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New comment by amirathi in "Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks"

amirathi — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:17:16 +0000

Really cool. If somebody doesn't want to adopt a new platform, take a look at open source Jupyter MCP Server[1]. Once integrated with Claude, it can execute code on the live notebook kernel.

I just let Claude write notebooks, run top to bottom, debug & fix errors & only ping me when everything is working.

[1] https://github.com/datalayer/jupyter-mcp-server

Claude Code with Jupyter Notebooks via MCP

amirathi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:38:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reviewnb.com/claude-code-with-jupyter-notebooks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924705

Points: 4

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Claude Code + Jupyter Notebooks Finally Work Well

amirathi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reviewnb.com/claude-code-with-jupyter-notebooks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850641

Points: 2

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Why Sourcegraph and Amp Are Becoming Independent Companies

amirathi — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:49:14 +0000

Article URL: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/why-sourcegraph-and-amp-are-becoming-independent-companies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46156937

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amirathi in "iPhone dumbphone"

amirathi — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:20:20 +0000

Just uninstalling the endless scrolling apps (Twitter, Reddit, Instagram etc.) was enough for me.

New comment by amirathi in "Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run"

amirathi — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:02:31 +0000

I took a stab at this ~7 years ago - https://nurtch.com/

The idea has a lot of merit. We even gave a talk about it in JupyterCon Paris 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUYY2kHrTzs

When you have executable code in the documentation, folks want to follow PR-review workflow with the docs as well - which is a bit more team investment than editing a wiki.

Good luck!

Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer

amirathi — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:58:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3562701/chinese-researchers-break-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41846492

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model

amirathi — Thu, 23 May 2024 07:34:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/mapping-mind-language-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40451645

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by amirathi in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

amirathi — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 04:11:58 +0000

When you raise $$$ - the nice little API client needs to become "Enterprise API Platform"

New comment by amirathi in "CT scans of coffee-making equipment"

amirathi — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:01:44 +0000

Is anyone here worried about pouring hot water into Aeropress plastic? I know it's polypropylene, which is BPA-Free but could there be things that we haven't properly researched yet?

New comment by amirathi in "The Jupyter+Git problem is now solved (2022)"

amirathi — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:31:19 +0000

We all know .ipynb JSON format is not a great fit for Git. The Jupyter ecosystem has come a long way in the last few years. Solving this really comes down to a few tools -

- JupyterLab Git Extension[1] for local diffs (pre-commit diffs)

- nbdime[2] / nbdev[3] for resolving .ipynb git merge conflicts

- GitHub PR code reviews with ReviewNB[4]

- Alternatively, if you don't care about cell outputs then Jupytext[5] to sync .ipynb JSON to markdown

Disclaimer: I built ReviewNB. It's a completely bootstrapped business, 5 years in the making and now used by leading DS teams at Meta, AWS, NASA JPL, AirBnB, Lyft, Affirm, AMD, Microsoft & more[6] for Jupyter Notebook code reviews on GitHub / Bitbucket.

[1] https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git

[2] https://nbdime.readthedocs.io

[3] https://nbdev.fast.ai

[4] https://www.reviewnb.com

[5] https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext

[6] https://www.reviewnb.com/#customers

Git and Jupyter Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide

amirathi — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:44:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reviewnb.com/git-jupyter-notebook-ultimate-guide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36538141

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by amirathi in "GitHub Copilot is generally available"

amirathi — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:02:39 +0000

I'm just happy that Microsoft is finally charging directly for a developer product!

When they keep giving out freebies (VSCode, npm etc.), I never know which direction the product is going to evolve (e.g. unnecessarily tight integration with Azure).

With this, there's at least direct alignment between end user & the product.

New comment by amirathi in "Ask HN: Are there any good Diff tools for Jupyter Notebooks?"

amirathi — Mon, 30 May 2022 04:20:20 +0000

Here are tools people commonly use for notebook version control with git -

[1] nbdime to view local diffs & merge changes

[2] jupytext for 2-way sync between notebook & markdown/scripts

[3] JupyterLab git extension for git clone / pull / push & see visual diffs

[4] Jupyerlab gitplus to create GitHub PRs from JupyterLab

[5] ReviewNB for reviewing & diff'ing notebook PRs / Commits on GitHub

Disclaimer: While I’m the author of last two (GitPlus & ReviewNB), I’ve represented the overall landscape in an unbiased way. I've been working on this specific problem for 3+ years & regularly talk to teams who use GitHub with notebooks.

[1] https://nbdime.readthedocs.io

[2] https://jupytext.readthedocs.io

[3] https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git

[4] https://github.com/ReviewNB/jupyterlab-gitplus

[5] https://www.reviewnb.com/

New comment by amirathi in "Donald Knuth was framed (2020)"

amirathi — Sun, 08 May 2022 08:03:16 +0000

Jupyter Notebook is THE modern literate programming environment.

It's a shame that it's only primarily used for Data Science experimentation & teaching.

New comment by amirathi in "IPython 8.0"

amirathi — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:54:39 +0000

The problems you mention are solved by auxiliary tools in the notebook ecosystem.

- Look at nbdime & ReviewNB for git diffs

- Checkout treon & nbdev for testing

- See jupytext for keeping .py & .ipynb in sync

I agree it's a bit of a pain to install & configure a bunch of auxiliary tools but once set up properly they do solve most of the issues in the Jupyter notebook workflow.

Disclaimer: I built ReviewNB & Treon

New comment by amirathi in "Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid"

amirathi — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 11:53:20 +0000

This is great. Other comments here are underestimating the power of a group. An average bounty on an issue might just be between $10-$100 but there can easily be 50 people putting up a bounty for a popular issue (have you seen issues with hundreads of upvotes and are still open for years). If we start seeing (collective) bounty on an issue in the range of a few thousand $$ then it's decent money for maintainers or anyone else who's motivated enough.

My guess is this is eventually going to be built into GitHub (via acquisition or otherwise).

New comment by amirathi in "Best Jupyter Notebook for Enterprise"

amirathi — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:56:32 +0000

Why not just use JupyterLab with GitHub? You get all those enterprise features with GitHub. And you can augment the shortcomings with auxilary tools. E.g. JupyterLab git extension & ReviewNB for notebook version control.

Disclaimer: I built ReviewNB.

New comment by amirathi in "Ask HN: Would you want a distributed Postgres that runs on Spot Instances?"

amirathi — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:17:36 +0000

(for regular workloads) cost of maintaining such a DB >> cost of RDS

It's a very interesting problem from a technical standpoint nonetheless.

New comment by amirathi in "Launch HN: Deepnote (YC S19) – A better data science notebook"

amirathi — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:48:17 +0000

> Notebooks as we know them today have many pain points (versioning, reproducibility, collaboration)

Absolutely. We're solving a small part of this by making notebooks play nicely with GitHub (https://reviewnb.com). Code reviews & collaboration for Jupyter Notebooks, essentially.

Happy to see more products taking a stab at this problem. I'd be curious to know how you implement version control (git or something else) & what kind of experiences does that translate to for the user. Congrats on the launch!