Hacker News: Achshar

New comment by Achshar in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

Achshar — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:53:19 +0000

I feel like I am living in a bubble, no one seems to mention Antigravity in these discussions and I have not had any issues with Ultra subscription yet. It seems to go on forever and the Interface is so much better for dev work as compared to CC. (Though admittedly my experience with cc is limited).

I strongly believe google's legs will allow it to sustain this influx of compute and still not do the rug-pull like OAI or Anthropic will be forced to do as more people come onboard the code-gen use case.

New comment by Achshar in "Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model"

Achshar — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:47:26 +0000

I also have a small dev team of 25 that wants to move to gitlab paid model but the upfront cost is too much. We need a monthly payment plan even if it costs more than annual one because I can't justify a high upfront cost to my ceo. We're rapidly expanding and expect to be 100 within 2021.

New comment by Achshar in "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it"

Achshar — Sat, 02 May 2020 16:58:03 +0000

The auto update certainly falls in the former you mean? These (older, less tech savvy) people clearly lack the imagination. That's why auto update has to be mandatory. This is again for consumer facing OS and not for the server infra.

New comment by Achshar in "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it"

Achshar — Sat, 02 May 2020 16:44:02 +0000

Disagree. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford. Customer is mostly right. Not always. Use your best judgement as a business owner. Innovate where necessary and stick to customer feedback where you think it makes sense.

New comment by Achshar in "Little known features of iTerm2"

Achshar — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:11:24 +0000

I use cmder on windows. It's pretty good you should check it out.

New comment by Achshar in "Bootstrap Treeview"

Achshar — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:18:24 +0000

No. Just no. Don't install a library and two others just to show a tree view. Make your own with whatever features you need and just those features, nothing else. Less than 200 lines of code and one day's work for a competent developer. Don't install three libraries in your webpage just to show a tree view.

New comment by Achshar in "Retiring Internet Explorer"

Achshar — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:19:04 +0000

How does once check for the presence of a VM from inside the VM? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the VM to begin with?

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:55:47 +0000

We do a bunch of stuff superset doesn't. Mostly related to filters and how they're implemented. We never mess with user's query. We only supply filters to it. Superset doesn't let users write optimized queries. We replaced superset for one of our largest clients and they are extremely happy with the move. This is pure js as well, nothing like superset tech stack wise.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 05:35:04 +0000

Out of those I only have substantial experience working with Superset. We replaced Superset for one of our biggest client a few months ago. We built a ton of features in the process. My take was that they ended up meddling with the user's query which raised issues with SQL injection and performance. For example filters only going on the end of the query.

In Kato filters can be replaced anywhere. Plus we offer a ton of integration and data manipulation features. One of the biggest things that the client really liked over Superset is the ability to set up drilldowns where when you click on a bar chart on any graph you can see further details about that bar chart in a table, or any other graph. And this drilldown can go however many levels deep. We can link different reports from entirely different datasources with drilldown. I don't think that's available in any of those mentioned above and it completely changes the user experience.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 03:32:02 +0000

We have 3 different levels of storages to avoid hitting remote. Redis cache for query, storing the results on our server and letting users edit the data as well and finally front end cache with service workers.

I think I'll start writing out the feature comparisons.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:20:58 +0000

That... would be the marketing team for you. We do spend quite a bit of our time adding stuff that I don't think I've seen anywhere else but is extremely useful for some of our biggest clients.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:54:31 +0000

Yes we probably lie close to Superset and Mode than we do to Tableau but I believe the data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those. Tableau's quite bit more mature than we are but we already support self hosted service, OAuth based auth integration, sophisticated user access level based sharing for all resources (reports, connections, users, dashboards, visualizations, product features, etc). We don't cost an arm and a leg either.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:55:17 +0000

The target market is anyone who has any kind of data. CSV, mysql, etc. Basically Tableau but much cheaper and customisable.

We already have a few small business using Kato. They seem to enjoy that.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:53:28 +0000

Looks like HN hugged it too hard. We have a limit of once every 3 seconds.

New comment by Achshar in "Google to Acquire Looker"

Achshar — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:52:38 +0000

Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our clients with a free consultation in understanding their data better. This will take you to the direct demo: https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k...

I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.

New comment by Achshar in "Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?"

Achshar — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 23:11:13 +0000

Just go the electron route and find a way to make it snappy in-spite of electron (ala vs code)

New comment by Achshar in "Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?"

Achshar — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:11:08 +0000

Vanilla javascript (Yes I said it). Build a PWA and either PHP 7 or node for backend. Anything else is for you if you already have a preference.

New comment by Achshar in "Bootstrap 3.4.0 released"

Achshar — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:48:37 +0000

None, go vanilla.

New comment by Achshar in "Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS"

Achshar — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 08:00:03 +0000

El.style.backgroundColor = Foo;

That works. Js automatically allows use by camelCase.

New comment by Achshar in "Show HN: I have been working on a modern analytics platform à la Redash but fast"

Achshar — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:21:09 +0000

Here's a demo:

https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k...

We can really use some feedback.