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Re:When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:57AM (#47243652)
AI of course
Re:Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:57AM (#47034436)
https://seaquel.app/

It's the SQL client I've always wished I had. It's a desktop app, but I made it work in the browser too thanks to DuckDB Wasm.

Show HN: Interactive SQL Tutorial with a visual query builder

Hi,https://seaquel.app/learn-sql is an interactive SQL tutorial with a visual query builder.JOINs, CTEs, subqueries can be difficult to understand. With the visual builder and SQL editor side-by-side, I hope these concepts are easier to understand.FWIW, the tutorial is part of Seaquel, the SQL client I've always wished I had. I showed that to HN a few weeks ago.Curious to hear what you think of...

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Re:The Last Year of Localhost on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:26PM (#47008662)
And now there's a skill to do just that.

https://cloudrouter.dev/

Re:The Last Year of Localhost on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:45PM (#47006175)
You don't need a vendor-locked solution for AI agents to work in their own isolated environments :-).

- https://sprites.dev - https://mise.jdx.dev - https://fnox.jdx.dev

Develop a small API that accepts a prompt, starts a sprite sandbox, and then you wait for the AI agent to open a pull request.

I developed that in less than a week and now my client owns the code, can customize it to their needs, and if they want to use a different compute environment, they can with minimal code changes needed.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:49AM (#46941969)
https://seaquel.app

Month 2 of building the SQL client I've always wished I had.

One feature I'm especially proud of is the visual query builder. Drag & drop to build SQL queries.

There's also an entire SQL tutorial section for anyone who wants to learn or refresh SQL knowledge.

Re:Why We Built Our Own Background Agent on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:38AM (#46648395)
I built something similar after reading the blog post, based on sprites.dev.

A day of work to get the prototype working and a few hours the next day to allow multiple users to authenticate.

It's surprisingly simple.

Re:Why We Built Our Own Background Agent on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:35AM (#46648367)
After reading the article, I built a tool like that with sprites.dev. There's a websocket to communicate stdout and stderr to the client.

Web app submits the prompt, a sandbox starts on sprites.dev and any Claude output in the sandbox gets piped to the web app for display.

Not sure I can open source it as it's something I built for a client, but ask if you have any questions.

Re:Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:15AM (#46366492)
Yeah, I've noticed similar things with my projects. Hard to avoid these days I think.

Awesome, thanks for being an early adopter!

I got some great feedback already, so I'll continue building it out.

Roadmap: - Release binaries for Intel Mac, Linux, Windows - Add / test support for more database engines - Wrap up the LLM integration

Holidays are coming up, it may be a productive time haha

Re:Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:26AM (#46366064)
I'm sure everyone has their own tolerance for what is and isn't maintainable :). For me, not knowing what code exists, where it is, how it fits together, and stuffing it all in one main file feels like a recipe for trouble down the road. Sure, I could probably tell the LLM to split the main file into modules and ask it to refactor code etc.

However, from personal experience I'm a lot more efficient when I use LLMs to help with tedious, boilerplate-like code writing but I remain in control over structuring the project so it's maintainable by more than machines only.

I use LLMs every day to write tests for example, it's a massive time saving and I wouldn't want to write tests manually ever again.

Re:Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:22AM (#46366020)
Hey, I did not. As mcbetz mentioned, I tried vibe-coding and anything you see is generated by LLMs. He linked to my blog post where I summarized the journey.

ZenQuery looks nice, I like the focus on supporting regular files.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:46PM (#46348842)
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:10PM (#46284299)
It was frictionless to get everything up and running.

Communication between the frontend and backend is via an `invoke` method, easy as pie :).

It's not open source, but once I get the Apple developer stuff all done, I'll add an auto-update feature and open source it.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Sunday December 14, 2025 @06:35PM (#46268339)
A database desktop client, built with Tauri & SvelteKit.

"But there are many already!" I hear the crowd exclaim.

I respond, "Yes, but..."

It's really something I want for myself. Lightweight, as fast as humanly possible, extensible via plugins (in fact the entire app is mostly plugins, with a small core to glue it together), and a tiny bit of LLM (call it AI if you wish) integration to ask questions about the database or generate/review queries.

Re:Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI? on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:26AM (#46201866)
That's how I feel about most visual database clients I've used over the years...

It's something I hear from many others too, hence my interest in trying to build an incredibly fast and lightweight product.

Re:Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI? on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:24AM (#46201864)
Thanks for your insights. What made you stop working on it?

The insomnia creator also has a Tauri http client now called Yaak(.app). A huge inspiration to work on my database client.

Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI?

I'm considering to develop a database GUI based on either Tauri & Svelte or gpui.rs.Why? For fun, but if it turns out to become a lifestyle business, even better :-).No seriously, why? The database GUIs I know are either slow, pricey, or both. They also have so many features, it impacts the user experience.I want a basic tool where I can view databases, tables, edit data. I also want to...

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Re:Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library) on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:16PM (#46188234)
Thank you, I appreciate the in-depth opinion! I think Tauri with SvelteKit is going to be my first prototype, likely followed by gpui because I'm impressed by Zed which is built with gpui.

Also, TIL about PopOS, thank you!

Re:Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library) on Sunday December 07, 2025 @07:38PM (#46186995)
I recently started to get an interest in writing a GUI with Rust. In particular, a database GUI.

Initially, I thought Tauri with Svelte. Then I learned about gpui (https://www.gpui.rs/) and I'm intrigued.

TIL about iced, which seems to have been around for a while.

Before I embark on building a prototype UI for my app with all three libraries, does anyone have hands-on experience they can share?

Re:Electron vs. Tauri on Friday November 28, 2025 @11:51PM (#46085245)
My personal favorite to keep an eye on is https://www.gpui.rs/.

It's what Zed(.dev) is based on. While not quite ready for prime time from what I understand, if Zed is the reference implementation, I'm sold!

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Sunday November 09, 2025 @09:39PM (#45871738)
I'm working on https://pipestack.dev, a workflow automation platform where you bring your own code - as Wasm Components.

Think n8n, but you bring your own code and optionally even your hardware to execute pipelines.

Re:Ask HN: What kind of TUI would you use if it existed? on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:49PM (#45838798)
Ooooh... you just gave me an idea :). A TUI for http://todotxt.org/.

That way, there's no lock-in and people can easily use their existing todo.txt to try the TUI.

I'm looking for a TUI idea to explore Ratatui, so maybe this is it right here!

Re:Ask HN: What kind of TUI would you use if it existed? on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:45PM (#45838763)
My bad, I'm looking for TUI ideas to build to learn Ratatui :).

Is there anything you'd like to do in a TUI but can't find a TUI that does it?

I'm a long-time SvelteFlow user and it has never disappointed so far :).

Lots of updates this year to reach parity with React Flow.

Re:Performance-focused forks of styled-components on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:26AM (#45219583)
I came to post the same comment :-)!
I ended up reading the entire article and what SvelteKit does isn't exactly the same, you can't edit the site.

The use case for a single html file for me is to provide a local dev experience for my customers that mirrors production.

`my-cli dev` spins up the services needed for my platform, including the SvelteKit web app.

Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:34PM (#44966140)
You can opt out of AI features in Zed [0].

[0] https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

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