Hacker News: NeroVanbierv

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"

NeroVanbierv — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:28:14 +0000

Marple | Software Engineer | Antwerp, Belgium | Full-time | Hybrid (3 days/week onsite)

We build cloud software for time series data from test and measurement. Customers include F1 teams, electric aircraft makers, and hypercar companies. Building high performance systems is the core of what we do: typical datasets are 200Hz, 40k channels, 30 minutes, so 14 billion data points / test.

Stack: Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Apache Iceberg, Linux, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes. None required, but we want someone who has solved genuinely hard problems in code.

Details and application: https://app.notion.com/p/getmarple/Software-engineer-Marple-...

Questions: nero@marpledata.com

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:34:45 +0000

I have a `notify` command in my `bin/` for a couple of years now. It's using an audio snippet from Her (2013) with Scarlett Johansson's voice.

Usage: `~ my-bash-command; notify`

`.wav` snippet: https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/linux-config/-/blob/mast...

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Claude Opus 4.6"

NeroVanbierv — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:54 +0000

Just did a similar experiment but outside the harry potter universe to remove the training bias. It worked well!

> ChatGPT: "Generate a two page short story like harry potter, but don´t mention anyting harry potter related. make up 4 unique spells in the story that are used"

Response see https://chatgpt.com/share/698af9cd-f628-800d-9250-b260f1478c...

> Claude: "What unique wizarding spells can you find in this story? [story]"

Response = https://i.imgur.com/Jzzs3PC.png

Google Ads Reporting with SQLite and Metabase [Guide]

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://nerovanbiervliet.be/guides/#google-ads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807914

Points: 2

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New comment by NeroVanbierv in "In Defense of Matlab Code"

NeroVanbierv — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:01:16 +0000

For me, the main appeal to MATLAB was the REPL experience, allowing me to experiment with ideas and inspect results in the UI. Python notebook have bridged the gap a bit, but always require a combination of libraries (with different docs & design choices) to write a single script.

Show HN: Marple DB – Querying billions of time series datapoints on Parquet+Pg

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:02:57 +0000

Hi HN! I’m Nero from Marple, and we build time series tooling for Aerospace & Automotive. In 2020, we launched our first product: a sort of Grafana on steroids designed for high performance analysis. After integrating with a lot of different TS databases, we kept running into their design limits when trying to deliver the best performance & UX to our users.

That’s why we are launching Marple DB today (https://www.marpledata.com/marple-db).

Marple DB transforms measurements files (CSV, MAT, HDF5, TDMS, …) into a queryable lakehouse. We designed for extreme ingestion performance. A typical customer example: one MDF file can have ~60k channels, going up to 1kHz, for 1 hour. That is a total of 100B datapoints for a single file.

To make this work, we are using a combination of Parquet files on Apache Iceberg + PostgreSQL. Parquet gives us the scalability we need, and Postgres acts as an extremely fast visualisation cache. We provide Python and MATLAB SDKs to talk to these storages in a unified way. Marple DB is available as a paid product only, but we do offer self-managed hosting.

Me and my co-founder MBaert will join the discussion below.

We are happy to hear your questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45990998

Points: 2

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New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

NeroVanbierv — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:57:36 +0000

Marple | Antwerp, Belgium | Full-time | Hybrid on-site + WFH

We are building software for handling huge time series from R&D in Aerospace & Automotive. Engineers use Marple to analyse data from exciting stuff such as: space rovers, eVTOL aircraft, electrical hyper cars, …

We are looking for a technical mind with a love for customers to become our head of customer success.

Reach out to nero (at) marpledata (dot) com

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

NeroVanbierv — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:56:55 +0000

A similar company is based in Munich: https://www.deepdrive.tech/ They have cool testing facilities applying CI/CD practices to testing hardware!

