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Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (Neal Stephenson)

https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent.html
1•Olshansky•25s ago•0 comments

Memory Safety Is ...

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1•ingve•3m ago•0 comments

Two Americans Plead Guilty to Targeting Multiple U.S. Victims Using Ransomware

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1•croes•4m ago•0 comments

The Second Great Error Model Convergence

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Show HN: typomat – CLI typing practice that builds prompts from your own code

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When good threads go bad

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1•thunderbong•8m ago•0 comments

Proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to ISS orbit instead of polar orbit

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1•divbzero•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Block Garden - HTML Canvas WebGL sandbox and farming

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1•postpress•17m ago•0 comments

What I've Learned Writing Gleam

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My 2026 Predictions

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FE Engage Tools: Comprehensive growth simulator and damage calculator

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Eliezer s unteachable methods of sanity

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1•prakashqwerty•31m ago•0 comments

Practical std:chrono Calendar Examples (C++20)

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1•jandeboevrie•35m ago•0 comments

Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

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1•ingve•38m ago•1 comments

Just say what you need. AI finds who can help

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Show HN: Pebbles, recurring maintenance reminders to stop paying the forgot tax

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Slop slop

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2•lr0•44m ago•0 comments

Germany hunts Christmas thieves after Ocean's Eleven-style bank heist

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2•sans_souse•47m ago•0 comments

Resolution – Changing my relationship with AI

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AI Agent, AI Spy [video]

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AI data centers are forcing dirty 'peaker' power plants back into service

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Ask HN: How do you keep track of developments in the AI space?

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When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw

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Preview of 'The Joy of Cryptography'

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Trying to be the new GitHub, let me know what you think

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The Wave Function of the Universe and Inflation

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2•xngbuilds•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
105•paddy_m•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Congratulations on launching. Buckaroo looks great.
franky47•7mo ago
But does it work across data tables with 8 dimensions?
trsohmers•7mo 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.