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Families reeling, businesses suffering after ICE raided Ventura cannabis farms

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-24/families-reeling-six-months-after-ice-raid-ca...
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

US DOJ releases partially redacted documents on Operation Absolute Resolve

https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1423306/dl
1•Agreed3750•4m ago•0 comments

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon by Kenneth Field

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9359a0790ffe4bc09edd6b9c17a43b90
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

A $2,500 full body scan said he was healthy. Then he had a catastrophic stroke

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/01/13/prenuvo-lawsuit-full-body-scan/
1•ThePhantom•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A slsqp solver WASM demo

https://slsqp-wasm.shuo23333.app/
1•shuoli84•13m ago•0 comments

Minimal Claude Code in 250 lines

https://github.com/1rgs/nanocode
1•yuedongze•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Axis – A systems programming language with Python syntax

https://github.com/AGDNoob/axis-lang
1•AGDNoob•14m ago•1 comments

Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine

https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
4•spenvo•14m ago•1 comments

The Mole: Infiltrating North Korea [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgq-_VNptSc
2•matousd•17m ago•0 comments

South Korea seeks death penalty for ex-president Yoon over martial law bid

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/south-korea-special-prosecutor-seek-death-penalty-former-presiden...
1•nodesocket•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – Chladni Plate Simulator

https://www.cymatica.app/
1•_august•22m ago•0 comments

US approves sale of Nvidia's advanced H200 chips to China

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4erx1n04lo
2•tlyleung•26m ago•0 comments

QuickSend – Share Files Between Devices Without the Friction

http://quicksend.chat
1•foodhome•29m ago•1 comments

Wrapping my head around Gas Town

https://justin.abrah.ms/blog/2026-01-05-wrapping-my-head-around-gas-town.html
2•gmays•34m ago•1 comments

Bottom-up programming as the root of LLM dev skepticism

https://www.klio.org/theory-of-llm-dev-skepticism/
2•mkozlows•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Neutriva – A personalized health and wellness tracking assistant

https://neutriva.com/en/wellness-assistant
1•NoraWW•37m ago•0 comments

Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/health/vaccine-schedule-children-kennedy.html
3•doener•46m ago•0 comments

Terry Tao: "LLMs Are Simpler Than You Think – The Real Mystery Is Why They Work" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpCHo5v-Gc
8•gmays•46m ago•0 comments

Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofit Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/technology/iran-starlink-elon-musk.html
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One Simple Arrow Changed Automobiles Forever [video]

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Qualcomm's RISC-Ventana Fusion

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/qualcomms-risc-ventana-fusion
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What's Ahead: Alien Processes, Domains, and Data Models

https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/whats-ahead-alien-processes-domains
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Why IRC is better than Real Life

https://everything2.com/node/e2node/Why%20IRC%20is%20better%20than%20Real%20Life
2•jskherman•54m ago•0 comments

A new generation of Chinese companies is expanding around the world

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/13/a-new-generation-of-chinese-companies-is-expanding-...
3•petethomas•56m ago•0 comments

Southern New Zealand hospitals experienced major IT outage

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3•billybuckwheat•56m ago•0 comments

What will enshittification of LLMs look like?

1•scoofy•56m ago•3 comments

An Updated Dentist Office Software Story

https://avc.xyz/an-updated-dentist-office-software-story
1•turadg•58m ago•1 comments

BioNTech Provides Strategic Business Update and Outlines 2026

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-provides-strategic-busi...
2•doener•1h ago•0 comments

How to Store the Web in S3

https://exa.ai/blog/exa-d
1•willbryk•1h ago•1 comments

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxie-marlinspike-wants-to-do-for-ai-what...
5•abolishme•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
105•paddy_m•8mo ago
Buckaroo is my open source project. It is a dataframe viewer that has the basic features we expect in a modern table - scroll, search, sort. In addition there are summary stats, and histograms available. Buckaroo support Pandas and Polars dataframes and works on Jupter, Marimo, VSCode and Google Colab notebooks. All of this is extensible. I think of Buckaroo as a framework for building table UIs, and an initial data exploration app built on top of that framework. AG-Grid is used for the core table display and it has been customized with a declarative layer so you don't have to pass JS functions around for customizations. On the python side there is a framework for adding summary stats (with a small DAG for dependencies). There is also an entire Low Code UI for point and click selection of common commands (drop column). The lowcode UI also generates a python function that accomplishes the same tasks. This is built on top of JLisp - a small lisp interpreter that reads JSON flavored lisp.

Auto Cleaning looks at columns and heuristically suggests common cleaning operations. The operations are added to the lowcode UI where they can be edited. Multiple cleaning strategies can be applied and the best fit retained. Autocleaning without a UI and multiple strategies is very opaque. Since this runs heuristically (not with an LLM), it’s fast and data stays local.

I'm eager to hear feedback from data scientists and other users of dataframes/notebooks.

Comments

ZeroCool2u•8mo ago
This looks really cool. I will say my default solution for this, and the default across my org, is Data Wrangler in VS Code[1]. My only wish list item is if the low code solution wrote polars instead of pandas. Any thoughts on how hard that might be to accomplish?

1: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-tools...

paddy_m•8mo ago
Thank you.

The Buckaroo lowcode UI is capable of working with Polars, but I don't currently have any commands plumbed in. I will work on that.

I'm aware of Data Wrangler and they did nice work, but it's closed source and from what I can tell non-extensible. What features do you like in Data Wrangler, what do you wish it did differently?

paddy_m•8mo ago
I made a Marimo WASM example that you can play with in your browser [1]

I need to make some updates to the polars functionality, I just completed some extensive refactorings of the Lowcode UI focussed on pandas, time to clean that up for polars too.

Also the python codegen for polars is non-idiomatic with multiple re-assignments to a dataframe, vs one big select block. I have some ideas for how to fix that, but they'll take time.

https://marimo.io/p/@paddy-mullen/notebook-sctuj8

RyanHamilton•8mo ago
Congratulations on launching. Buckaroo looks great.
franky47•8mo ago
But does it work across data tables with 8 dimensions?
trsohmers•8mo ago
Only with the oscillation overthruster flag enabled.
hodder•7mo ago
Looks cool to me. I often just end out exporting and opening in excel to do this
epistasis•7mo ago
This is really great, I'm looking forward to playing with it.

Currently I use a mix of quak (preferred) and itable (if starting fom a colab notebook). It will be interesting to compare for my use cases, which most consist of checking for the distribution of data in a new file, or verifying that a transform I did resulted in the right sort of stuff.

mathisd•7mo ago
How does it compare to Data Wrangler ? I like Data Wrangler because it let us open up in a separate VS Code window.