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"

NeroVanbierv — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:19:31 +0000

Marple | Customer Success Manager | ONSITE Antwerp (Belgium) | Full-time

We are building high performance time series data storage and analysis software for R&D teams in aerospace and automotive. We have customers all across Europe, with a focus on Germany, France, UK and Croatia. We are powering extremely cool R&D teams like hydrogen-based flying, new electrical engines and hyperloop systems.

We are looking for a person with a technical background but with a strong interest in customer facing efforts.

Apply at https://tally.so/r/mJQEAX, or email me at nero[at]marpledata[dot]com (CTO)

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

NeroVanbierv — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:21:47 +0000

I would be willing to pay for this if it were available for Linux! Main use case: searching through my years of screenshots

Ski Itinerary Optimization

NeroVanbierv — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:32:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexandercogneau.com/posts/ski-path-optimization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470009

Points: 2

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New comment by NeroVanbierv in "`llmhelp` bash function to assist on infra work"

NeroVanbierv — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:09:52 +0000

How it works 1. Takes the last command from your bash history 2. Reruns it to capture the output 3. Gives this info to `llm cmd` to get a suggestion 4. Show the suggestion to the user!

Basically a quicker feedback loop instead of looking up params & typos on google.

`llmhelp` bash function to assist on infra work

NeroVanbierv — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:09:51 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/linux-config/-/blob/master/bash_aliases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42813766

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Show HN: The Probability Times"

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:26:47 +0000

Indeed, I’m just piping FiveThirthyEight > facts > LLM. And what the LLM makes of that is what you’re seeing, I tried to brief it as dry as possible in the prompt!

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Show HN: The Probability Times"

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:21:03 +0000

This was one of the hard parts of making this. I think I discarded about 70% of all generated images, and I was aware that the remaining 30% was still borderline sometimes.

I my blogpost, I have a few examples of the discarded ones, including one of Harris and Obama in a similar romantic vibe: https://nerology.substack.com/p/how-i-made-the-probability-t...

I think at some point in the prompt I literally said that they were not romantically involved.

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Show HN: The Probability Times"

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:14:42 +0000

I deliberately tried to keep the content neutral. The goal of the website is translating statistics to something tangible - not adding an extra sauce of assumptions to it!

Show HN: The Probability Times

NeroVanbierv — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:05:55 +0000

Hey HN! The idea for this started when I came across the election forecast of FiveThirthyEight [1]. They show a 1000 different possible election outcomes - each one possible.

In this newspaper homepage, I try to turn these simulations into reality by feeding AI with as much detailed information about a simulation as I can (e.g. voting results per state). See source code here [2].

The whole process is explained in more depth in my blog post: https://nerology.substack.com/p/how-i-made-the-probability-t...

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

[2] https://gitlab.com/NeroVanbiervliet/the-probability-times/-/...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41981109

Points: 20

# Comments: 19

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen"

NeroVanbierv — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:10:22 +0000

I think your last paragraph sums it up pretty nicely: users need a good UX to get to these tools.

So I would love if GIMP started shipping these awesome plugins by default to pick up the pace!

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing"

NeroVanbierv — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:42:51 +0000

While writing my thesis, I made a similar thing as a chrome extension.

It kept track of all tab opens & showed it in a node structure.

Screenshot: https://github.com/Taborniki/node-search/blob/pre-alfa/demo....

New comment by NeroVanbierv in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

NeroVanbierv — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:34:24 +0000

Marple | Backend engineer (huge time series algorithms) | On-site (Antwerp, Belgium, 3/d week) | Full-time

Marple ([marpledata.com](https://www.marpledata.com/)) is a startup based in Antwerp, Belgium. We are a product-focused company, building visualisation software for large time series datasets.

Our customers are top engineering teams that develop electrical planes (Lilium), design new electrical engines (Deepdrive) and make hyperloop a real thing in Europe (Hardt).

We recently raised a new round, and are hiring: - Backend engineer (mostly python & databases) - Customer success manager

https://www.marpledata.com/careers