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KNIME
Company blog · knime.com/blogdataai
KNIME is the company blog at knime.com, writing about data and ai. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Knime – End to End Data Science”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention KNIME as a visual data-workflow and machine learning pipeline tool, often in comparisons with Alteryx, Galaxy, Orange and similar tools. The comments are mostly bare links or tool mentions, with nothing about the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Knime – End to End Data Science7 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-09-23
- /why-visual-workflows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
What Hacker News says?
https://www.knime.com/
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on “Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js”Submitted Why AI isn't making it to factory floors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've been involved with RDF and sometimes it seems the gap between "too simple to use RDF" and "too hard to use RDF" is tiny. For instance I tried to pitch a data processing library a bit like https://www.knime.com/ but where RDF graphs (roughly like a JSON document) get passed over the "lines" but found that the heavy hitters in this space believed this sort of product has to use columnar execution to be "fast enou…
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on “The hunt for the missing data type”Submitted Knime – End to End Data Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are a number of visual data transformation environments, including https://www.easydatatransform.com (I am the developer), https://www.alteryx.com and https://www.knime.com .
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on “Excel Never Dies”Submitted Text Mining Use Cases Plus Deep-Dive into Techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think there are something like this, don't know what the difference, can someone give a compare: deep learning studio: http://deepcognition.ai/ knime: https://www.knime.com/ (have deep learning plugin) runwayml: https://runwayml.com/ (in beta, did not open for public)
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on “Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple”Submitted Seven Techniques for Data Dimensionality Reduction – KNIME as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPipeline mgmt tool with a GUI, or tool for cli tools with a GUI? ;) One very widely used option is Galaxy https://galaxyproject.org You might also want to check out: - Arvados https://arvados.org - Chipster https://chipster.csc.fi - Knime https://www.knime.com They each have their strenghts and weaknesses. I'd probably be going with Galaxy as the default option, unless you find specific reasons to go with some of th…
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on “Using AWK and R to parse 25TB”Related: https://enso.org/ https://www.knime.com/ https://orangedatamining.com/
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on “Show HN: A flow based data processing editor”I'm a fan of KNIME ( https://www.knime.com/ ) for those "Sunday Driver" pipelines that I use heavily for a few days or a week and then shelve for months at a time. It uses Python / Pandas as its code layer.
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on “The Software Crisis”The data driven process app sounds similar to the ideas behind Knime ( https://www.knime.com/ ) to me. I think the visualisation matters though. It's much easier to convince people that the automated actions are worth doing once the related data is visualised. And at that point, whatever provides you both may be the best solution.
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on “Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus”Yeah, there are also the boxes and lines tools like https://www.knime.com/ which have their own subculture. You could solve the same problems they do with pandas and scikit-learn but people who use those tools would never use pandas and scikit-learn and vice versa. Circa 2015 I was thinking those tools all had the architectural flaw that they pass relational rows over the lines as opposed to JSON objects (or equival…
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on “Dgsh – Directed graph shell”I spent a lot of time thinking about no/low code and one conclusion I came to was that there was "the program" and then there was the way it displayed. Consider https://www.knime.com/why-visual-workflows the topology of the connection between the blocks is essential to execute the program; that doesn't require coordinates for the blocks, but the visual editor does. The ideal tool has a clean separation between these…
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on “Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)”I use a desktop system which has python as its scripting layer, and exposes data to python nodes using pandas. (In case you're wondering, https://www.knime.com/ )
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on “Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL”Seems like a suitable candidate if you ever get tired of KNIME[0]. [0]: https://www.knime.com/why-visual-workflows
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on “Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor”I would vote it up if it wasn't for the hyperbolic title. Funny I worked on a "model trainer" circa 2018 which was a hot mess. The trouble with it was that some models could be trained in 30 seconds on a small machine and the tools from scikit-learn for model selection were great. Other models would take a few days and had huge data sets and we'd have to code up our own model selection tools. Over time I came to und…
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on “You are an absolute moron for believing in the hype of "AI Agents"”There are a lot of "boxes and lines" tools like https://www.knime.com/knime-analytics-platform that are based on a model similar to relational databases in that "rows" pass along the lines. I worked on a pitch and even a prototype for a product that passes a hybrid of JSON documents and RDF graphs over the lines. A pure relational system has a "spaghetti" problem because you have to use joins heavily. For instance i…
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on “Visual vs. text based programming, which is better?”https://www.knime.com/deeplearning/tensorflow Dataiku integrated Tensorflow as well but I don't know whether it's available in the free version.
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on “Ask HN: Any open source drag drop tool for tensorflow/pytorch?”I went through a time when I was pitching a "boxes-and-lines" data processing tool like https://www.knime.com/ which more-or-less passed JSON documents (instead of SQL rows) over the lines and found that the kind of people who bought and finance database startups wouldn't touch anything that couldn't be implemented with columnar processing. I thought that this kind of system would advance the "low code" nature of th…
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on “Hotspot Performance Engineering Fails”
