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d1lon Edit an SQLite database in your browser

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

My father was very much the embodiment of the late 80s businessman. In the 90s he gave me his (now outdated) Dolch lunchbox. I lugged it around alright. It ran DOS and iirc was a 286 processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch

d1lon Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

The main difficulty I see in these "RETVRN TO SOVL" things is not the window-manager or desktop itself but the UI toolkits for the applications. GTK2 had so many excellent themes. Now GTK or libadwaita seem designed to resist themes and introduce constant breaking of selectors or widgets or whatnot. I believe they griefed the themers into just giving up. I have less knowledge about Qt, but I assume it's probably the better pick these days.

d1lon Postgres isn't slow, your storage is

io2 has lower latency than gp3, and better durability. We switched workloads off gp3, didn’t even need to provision crazy iops. It had a cascading effect of calming down.

d1lon Claude Haiku 5.5

It performs well in the domains we’ve implemented it. Cheap, fast, good enough, multimodal. Its a workhorse and it strikes a nice balance. I’m open to the suggestion that I’m just winging it here and happened to get lucky with a model whose training fit our usage, which is boringly unspecific.

d1lon Claude Haiku 5.5

Thx I’m digging into it but am somewhat comforted not to be alone in this. Turning up the level helps some but then we lose the speed. I don’t know that we’ll switch to 5.5 and may shop a different provider.

Anecdotally we ran sonnet 4.6 for our more complex stuff and sonnet 5 was a LOT worse. 5.5 seems to have fixed it and we cut over our customer workloads. It’s strange, really.

d1lon Claude Haiku 5.5

At work we use haiku 4.5 for a handful of latency sensitive tasks that are fairly simple. It performs well. Just started testing 5.5 as I’ve been anticipating a nice improvement since it was teased. Results so far are trash. Prompt leakage even. And it’s slower. I guess it’s cheap but I think they got the balance wrong on this.

d1lon Supabase is acquiring Turso

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_ZZhRL3YU&ra=m

54min in was what I was thinking of.

“Lots of people have tried, you’re welcome to try”

I apologize if I gave a bad gloss, but I think it was roughly in the spirit of what you said.

d1lon Supabase is acquiring Turso

I think Richard Hipp has quipped “if you think you can build a better SQLite by god you’re welcome to try!”

d1lon Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

Post is slop but I was on a call this morning with our go-getter sales guy (he’s calling himself a gtm engineer now) where he talked about alternately buying Reddit comments and going and placing flyers on car windshields himself at offices of potential customers. Our CEO was enthusiastic.

d1lon When did Google get so weird?

Don’t take AI so damn seriously (rule 63)

d1lon S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

We ran EBS for years. Finally the costs became ridiculous and we moved our entire dataset to S3. We’re saving 20k/month. There’s just no beating the price.

d1lon Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

This kinda dissonance is uncomfortable. How do people reconcile it?

d1lon Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

The AI slop is tiring man wtf. It’s so fucking lazy. The benchmark is comparing apples to oranges and doesn’t seem to be aware of it, and the way it’s written just reeks of LLM.

d1lon SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

sqlite-web, put it behind nginx with basic auth or configure a password.

d1lon Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

Exactly. Shows us what is true in the sense of the experience of being a human. It is resilient against slop because good literature has experiential depth. Maybe LLMs learn to emulate this some day, but I doubt it. Not enough money in getting it right.

d1lon I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F

Bro this is just slop.

d1lon The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?

Bro, this was the only reason I opened the comments, and I'm so happy to see someone else noticed. Even if they removed that, the utter sloppiness of the prose is unbelievable. Offensive, even.

d1lon I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

The question that resonated with me was whether open source even matters anymore.

I think it does but there are weird dynamics I don’t fully understand. I’m curious about HNs thoughts.

My theories: Centralization around key projects due to AI pointing new users towards them. (At the same time this drives up the PR deluge onto these projects. Especially from newer users already heavily using llms.)

So many low effort AI-generated open source libraries that it becomes harder to tell signal from slop. More movement to the bigger projects because they are perceived as safer bets.

d1lon The dead economy theory

There are obvious tells that this was heavily curated by AI, the very thing it criticizes in the opening paras and roasts throughout as a life-destroyer.

I don’t disagree with the premise, and I appreciate the roasts of the SV pseudophilosophers (he left out Ayn Rand tho).

d1lon Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

Oh man I wrote this exact comment before trawling far enough to find yours. It belongs at the top. That HN cannot discern the obvious is more alarming than the blatant hypocrisy of the authors. Yeesh!

d1lon Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

This post reeks of being written by Claude. Surely you all feel it, too? Are people who write these kinds of posts lacking self awareness, integrity? Does it matter?

d1lon Dumb ways for an open source project to die

15 years ago GitHub was a strong signal for like-minded devs who were of the “let me code and slide pizza under the door” variety. The signal became less meaningful over time so people started optimizing for other things…stars, whatever. Brand. I think the venn diagram of front end marketing types and the explosion of js frameworks probably was the driver for this. Now with vibed out projects everywhere it’s a real task to separate the wheat from the chaff. And I still use gh because I imagine those stars are still current in some markets but maybe I’m deluding myself.

Or, Perhaps the invention of the rocket emoji most likely was the cause of this phenomenon.

d1lon Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

I didn’t follow the article’s thesis. It felt written from a defensive crouch and claimed not to be punching down but it seemed to be radiating hostility the entire time. Something about vibe coding only replaces the lowest level of mechanical work involved in creative pursuits (including coding)?

I’m not a booster a doomer or a boomer but I think it’s a reasonable litmus test for LLM coding to implement 80% of an existing app or service. It’s not an accusation against anyone using LLM (I do) nor is it an excuse to take shots, it’s just a way of framing SotA capabilities.

Weird article, perhaps I missed something.

d1lon Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?

Didn’t know the sackler family was Chinese.

d1lon Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file

Yeah, I had the same instinct - this feels very much like a "nice idea" but the execution falls short. I mean - busily banging on sqlite like this? Shit at that point just use Redis.

d1lon I'm never buying another Kindle

What on earth is this guy saying doesn’t he own like every kindle?

d1lon ML promises to be profoundly weird

Read Moby Dick some time my friend.

d1lon The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product

100% bro

d1lon Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)

If you can't tell then I'm not sure what more needs to be said. I took a look through the commit history and it was glaringly obvious to me.

To trust something like data-storage to vibe-coded nonsense is incredibly irresponsible. To promote it is even moreso. I'm just surprised you can't tell, too.