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Evidence
Company blog · evidence.dev/blogdataprogramming
Evidence is the company blog at evidence.dev, writing about data and programming. Since 2021, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Evidence – Business Intelligence for Modern Data Teams”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Evidence's docs and blog posts about its open-source framework for building data sites from SQL and Markdown, including its Universal SQL architecture and its choice of ECharts for charting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Evidence is an open source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools. Build polished data products with just SQL and markdown.
Most-linked posts?
- Evidence – Business Intelligence for Modern Data Teams10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
- evidence.dev – a web framework for data analysts6 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2022-12-24
- Building the universal front-end for data4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-02-02
- Embedded Analytics as Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
What Hacker News says?
We recently changed our architecture to include interactivity without having to pre-render all combinations. Pages are still pre-rendered with their initial content, but each Evidence app now ships with filter components and an in-browser DuckDB instance so you can build interactive apps. We call this Universal SQL - if you're interested, we wrote up our rationale for doing this here: https://evidence.dev/blog/why-w…
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted Show HN: SQL in Markdown for Reports and Analysis as a story · 19 points
HN discussionFull fledged BI tools like Superset and Metabase are amazing for their intended use cases. But they may be an overkill if your primary use case is to infrequently build semi-interactive reports for non-technical end-users and your use cases are are mostly covered by standard graphs & tables. Esp. so if you are familiar with SQL and have access to the underlying data source. Two nifty utilities I have found to be ver…
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted How much should you be earning as a Data Engineer? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe use ECharts in our open source BI tool (Evidence) and it's a great library. Has helped us build a declarative syntax for viz which can be version controlled ( https://evidence.dev ) Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 (97 comments)
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on “Apache Superset”Submitted Evidence Studio - AI-powered analytics IDE as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThanks for the kind words. That’s good feedback on the docs. The tool has evolved pretty dramatically from where it started and we should revisit those diagrams. Evidence is a static site generator. Queries against your sources happen at build time and save to parquet. Queries against the built in DuckDB web assembly instance happen at runtime. Sources (snowflake, Postgres, csv files etc.) run at build time. Pages i…
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on “Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps”Submitted Embedded Analytics as Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe new direction seems very similar to what evidence has been doing for a while https://evidence.dev
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on “Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps”Submitted Building the universal front-end for data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDuckDB is really having a moment The ecosystem is very active, and they have recently opened up "community extensions" to bring your own functions, data types and connections. A barrier at the moment is that extensions are written in C++, though this limitation should be removed soon. I've been building a lot on top of DuckDB, two of the projects I'm working on are linked in the article: - Evidence ( https://evidenc…
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on “7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025”Submitted Evidence.dev – OSS Business Intelligence as Code launches cloud, raises funding as a story · 4 points
HN discussionReminds me of https://evidence.dev/
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on “Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel”Submitted Evidence – Business Intelligence for Modern Data Teams as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://opensource.com/article/20/4/plot-data-python gives some common options. What kind of plots are you trying to achieve? Interactive? Jupyter notebooks? Reporting? SVG or HTML output? You might also like to look at things like https://evidence.dev
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on “D3 in Depth”Submitted Most Data Scientists are Underpaid as a story · 4 points
HN discussionEvidence | YC S21 | Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | Remote Open source web framework for data teams. https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/evidence https://www.evidence.dev
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Submitted BI-as-Code Tooling: A Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhow does this compare w/ evidence ( https://evidence.dev/ )?
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on “Charts built for Chat”Submitted Automating Content Prep for Meetings about Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'll ask another of the "how is this different" questions - how is this different from https://evidence.dev/ ? Quary seems a little like dbt + Evidence from what I can see.
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on “Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers”Submitted Embedded Analytics as Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWas very bummed out when Heroku started charging for Hobby Tier as I had to sunset a few of my hobby apps - Heroku was my first experience deploying a website: `git push heroku master` - Dataclips was my first experience writing SQL Writing code was markedly better than building dashboards in Tableau, which inspired Evidence ( https://evidence.dev ) - an open-source SSG for creating data websites using SQL and markd…
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on “Blazer: Business intelligence made simple”Submitted MotherDuck Connector for Evidence.dev as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are so many! Rill Data - https://www.rilldata.com Summer - https://summer.io Hex - https://hex.tech Evidence - https://evidence.dev
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on “Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB”Submitted Universal SQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am working on a SQL-in-markdown reporting tool called evidence. It’s feels like a markdown doc that runs SQL. https://evidence.dev/
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on “Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable notebook editor”Submitted evidence.dev – a web framework for data analysts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPretty nice animation of the input & output: https://evidence.dev/
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on “Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project”Submitted Business Intelligence as Code as a story · 1 points
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