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Hex
Company blog · hex.tech/blog · on HN as nicolaskruchtendataaistartups
Hex is the company blog at hex.tech, writing about data, ai and startups. Since 2020, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 93 times, most often “A Pragmatic Approach to Live Collaboration”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rethinking BI Conversational analytics and Context management for the agentic era.
Most-linked posts?
- A Pragmatic Approach to Live Collaboration6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
- Hex – Magical tools for working with data together6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-05-10
- Show HN: HEX – The Data Workspace for Teams5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-05-20
- A Pragmatic Approach to Live Collaboration2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-19
- Hex Magic: AI-powered tools for humans doing things with data2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-05
- What coal and Jevons’ paradox tell us about AI and data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-11
- Long Live Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-19
- Making AI charts go brrrr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-21
- Bitter lessons building AI products2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-09
- Understanding dbt's acquisition of Transform Data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-08
What Hacker News says?
I actually just wrote about doing this with our code notebook product just the other day https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora...
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on “CRDTs are the future”Submitted Hex Raises $100M as a story · 85 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy this piece, covers a few of the tradeoffs you mention https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora...
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on “CRDTs are the future”Submitted How a PhD astrophysicist thinks about data as a story · 81 points
HN discussionInteresting piece from last week comparing OT, CRDT, and Figma's hybrid approach (good explainers of each too): https://hex.tech/blog/a-pragmatic-approach-to-live-collabora...
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on “CRDTs are the future”Submitted Reactive, DAG-based notebooks in Hex 2.0 as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThis looks very similar to https://hex.tech/ . Is there a UI library that is used by the two?
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on “The DuckDB Local UI”Submitted Bitter lessons building AI products as a story · 32 points
HN discussionHex | (Senior) Software Engineer | Remote or SF | Full-time | https://hex.tech/jobs/software-engineer Hex is building a next-generation data analysis platform, combining the best of code notebooks, BI, and collaboration tools. Our product lets users connect to data, build analyses, collaborate with their team, and turn their work into interactive data apps anyone can use. We're looking for another Software Engineer…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Hex: Collaborative Notebooks and Data Apps as a story · 29 points
HN discussionHex | Visualization Engineer | Remote - US | https://hex.tech/ Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility. We are a tight-knit crew of engineers…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted I'm sorry, but those are vanity evals as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHex | Full Stack Engineer - Visualization | Remote - US | https://hex.tech/ Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility. We are a tight-knit crew…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Making AI charts go brrrr as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHex ( https://hex.tech ) | Engineering (Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack) | SF / Remote | Full-Time At Hex we are solving critical problems around sharing and collaboration in data workflows. Our platform makes it easy for users to turn code notebooks into interactive data stories and applications their whole organization can use. We are building a world-class, diverse team, and looking for talented engineers up and do…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Dataframe SQL: Python or SQL? Why Not Both? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHex | Engineers FE/BE/Full-Stack/Infra | SF/Remote | https://hex.tech/ We are building a Data Workspace for teams. Imagine if code notebooks, SQL editors, and app builders weren't 3 things, but one thing that works really well together. The product is a lot of fun. We're well-funded, with great early traction. Our roadmap is full of big ideas and little details, and we would love your help bringing them to life. Che…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted A Pragmatic Approach to Live Collaboration as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHello, it’s Bryan, an author on this piece. I’d you’re interested in using one of the LLM-applications I have in prod, check out https://hex.tech/product/magic-ai/ It has a free limit every month to give it a try and see how you like it. If you have feedback after using it, we’re always very interested to hear from users. As far as fine-tuning in particular, our consensus is that there are easier options first. I pe…
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on “What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs”Submitted Don't Tell Your Data Team's ROI Story as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHello, it’s Bryan, an author on this piece. I’d you’re interested in using one of the LLM-applications I have in prod, check out https://hex.tech/product/magic-ai/ It has a free limit every month to give it a try and see how you like it. If you have feedback after using it, we’re always very interested to hear from users.
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on “What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs”Submitted Hex Magic as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHex | Remote (US & Canada) or San Francisco | Senior Software Engineer, Senior Product Designer, and many more roles here: https://hex.tech/jobs/ Hex's mission is to empower everyone to do more with data, together. Our platform changes the way Data teams work, giving them new superpowers, breaking down silos, and allowing organizations to be truly data-driven. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analyti…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Bringing “no-code” cells to Hex as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot sure if https://hex.tech fits here?
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on “Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks”Submitted Data, Knowledge, and our Series B as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWould you say this is an alternative to https://hex.tech/ , or does this fill a different niche?
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on “Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs”Submitted A Pragmatic Approach to Live Collaboration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDoesn’t fufill your wish for no-sign up link yet, but https://hex.tech supports live collaboration for python notebooks. I think as time goes on, live collaboration is becoming “table stakes” for a lot of tools.
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on “JupyterLite – WASM-powered Jupyter running in the browser”Submitted A Pragmatic Approach to Live Collaboration as a story · 3 points
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