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Four Days in Jotunheimen

https://benjaminschneider.ch/2026/09/06/four-days-in-jotunheimen.html
1•bschne•38s ago•0 comments

The Edge of the Unsayable

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1826970/the-edge-of-the-unsayable
2•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

More UC students are failing intro math courses as regents weigh reinstating SAT

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-17/uc-regents-sat-testing-admissions
1•paulpauper•4m ago•0 comments

Human brain cells transplanted into mice in 'most extensive' integration

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02912-8
1•ceejayoz•4m ago•0 comments

The Case for Reasoning Transparency

https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/the-case-for-reasoning-transparency/
1•paulpauper•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: About map enshittification: Have you noticed the maps have gotten worse?

1•kunle•5m ago•0 comments

AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/security/openai-chatgpt-lie-incident-ai-safety-b3051709.html
1•hackernj•5m ago•0 comments

Ed Sheeran Opener Aaron Rowe Pulls Out of Tour After Macklemore Drop

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/ed-sheeran-opener-aaron-rowe-pulls-out-tour-macklemore-123686...
3•abdelhousni•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Algebraic Effect System for Python

https://effecton.dev/
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Jevmlx

https://github.com/bnsd55/jevmlx
1•trollied•11m ago•0 comments

My Dumbphone Made My Life Better. It Made Everyone Else's Worse

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opinion/dumbphone-smartphone-friendship.html
3•ryzvonusef•11m ago•1 comments

hister

https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
5•bookofjoe•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Die With Me – Claude and Codex rate limits as AIM away messages

https://diewithme.co/join
3•monijz•12m ago•0 comments

Aesthetic Governance, Mega-Events and the Urban Poor

https://doingsociology.org/2026/09/17/aesthetic-governance-mega-events-and-the-urban-poor-beautif...
1•bryanrasmussen•14m ago•1 comments

The Shortcut Became the System

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3•jruohonen•14m ago•0 comments

Classic ML to Cope with Dumb LLM Judges (2025)

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/01/21/llm-judge-decision-tree
1•theanonymousone•14m ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents

https://skillsync.com
3•cat-whisperer•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paste a song and get 5 license-free cousins that sound like it

https://mockfreeli.org/
1•ianhil•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lightning strike VFX in Three.js, a step-by-step breakdown

https://threevfx.com/labs/lightning-strike/
1•chunza2542•16m ago•0 comments

AODM: AI Optimized Data Markup

https://github.com/FucaSpark/aodm
1•FucaSpark•17m ago•0 comments

There Is No AI Agent

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1•pzk1•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A toy implementation of ELF relocation weird machines

https://github.com/scriptod911/R_WEIRD
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We Need a Way to Prove Personhood Online

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2•ohjeez•18m ago•0 comments

Financial Times – The era of AI warfare has arrived

https://www.ft.com/content/686429c0-daf3-42a5-9b7c-7ff06eb291ef
1•ElFitz•18m ago•1 comments

Zuckoff app detects nearby Meta 'perv glasses'

https://nypost.com/2026/09/10/business/new-zuckoff-app-detects-nearby-meta-perv-glasses-right-to-...
4•MC995•18m ago•0 comments

From Specialist Agents to Distributed Skills over MCP

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2•JaiRathore•19m ago•0 comments

EU president: AI agents escaping their environment preview what's coming

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1•girish_r•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

12•keymasta•20m ago•9 comments

A Taxonomy of Toddler Jokes

https://lastwordonnothing.com/2026/09/16/a-taxonomy-of-toddler-jokes/
1•jruohonen•22m ago•0 comments

Jev's Architecture Unmasked

https://archerhume.com/posts/jevs-architecture-unmasked/
1•hmokiguess•23m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Buckaroo – Data table UI for Notebooks

https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
105•paddy_m•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Congratulations on launching. Buckaroo looks great.
franky47•1y ago
But does it work across data tables with 8 dimensions?
trsohmers•1y ago
Only with the oscillation overthruster flag enabled.
hodder•1y ago
Looks cool to me. I often just end out exporting and opening in excel to do this
epistasis•1y 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•1y ago
How does it compare to Data Wrangler ? I like Data Wrangler because it let us open up in a separate VS Code window.