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The CSV magician

19 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 10 stories, 9 comments · first 2024-05-31 · latest 2026-06-28

Mentions per year 19 mentions · busiest year 2025 (8)
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  1. ▲ 6
    ASCII Art Data Visualization in the Terminal like it's still 1970
    story by gazoduke · 2026-06-28 · 1 comment
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    Data Visualization from the Comfort of Your Terminal
    story by Yomguithereal · 2026-06-17 · 0 comments
  3. I've been using https://github.com/medialab/xan for anything csv. It's the best tool there is for reading and analyzing csv files, but not for writing them. Something like cell-sheet-tui would fit my workflow very well, since I am using…
    comment by rpassos · 2026-04-27 · in Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
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    New technique to easily partition CSV files for parallel processing
    story by Yomguithereal · 2026-02-25 · 6 comments
  5. …within sorted CSV data! [2] [1]: https://docs.rs/simd-csv/latest/simd_csv/struct.Seeker.html [2]: https://github.com/medialab/xan/
    comment by Yomguithereal · 2026-02-24 · in Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself
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    Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself
    story by fanf2 · 2026-02-24 · 1 comment
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    Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself
    story by todsacerdoti · 2026-02-23 · 0 comments
  8. xan, the CSV magician https://github.com/medialab/xan
    comment by barmanoo · 2026-02-05 · in I made CSV viewing simple and fast
  9. …put forth in the blog post But I tried the group's "CSV magician" program and was not impressed https://github.com/medialab/xan The table output seems very similar to sqlite3 It's a 20MB musl dynamically-linked executable (cf. 1.7MB…
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2025-09-10 · in A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
  10. Previously: A love letter to the CSV format ( https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER... ) 708 points | 5 months ago | 698 comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484382 )
    comment by ayhanfuat · 2025-09-10 · in A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
  11. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494894 discusses xan https://github.com/medialab/xan readme says this tool is originally a fork of BurntSushi's xsv, but has been nearly entirely rewritten at that point, to fit SciencesPo's médialab…
    comment by homarp · 2025-03-30 · in fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
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    XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal
    story by Yomguithereal · 2025-03-27 · 28 comments
  13. The post does mention it, as a positive: https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER...
    comment by jimbokun · 2025-03-27 · in A love letter to the CSV format
  14. …xan has a parallel command able to perform a wide variety of map-reduce tasks on splitted files. https://github.com/medialab/xan
    comment by Yomguithereal · 2025-03-26 · in A love letter to the CSV format
  15. I would add xan to this list: https://github.com/medialab/xan But of course, I am partial ;)
    comment by Yomguithereal · 2025-03-26 · in A love letter to the CSV format
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    A love letter to the CSV format
    story by Yomguithereal · 2025-03-26 · 689 comments
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    Xan, the CSV Magician
    story by Yomguithereal · 2024-12-11 · 0 comments
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    Xan, the CSV Magician
    story by nicopappl · 2024-08-26 · 0 comments
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    xan, the CSV magician
    story by bpierre · 2024-05-31 · 0 comments