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Posit Open Source
Company blog · opensource.posit.co/blogdataprogramming
Posit Open Source is the company blog at opensource.posit.co, writing about data and programming. Since 2026, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “In defense of YAML”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Posit's open-source blog posts on a defence of YAML as a config format and on ggsql, a plotting approach that works within SQL. Comments give no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We build open source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. Our tools are designed to help you do better work, whether you're analyzing data, building models, creating visualizations, or sharing insights.
Most-linked posts?
- In defense of YAML3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-22
- ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-20
What Hacker News says?
Because YAML is the worst config format, except for all the others. https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05-21_in-defense-of-ya...
Comment linking /blog/2026-05-21_in-defense-of-yaml/
on “Slumber a TUI HTTP Client”Submitted In defense of YAML as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe plotting aspect of this seems very similar to: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_rele...
Comment linking /blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
on “Statistics that live in your SQL”Submitted Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Positron October Release Highlights as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quarto 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ggsql 0.4.1: new release adds spatial plotting and in-layer aggregation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bluffbench is near saturation: LLMs can interpret counterintuitive plots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Docs for Python Project Documentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Posit Assistant makes better use of your token budget than leading coding agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs often miss subtle visual artifacts in data visualizations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of YAML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Releases of Great Docs, a fairly new Python static site generator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great Docs: Beautiful Documentation for Python Packages as a story · 1 points
HN discussion