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We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us

story by maxcr · 2026-09-24 · 21 comments

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Visidata: A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

story by tosh · 2026-06-08 · 0 comments

…https://github.com/xi/spreadsheet/ https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im https://github.com/saulpw/visidata https://github.com/bgreenwell/xleak https://github.com/SamuelSchlesinger/tshts https://github.com/CodeOne45/vex-tui

comment by pstuart · 2026-03-20 · in VisiCalc Reconstructed

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A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

story by gslin · 2025-12-07 · 0 comments

Try asking on https://github.com/saulpw/visidata the community there can help. I am seeing this issue on a Mac with ghostty but not with wezterm, from the same binary. Ghostty shows some correct characters and some diamond-question marks,…

comment by leonim · 2025-09-25 · in Libghostty is coming

…many people requesting its removal: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001647 https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/940

comment by vaporary · 2025-05-22 · in Why does Debian change software?

…although i think i ate dinner in the middle. clearly i should lean more on chatgpt https://github.com/saulpw/visidata looks pretty cool!

comment by kragen · 2024-09-04 · in Analysing 10 years of 'who is hiring' HN data

tried this out a while back and ultimately settled on visidata instead https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by khimaros · 2024-07-04 · in SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet

…commands you can use with json. [1] Ultimate Plumber: https://github.com/akavel/up [2] Visidata: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata [3] "Intro to VisiData Tutorial": https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/ by Jeremy Singer-Vine [4] "Is…

comment by leonim · 2023-09-20 · in Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer

…my toolbox I include jq, gron, miller, VisiData, in addition to classics like sed, awk, and perl. - https://github.com/saulpw/visidata - http://visidata.org/ Also there is a great introduction: - https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/…

comment by leonim · 2023-09-07 · in jq 1.7

…you, and having put no effort in checking that, you would probably be the one found in the wrong. https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING... Also take a look at GitHub's ToS, which explicitly states that…

comment by remram · 2023-08-21 · in CLAs create different issues than making (small) open source contributions

…tools you want to solve the puzzle in your terminal. [1] https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/ [2] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by leonim · 2023-07-26 · in A command-line murder mystery (2014)

If you are a command-line user, try visidata[0] [0] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by s1291 · 2022-12-04 · in Ask HN: I'm looking for some new spreadsheet software what are people using?

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Visidata 2.9.1 Released– Excel/CSV/JSON/SQLite/Parquet in the Terminal (TUI/CLI)

story by leonim · 2022-08-12 · 4 comments

Sweet. Here’s my open issue with VisiData about this: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/1398 There’s a sample file at the end of that thread.

comment by kbd · 2022-06-25 · in Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables

Beware that visidata phones home by default: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/940

comment by jwilk · 2022-06-21 · in One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite

Would you be open to filing an issue with these details? https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/new?assignees=&lab... We do not have anyone who is deeply familiar with USV spec details on the team, and could use your help to understand…

comment by anjakefala · 2022-05-14 · in Show HN: USV = Unicode Separated Values

…query it. (I haven't tried some of the other tools that will create a sqlite database for you.) - https://github.com/saulpw/visidata - https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils

comment by leonim · 2022-03-22 · in Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON

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Visidata 2.7 Released – Excel/CSV/JSON/DB/ODT/Awk in Terminal

story by leonim · 2021-12-03 · 1 comment

…data. VisiData supports tsv, csv, sqlite, json, xlsx (Excel), hdf5, and many other formats. [1]: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by hippospark · 2021-09-11 · in Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust

Really cool, I’m a big user of SQLite. Reminds me of visidata but for SQLite: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by faizshah · 2021-09-04 · in SQLite-TUI: A TUI for viewing SQLite databases, written in Go

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Visidata 2.5 (vi for data) released with new “duo-repo” approach

story by leonim · 2021-07-13 · 1 comment

…some recent Unix shells, like nushell for working with structured data, but I haven't used them. - https://github.com/saulpw/visidata - https://github.com/johnkerl/miller - https://github.com/nushell/nushell

comment by leonim · 2021-03-12 · in What tools in your day to day give the largest productivity boost?

…data cleaning this article is talking about. However, over the past year I've found I use VisiData https://github.com/saulpw/visidata for interactive work. If I need to clean up the data first, I'll use mlr or jq as input to Visidata. If…

comment by leonim · 2020-10-18 · in How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line

…Visidata's rendering library vdtui.py could be used for these tasks. They say so in their readme https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by Riverheart · 2020-09-09 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

…focusing on your business logic rather than the scaffolding. I was pretty satisfied with it. [1] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/stable/visidata/vdtu...

comment by cthonicthulu · 2020-07-05 · in Rich Tables in the Terminal

…So where the documentation linked directly to that file, that had to be updated as well. [1] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/164 [2] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/releases/tag/v1.2.1

comment by rabidrat · 2019-10-30 · in Thank You, Guido

We would also welcome you with open arms at https://github.com/saulpw/visidata =) Send us an email, or join us on freenode, twitter, etc, if you want to help out! I would love to onboard you.

comment by anjakefala · 2019-10-29 · in Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

…For viewing csv's as tabular, paged data from the terminal, check out VisiData (python) https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by Dowwie · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

…data. Since XSV is written in Rust, it could theoretically be imported and used in VisiData. https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by Dowwie · 2018-09-09 · in XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust

…to iterate over the sets of columns to look for differences. Not sure if there's a cleaner way [0] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

comment by camel_Snake · 2018-09-08 · in Ask HN: Data diff tool for tabular data?

…- visidata: A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data https://github.com/saulpw/visidata - youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites https://github.com/rg3/youtube

comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…- visidata: A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data https://github.com/saulpw/visidata - youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites https://github.com/rg3/youtube

comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

Not integrated in vim, but try visidata ( https://github.com/saulpw/visidata ) on Sqlite. I tried after HN post last weekend and it was amazing... with Vim-like keys and interface.

comment by joehan · 2018-03-08 · in Vim-db: Modern database interface for Vim

https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/93 looks like it wasn't implemented correctly ti begin with. Sad that it wasn't fix though.

comment by derimagia · 2018-03-04 · in VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 [video]

http://visidata.org/ is the page for the tool and https://github.com/saulpw/visidata is the repo

comment by TAForObvReasons · 2018-03-04 · in VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 [video]

Reducing complexity https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/93

comment by andor · 2018-03-04 · in VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 [video]

This is the user guide: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/stable/docs/user-gui... (The link is broken in the docs/README file) This is the walkthrough on sample data: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/develop/docs/tours.r...

comment by polm23 · 2017-06-30 · in Show HN: VisiData – vi for data

…someone who knows use the Python3 modules for those databases. See the SQLite addon, for example: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/stable/visidata/addo...

comment by rabidrat · 2017-06-30 · in Show HN: VisiData – vi for data

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Show HN: VisiData – vi for data

story by rabidrat · 2017-06-29 · 23 comments

…ones Congrats on putting something out! Some competition in this space: https://exploratory.io/ , https://github.com/saulpw/visidata and http://www.delimitware.com/ (as others have mentioned).

comment by Macuyiko · 2017-05-31 · in Tad, a tabular data viewer

If you prefer working from the terminal, you should check out VisiData ( https://github.com/saulpw/visidata ). It's a curses tabular data tool that can start browsing terabyte .csv files immediately, with few dependencies and no clicking.

comment by rabidrat · 2017-05-31 · in Tad, a tabular data viewer