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simonw / datasette-lite

datasette-lite

Datasette running in your browser using WebAssembly and Pyodide

8Distinct people
18Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
413GitHub stars
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What it is

Datasette running in your browser using WebAssembly and Pyodide

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-05-04 20:07:21 UTC to 2025-12-26 18:24:34 UTC.

02462022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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This seems to be about hosting an Sqlite database on a static website like GitHub Pages - this can be a great plan, there is also Datasette in a browser now: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite But that's different from how you collect the data in a git repository in the first place - or are you suggesting just putting a Sqlite file in a git repository? If so I can think of one big reason against that.
In Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
TIL that Apache Echarts can generate WAI-ARIA accessible textual descriptions for charts and supports WebGL. https://echarts.apache.org/en/feature.html#aria apache/echarts: https://github.com/apache/echarts Marimo notebook has functionality like rxpy and ipyflow to auto-reexecute input cell dependencies fwiu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404681#41406570 .. https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo/releases/tag/0.8.4 : > With this release, it's now possible to create standalone notebook files that have package requirements embedded in them as a comment, using PEP 723's inline metadata marimo-team/marimo: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo ipywidgets is another way to build event-based UIs in otherwise Reproducible notebooks. datasette-lite doesn't yet work with jupyterlite and emscripten-forge yet FWIU; but does build SQLite in W
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ASM with pyodide. https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite pygwalker: https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35895899 How do you record manual interactions with ui controls and spreadsheet grids to code for reproducibility? > "Generate code from GUI interactions; State restoration & Undo" https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker/issues/90 > The Scientific Method is testing, so testing (tests, assertions, fixtures) should be core to any scientific workflow system. ipytest has a %%ipytest cell magic to run functions that start with test_ and subclasses of unittest.TestCase with the pytest test runner. https://github.com/chmp/ipytest How can test functions with assertions be written with Probly?
In Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser

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