Tangential, but what's the art style of those images throughout the page? I really like them.
glad you like em :) we're going for a gritty, off-world museum vibes. Generated with midjourney.
Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
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Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#22Very cool. Excited to try this out sometime!
let us know your thoughts. we're shipping updates every day
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#23It’s honestly welcoming to simply see a modern Numbers alternative- I never liked how Numbers handles filters, sorting, and views all different… all agentic AI stuff sound like a bonus to me
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#24This is definitely giving of vibes like what Deno/Bun are to Nodejs, Nobie is to Excel. I wish there was a Windows version. Hopefully, this gives the Excel team reason to compete and improve their product like what happened to Nodejs.
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#25Very cool, well done. I’ll try it out! Is the calculation engine for the formulas tour custom, or is it built on top of eg Apache POI?
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#26It’s honestly welcoming to simply see a modern Numbers alternative- I never liked how Numbers handles filters, sorting, and views all different… all agentic AI stuff sound like a bonus to me
We were tired of the Mac being a second class experience for working with spreadsheets (we're gonna be shipping this for all platforms soon though).
We're going to keep making this thing better and better until people look back on Excel wondering why people ever put up with it.
I hope you'll take Nobie for a spin, and give us whatever feedback comes to mind :)
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#27Very cool, well done. I’ll try it out! Is the calculation engine for the formulas tour custom, or is it built on top of eg Apache POI?
built from the ground up in rust, with the aim that it's much faster than Excel.
It supports all Excel formulas.
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#28This is definitely giving of vibes like what Deno/Bun are to Nodejs, Nobie is to Excel. I wish there was a Windows version. Hopefully, this gives the Excel team reason to compete and improve their product like what happened to Nodejs.
similar vibes, maybe less drama? lol
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#29Very cool, well done. I’ll try it out! Is the calculation engine for the formulas tour custom, or is it built on top of eg Apache POI?
Everything is custom, it's been a lot of work :)
Re: Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans
#30The copy here says that your data is Local-only and that it can interface with Claude, Codex, or Gemini... are you running these models locally, or am I missing something?