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Electric
Company blog · electric-sql.com/blog · on HN as thrufloprogrammingdatastartups
Electric is the company blog at electric-sql.com, writing about programming, data and startups. Since 2022, 57 different Hacker News readers have linked it 127 times, most often “Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Electric provides the data primitives and infra to build collaborative, multi-agent systems. Including Postgres Sync, Durable Streams, TanStack DB and PGlite.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps28 people · 34 mentions · first linked 2022-10-29
- Electric is a Postgres sync engine6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-10-28
- Local AI with Postgres, pgvector and llama2, inside a Tauri app3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-05
- /docs/usage/data-access/shapes2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-20
- /docs/reference/alternatives2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-01
- /docs/guides/auth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
- The Evolution of State Transfer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-23
- /docs/overview/technical-intro2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-29
- /docs/api/ddlx2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-20
- Durable Streams – Open protocol for resilient, resumeable client streams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-12
What Hacker News says?
https://electric-sql.com/ https://www.powersync.com https://watermelondb.dev https://replicache.dev
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on “I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously”Submitted Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release as a story · 310 points
HN discussionSounds like ElectricSQL (though they assume an additional central node running Postgres): https://electric-sql.com/
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on “Local First, Forever”Submitted Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps as a story · 56 points
HN discussion"syncing doesn’t work without a server" I don't think this is true, granted there are some big challenges to transfering data between devices without a central server, but there are several projects like https://dxos.org/ which use p2p, and also there's https://ditto.live/ which uses bluetooth/wifi direct for cases where all users will be in the same room or on the same local network (imagine wanting to play chess w…
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on “Local First, Forever”Submitted Developing Local-First Software as a story · 9 points
HN discussionin case anyone finds this useful, here's the slowly growing collection of links to similar tools: https://tinybase.org/ https://www.evolu.dev/ https://replicache.dev/ https://fireproof.storage/ https://vlcn.io/ https://www.instantdb.com/ https://loro.dev/ https://electric-sql.com/ https://docs.y-sweet.dev/ https://syncedstore.org/docs/ https://collabs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://remotestorage.io/ https://rxdb.…
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on “Stop syncing everything”Submitted Show HN: ElectricSQL Cloud – Postgres sync in 30 seconds as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> I'm thinking to give it a try in one of my React Native apps that face very uncertain connectivity. Some similar stuff you may want to investigate (no real opinion, just sharing since I've investigated this space a bit): - https://rxdb.info - https://www.powersync.com - https://electric-sql.com - https://dexie.org https://localfirstweb.dev is a good link too.
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on “Stop syncing everything”Submitted Electric 1.0 Released as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou can see what this means specifically from the docs: https://electric-sql.com/docs/guides/auth
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on “Sqlite3 WebAssembly”Submitted ElectricSQL · Local-First. Electrified as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAre you thinking something like https://electric-sql.com/
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on “Sqlite3 WebAssembly”Submitted Local AI with Postgres, pgvector and llama2, inside a Tauri app as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can use http://electric-sql.com to sync into PGlite in the browser from postgres. There are docs here: https://pglite.dev/docs/sync
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on “PGlite – Embeddable Postgres”Submitted Durable Streams – Open protocol for resilient, resumeable client streams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey, yup, definitely. It should be very similar to the Cordova integration. You can also follow the generic driver integration instructions [0]. Basically need to implement an adapter interface and compose the various utilities. Happy to help with this — shout on Discord [1] if you’d be interested in collaborating on it. [0]: https://electric-sql.com/docs/usage/drivers#generic [1]: https://discord.gg/B7kHGwDcbj
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on “SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS”Submitted Vibe Coding with a Database in the Sandbox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYup, it’s a very rigorous system developed over ~10 years with solid testing, benchmarking and formal proofs. However it has some known issues, such as behaviour under high load and not currently handling node failure within a DC. It’s not production ready and neither are we (we’re in developer preview mode, which is like a public alpha [0]). There are also other aspects on the Antidote roadmap such as efficiently m…
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on “SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS”Submitted Building AI apps? You need sync as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI clicked through to the technical intro, and it says you’re using AntidoteDB for the top-level replication https://electric-sql.com/docs/overview/technical-intro I happen across AntidoteDB just the other day, and my take-away was that it was still under development but not really ready for production use. Curious your opinion / experience with it?
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on “SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS”Submitted Local AI with Postgres, pgvector and llama2, inside a Tauri app as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> What I really want to see next is an eventually consistent sync system between browser and server We’ve made one: https://electric-sql.com Active-active SQLite to Postgres with transactional causal+ consistency based on CRDTs. Disclaimer: founder.
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on “SQLite in the browser with WASM/JS”Submitted AI agents as CRDT peers – building collaborative AI with Yjs as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Electric’s approach is compelling given it works with existing Postgres databases. However, one gap remains to fill, how to handle mutations? Just to note that, with TanStack DB, Electric now has first class support for local writes / write-path sync using transactional optimistic mutations: https://electric-sql.com/blog/2025/07/29/local-first-sync-wi...
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on “Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole”Submitted From science fiction to reality – you can build difficult things with LLMs now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSync Conf is next week, and this sort of issue is so part of what I hope maybe can just go away. https://syncconf.dev/ Efforts like Electric SQL to have APIs/protocols for bulk fetching all changes (to a "table") is where it's at. https://electric-sql.com/docs/api/http It's so rare for teams to do data loading well, rarer still we get effective caching, and often a products footing here only degrades with time. The…
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on “Why Nextcloud feels slow to use”Submitted The Evolution of State Transfer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPretty interesting tech. For anyone curious as to what local-first means, this is an architecture where APIs and state transfer protocols like REST / GraphQL are replaced by a local copy of the database. Their thesis is that APIs that can only be consumed over the network will inherently be slower than the super low latency of a local database. ElectricSQL handles the syncing of local databases and transparently res…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)”Submitted Electric is a Postgres sync engine as a story · 1 points
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