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Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by woailuo on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:02AM (#50255180)
Ilove india
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by fishtoaster on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:15PM (#50294353)
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.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by mjcohen on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:23PM (#50294451)
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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by colecut on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:39PM (#50296477)
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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by circussss on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:24PM (#50294466)
Like a pglite?
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by seemaze on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:27PM (#50294499)
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

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by d1l on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:37PM (#50294630)
Jesus... How the fuck is this even on the frontpage?
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by iLemming on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:48PM (#50295689)
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?

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by weakfish on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:49PM (#50294788)
> 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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by vatsachak on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:13PM (#50295140)
Nah, not irrational. No application should show the logic at the forefront. It's just claude-ese convention from RLVR
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by 14u2c on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:54PM (#50298549)
You're definitely not wrong. It's the new code smell.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by jwilcoxson on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:52PM (#50299333)
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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by bagacrap on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:22AM (#50299844)
> 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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by ____tom____ on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:23PM (#50307167)
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.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by altermetax on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:02PM (#50294957)
That whole homepage sounds like Claude
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by wg0 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:09PM (#50295072)
How anyone cannot produce the same thing by just pointing an AI agent to it?
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by vatsachak on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:10PM (#50295085)
This is like a one hour claude project
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:27PM (#50295388)
It's also valueless. If you want a graphical interface to SQLite, they already exist. Look at https://sqlitebrowser.org/ .
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by agilek on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:30PM (#50295426)
It doesn’t run in the browser.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:34PM (#50295487)
So what? Why do you want your database viewer to run in the browser?
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by skinfaxi on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:45PM (#50295646)
Because you can visit a website on your phone or places you can't install native software.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by bbkane on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:06PM (#50295983)
It's sandboxed!
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by netsharc on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:35PM (#50298815)
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".
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by vatsachak on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:09PM (#50295079)
"[email protected] — answered by the person who built it"

I doubt this

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by ivanjermakov on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:57PM (#50295829)
Exactly what a bot would say!
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by neya on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:17PM (#50296977)

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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
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by choccymalk on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:13PM (#50297582)
For some value of “person” and “built”.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by fwilhe on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:26PM (#50295368)
4 matches for 'honest'. Why does claude like that word so much? Honestly?!
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by EGreg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:39PM (#50295553)
I’ll be straight with you… I think it’s the RLHF. That is the most load-bearing aspect
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by lioeters on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:21AM (#50299836)
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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by hartjer on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:16PM (#50296128)
Brilliant, upload your data and access it through some third party via a browser. No concerns here.
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by goestoo on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:30PM (#50296364)
It's run locally on your browser. (I'm not using this service; I just tested with a dummy database.)
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by masfuerte on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:38PM (#50296462)
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.

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by Natfan on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:47PM (#50296567)
TIL about "Work Offline" in a browser! i mean it makes sense, even if it initially sounds counter-intuitive
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by QGQBGdeZREunxLe on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:02PM (#50296791)
This seems like a common design framework I am seeing on multiple AI created projects. Is it just Tailwind or is it using ShadCN?
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by adamsmark on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:31AM (#50300489)
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!

Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by borschtplease on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:29AM (#50302999)
Two ways to edit table name, and no way to edit column type on mobile
Re:Edit an SQLite database in your browser by leecommamichael on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:35PM (#50308277)
I will not be giving *you* my data, hahaha.