Hacker News: kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kobiepsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 May 2026 17:24:13 +0000<![CDATA[Easy Tauri integration tests with vitest]]>Article URL: https://powersync.com/blog/tauri-integration-tests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150132

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]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:48:59 +0000https://powersync.com/blog/tauri-integration-testskobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150132https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150132<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Starship V3"]]>The outcome is guaranteed to be entertaining

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 04:06:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117681kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117681<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"]]>I spend a lot of time in wilderness areas that I don't know, and I simply pull my phone out of my pocket to see where I am. My watch measures my heart rate and that's it. While I have no doubt that pedometer++ is great and the work that went into it is impressive, I can't really see myself switching away from a big screen workflow to see exactly where I am. And I don't need to check where I am every 5 minutes. Typically only every 30 minutes or longer. Dunno, maybe I'm missing something :shrug:

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 02:41:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992794kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992794https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992794<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "GPT-5.5"]]>Balaji's "AI OVERPRODUCTION" post is the most compelling thesis that I've come across

]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:35:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884816kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884816https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884816<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"]]>Could those external APIs point to locally hosted models?

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:56:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796237kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796237<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Most people can't juggle one ball"]]>I'm currently learning the fountain pattern and it's cool to know that it should only take about a month. After that though...

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:42:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746962kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746962<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"]]>This

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:17:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459322kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459322https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459322<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Choosing a Sync Engine for Local-First in 2026"]]>No it's a full story, more akin to zero (at the highest level that is, many many differences and trade-offs).

Unfortunately I'm not qualified to answer that last question... I'm on the PowerSync team. What I can say is that we get a lot of praise from users (the ones that survive onboarding that is, lots of DX improvements we still need to make)

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:04:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317933kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317933<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Choosing a Sync Engine for Local-First in 2026"]]>Wonder why PowerSync isn't on the radar for a post like this, not evaluated or didn't make the cut for worth mentioning?

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:21:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317646kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317646https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317646<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"]]>Appreciate the noise filter.

Who would've guessed - a dip in price means more sellers than buyers :mindblown:

]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:55:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181204kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181204<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"]]>Yeah I saw something fly by on my feed that they were responsible for big btc dumps

https://x.com/1914ad/status/2026757796390449382

Haven't read it yet but seems spicey

]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:18:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180202kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180202https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180202<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"]]>nit: the Discord ID verification hasn't rolled out yet has it?

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:49:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132252kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132252https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132252<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"]]>Yeah, it doesn't seem productive to paint this as a partisan issue

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:19:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128182kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128182<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"]]>I believe phreeli's Double Blind Armadillo could make this less useful

]]>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:44:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843681kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843681<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite"]]>Hopefully anything useful and stable in turso will be ported to sqlite

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:02:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727835kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727835https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727835<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"]]>Won't it will screw up your life in the UK too?

]]>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 03:04:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562354kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562354https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46562354<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"]]>Thanks!

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:17:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557912kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557912https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557912<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Ask HN: Which is the best sync engine?"]]>I suppose the only part the OP would need to look at is "Being able to form and execute queries in my backend" for the read path, since Sync Rules / Sync Streams need to define those queries. For the write path, you should be able to re-use the existing APIs / permission middleware for the most part.

Then: "Further, I wonder how such a system would work with connection pooling, sharding, replication etc."

These are all topics on their own, but briefly: - Connection Pooling: Not supported in PowerSync Cloud atm, but supported in theory when self-hosting since pgbouncer 1.23 added WAL support. Having said that, clients connect to the PowerSync Service for sync operations, so you only need a single direct connection between the service and your postgres. - Sharding: PowerSync can be used in a sharded setup [1], with better support planned - Replication: PowerSync uses the Postgres WAL for replication [2]

[1] https://docs.powersync.com/usage/sync-rules/advanced-topics/... [2] https://docs.powersync.com/installation/database-setup#other...

]]>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:45:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518431kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518431<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"]]>PowerSync | Senior Backend Engineer and Database Expert | Full-time | Remote (opt-in regional offices)

PowerSync is a sync engine that keeps your backend database in sync with on-device SQLite. We support Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and SQL Server as source databases and have a plethora of client SDKS, many of which are integrated with popular libraries and frameworks on the client-side like TanStack DB, Drizzle, GRDB, Room, etc

If you're a database enthusiast and have a solid track record of building, deploying and maintaining backend systems on modern cloud stacks at scale, please check us out.

Detail: https://www.powersync.com/careers/senior-backend-engineer-an...

Our team is small and polyglot, but experience with TypeScript is a must.

Experience with OSS projects is also a must - either you've made significant contributions to popular devtool projects or, better yet, you have your own.

Culture: We're agile and devops purists (before those terms got coopted)

]]>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:31:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504484kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504484https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504484<![CDATA[New comment by kobieps in "Clock synchronization is a nightmare"]]>Haha fair, but in this case it was "loses the time if the power supply is interrupted"

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:05:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421987kobiepshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421987https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421987