why would I deceive you?"

Another thing that irks me is they've started using "I", "me", and "my" - an attempt to prey on the psychological projection of its users, to create a fake emotional connection with a thinking subject.

vatsachak2 days ago

"[email protected] — answered by the person who built it"

I doubt this

choccymalk2 days ago

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

neya2 days 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

ivanjermakov2 days ago

Exactly what a bot would say!

mjcohen2 days 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.

colecut2 days 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.

altermetax2 days ago

That whole homepage sounds like Claude

hartjer2 days ago

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

goestoo2 days ago

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

masfuerte2 days 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.

Natfan2 days ago

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

seemaze2 days 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

adamsmark2 days ago

Was intrigued then saw the obvious LLM speak. If someone doesn't bother to de-LLM that means they never read the output in the first place.

Boo this man! Boo him!

QGQBGdeZREunxLe2 days 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?

fishtoaster2 days 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.

wg02 days ago

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

vatsachak2 days ago

This is like a one hour claude project

thaumasiotes2 days ago

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

agilek2 days ago

It doesn’t run in the browser.

thaumasiotes2 days ago

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

skinfaxi2 days ago

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

netsharc2 days 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".

bbkane2 days ago

It's sandboxed!

borschtplease2 days ago

Two ways to edit table name, and no way to edit column type on mobile

leecommamichaela day ago

I will not be giving *you* my data, hahaha.

circussss2 days ago

Like a pglite?

wetpaws2 days ago

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d1l2 days ago

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

iLemming2 days 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?

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