Observable
Dev tools
notebook environment
SHOW HN2018
654points
128comments
#13of 2,155 in 2018
Top 1%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
19 positive, 36 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 13 critical, out of 75 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Idea: 10 for, 3 againstDocs: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean reactive model that differs from Jupyter
From 1 comment
This looks fantastic. The model appears very clean and different than Jupyter in many ways: - cells can have names (it seems each cell can only export one name that is visible to…
shalabhc on HN
Good for learning programming and D3
From 2 comments
This is really cool and would be a great way to introduce programming concepts in an educational setting. Instant-feedback, inline documentation in a narrative style, and running…
ryanianian on HNThis couldn't have come at a more convenient time for me. After years of telling myself I'd learn D3 I have finally started to as well as use it at work. I was using an extension…
cpsempek on HN
Sandboxed execution via iframes
From 1 comment
Yes. We use <iframe>s with the sandbox attribute (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/iframe#attr-sandbox) to uh ... sandbox away the running JavaScript. If…
jashkenas on HN
Objections
Documentation and language identification are unclear
From 3 comments
Please, Observable, put something on the page that says what language this is! I figured this was like Colaboratory (https://colab.research.google.com) or Azure Notebooks…
web007 on HNA+. Feedback: I instantly understood that it was something similar to Jupyter, and my very first mental question was "I hope it's in JS", and this took a surprisingly long few…
trevyn on HNI got a little tripped up because I tried to assign a literal object to a name. e.g. ``` name = { foo: 1 } ``` doesn't work. I ended up doing: ``` name = { return { foo: 1} } ```…
dunham on HN
Editor lacks features such as autocomplete and cell rearranging
From 2 comments
The app itself is well done, but the editing experience is quite lacking...It's 2018 and people don't want to write html/css/js as if writing txt files. https://codesandbox.io…
octref on HNSo I finally got around to taking a good look at this last night after work. I adapted a single page d3 app that I'd written many years ago to model sous vide cooking. A few…
dunham on HN
Name clashes with RxJS observables
From 1 comment
Nice work, it looks pretty slick. You have a right to be proud of your work. But.... IMO, the project name is a disaster. If successful it will muddy the water on searches for…
daotoad on HN
Requests
Embeddable notebooks
From 1 comment
Any plans to make the notebooks embeddable in other sites?
atarian on HN
Offline or local data loading
From 2 comments
I like the idea, I've even written something similar myself, but for me a few things were not clear. How would I load in data that is stored on my harddrive (not web addressable)…
MJSplot_author on HNLegitimately very cool. As someone else mentioned I’d also really like the ability to embed these on another page, and possibly have these run locally offline. I do have a…
dyarosla on HN
Python and JavaScript combined
From 1 comment
I'd love to see a notebook environment that could somehow combine Python data science tools with DOM/JavaScript interactive visualization tools like D3. Jupyter and crew do…
bayonetz on HN
Questions
How is it funded and monetised
From 2 comments
So please let me know if this is rude, but how is this funded?
peregrine on HNGlanced over this yesterday, came back to it today when I saw it was by jashkenas, who has done some real innovative work over the years. @jashkenas -- is this your primary…
chatmasta on HN
How it differs from RunKit
From 1 comment
Great product! I've been using RunKit (https://runkit.com/home) a bit, what would you say are the key differentiators?
stevedomin on HN
Whether notebook dependencies are versioned
From 1 comment
Legitimately very cool. As someone else mentioned I’d also really like the ability to embed these on another page, and possibly have these run locally offline. I do have a…
dyarosla on HN
Alternatives named
Jupyter Notebook
From 1 comment
Just in case people were wondering, the site seems to have been overwhelmed for the past 10-15 minutes. But there's a YouTube demo of the tech…
danso on HN
RunKit
From 1 comment
Great product! I've been using RunKit (https://runkit.com/home) a bit, what would you say are the key differentiators?
stevedomin on HN
Google Colaboratory
From 1 comment
Please, Observable, put something on the page that says what language this is! I figured this was like Colaboratory (https://colab.research.google.com) or Azure Notebooks…
web007 on HN