Hacker News: mathiasrw

New comment by mathiasrw in "I fixed 109 years of open issues with 5 hours of guiding GitHub Copilot"

mathiasrw — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:59:10 +0000

A while ago GitHub informed me that they would sponsor Copilot for our open source project AlaSQL (a JavaScript SQL database for the client).

I had never really thought much about it. I actively try to ignore the industry push to shove AI into everything. But a few days ago, I somewhat accidentally assigned Copilot to an issue. To my surprise, a nice PR was created shortly after with a spot-on solution and a test file. A one-shot fix!

Impressed, I went to our oldest issue (11 years old). Click. Assigned. Let's see.

After 48 minutes, I was asked to review the PR. It had one-shot fixed an age-old problem with `ORDER BY` across 3+ `UNION` clauses. This involved updating the grammar for the lexical analysis and inserting the right controls to ensure the ordering executed at the right time. Nice.

I immediately went slightly rampant on old (and well-described) issues, and after a combined engagement of 5 hours across 2 days "herding" the AI, the next version of the AlaSQL library was released - fixing issues with a combined age of 109 years, 1 month, and 28 days.

Not bad for guiding an agent for a few hours.

I fixed 109 years of open issues with 5 hours of guiding GitHub Copilot

mathiasrw — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:59:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AlaSQL/alasql/releases/tag/v4.10.1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994014

Points: 5

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New comment by mathiasrw in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

mathiasrw — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:56:29 +0000

Just use sheets. Like powder, but without inhaling the dust/smell and the slight mess. I like the ones from Lucent Globe.

New comment by mathiasrw in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

mathiasrw — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:06:50 +0000

Just to confirm: did they just release a model with the exact same name as the previous one?

New comment by mathiasrw in "Bop Spotter"

mathiasrw — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:29:55 +0000

I LOVE IT!

I would love to see a "Playlist per day" so you can listen to the vibe of the city on a particular day and not just one song at a time.

And really nice working making a visual attitude that burns into you memory...

New comment by mathiasrw in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

mathiasrw — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 03:19:23 +0000

Can we get this for yellow and green?

New comment by mathiasrw in "Hyperscript"

mathiasrw — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:10:46 +0000

Can we please call this "htmx 3"? its so much more clear and the branding around htmx is great.

New comment by mathiasrw in "Hyperscript"

mathiasrw — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:48:46 +0000

I like it.

Do we have some htmx flavor ability to fetching raw html string and update elements with it?

New comment by mathiasrw in "I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)"

mathiasrw — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:47:05 +0000

Sounds like the real complaint here is not about Jira but about people using Jira wrong, because they dont understand how you facilitate a productive environment for the lifecycle of the delivery across product, design, QA and developers of different stacks.

New comment by mathiasrw in "CommonJS is hurting JavaScript"

mathiasrw — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:37:10 +0000

Im about to make the transition for alasql. Any chance you can share a link to a repo you feel did this well?

New comment by mathiasrw in "Postgres WASM"

mathiasrw — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 02:41:12 +0000

WASI will blow your mind

New comment by mathiasrw in "Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar"

mathiasrw — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:42:00 +0000

Just gonna leave this here: https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2022/03/28/13-months-the-...

New comment by mathiasrw in "Making Code Faster"

mathiasrw — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:19:26 +0000

You cant make code faster. You can only make it do less things.

New comment by mathiasrw in "Cloudflare Workers for Platforms: Make Your Own Product Programmable"

mathiasrw — Tue, 10 May 2022 13:17:03 +0000

Can someone explain this to me as if I was 5 years old?

Is it a way to activate and orchestrate workers based on a pub/sub message structure?

New comment by mathiasrw in "Occlusion Grotesque Experimental Typeface (2021)"

mathiasrw — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:13:33 +0000

I love this project! But I feel like the attention to details in planning the project is not matched with the attention to details when it comes to capturing the essence / energy of the font as the tree progressed. Some examples are "a" for year 3 and "h" for both year 2 and 3 where the font is lacking a lot of the expression that the designer tree is providing.

But very interesting. Thank you for creating this.

New comment by mathiasrw in "9/11 first responders at higher risk for blood cancer-associated mutations"

mathiasrw — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:58:57 +0000

When the constriction of the twin towers started in 1968 asbestos was used for insulation.

In April 1970, the New York City Department of Air Resources established asbestos spray insulation regulations. As a result, the Department ordered contractors to stop the use of asbestos in the World Trade Center. The upper levels of the north tower and the entirety of the south tower contained asbestos alternatives.

It's estimated that the north tower contained 300 – 400 tons of asbestos.

New comment by mathiasrw in "9/11 first responders at higher risk for blood cancer-associated mutations"

mathiasrw — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 01:27:28 +0000

The towers had a high amount of asbestos. I am not surprised that we see the effects so many years later.

New comment by mathiasrw in "I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012"

mathiasrw — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:32:11 +0000

I really miss my x41

New comment by mathiasrw in "Ask HN: Do we need JavaScript web frameworks?"

mathiasrw — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:12:20 +0000

If you don't pick a framework, you will end up building one yourself.

New comment by mathiasrw in "Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers"

mathiasrw — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:09:36 +0000

This this is awesome. Thank you for creating Blueboat.

Have you had any thoughts about how much rebuild it would take to support Deno javascript?