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Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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Hey everyone, our team just built a tool to make your Github notebooks interactive and we would love for you to try it out. Just enter the GitHub URL of your (or any) public notebook and hit Render to instantly view the notebook. Your notebook will be rendered in an article-like layout and will get a table of contents. Anyone can fork it using the "Launch" button and play around with your code. The Deepnote viewer is also faster and more reliable than other .ipynb viewers we've tried. Would love for you to take it for a spin & hear your feedback!

Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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I've been using Deepnote for a while and highly recommend it. I love the features and they have also built a great community.

Github's jupyter rendering doesn't work for me most of the time so I am using Deepnote viewer these days.

Check out my published article that I wrote using Deepnote a while ago - https://deepnote.com/@tj/The-Starry-Cat-7HRaWnp8QhWYeK_x_QLD...

Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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Hey everyone, our team just built a tool to make your Github notebooks interactive and we would love for you to try it out. Just enter the GitHub URL of your (or any) public notebook and hit Render to instantly view the notebook. Your notebook will be rendered in an article-like layout and will get a table of contents. Anyone can fork it using the "Launch" button and play around with your code. The Deepnote viewer is…

That seems great, but for the comparison between DN viewer and the other, is there any benchmark tests specifically or it just a general feeling of speed when someone is using them. Because for each Jupyter notebook viewer it will depend on the setup, machine and the load itself.

Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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I've been using Deepnote to do some energy modelling for an academic paper I'm writing, and it's been great. The UI is much nicer than any other Jupyter editor I've used, and the integration with GitHub works well. Just started collaborating with some other researchers on another project so the real-time editing is coming in handy. So much better than using Excel.

I also interviewed their CTO, Jan Matas, as part of my developer interview services about how it's all built around k8s behind the scenes: https://console.dev/interviews/deepnote-jan-matas/

Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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Hey everyone, our team just built a tool to make your Github notebooks interactive and we would love for you to try it out. Just enter the GitHub URL of your (or any) public notebook and hit Render to instantly view the notebook. Your notebook will be rendered in an article-like layout and will get a table of contents. Anyone can fork it using the "Launch" button and play around with your code. The Deepnote viewer is…

That seems great, but for the comparison between DN viewer and the other, is there any benchmark tests specifically or it just a general feeling of speed when someone is using them. Because for each Jupyter notebook viewer it will depend on the setup, machine and the load itself.

Hi there! Simon (Engineer at Deepnote) here. We didn't benchmark the load speed but for some reason, Github's ipynb viewer has always felt to me quite slow and unreliable.

All viewers are publicly accessible so I'd love it someone did an independent benchmark. I'd prefer to avoid doing one ourselves because of the obvious conflict of interest

Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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That's pretty neat and looks nice. I wonder how it compares to fastai's nbdev/nb2md? https://www.fast.ai/2020/01/20/nb2md/

Hi, I'm Simon (Engineer at Deepnote). Thanks for the feedback!

nbdev is actually orthogonal to what we're doing, and you can use it within Deepnote! I've written a short guide on it: https://deepnote.com/@the21st/nbdev-Deepnote-MQQVcO8aQV--6rC...

Re: Show HN: Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles

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Nice gallery and great idea to publish these with a "Launch in Deepnote" button.

How is this different from publishing notebooks on Google Colab?

Also, I'm seeing some rendering issues where my progress bar is printed repeatedly when it's supposed to get overwritten: https://deepnote.com/viewer/github/pinecone-io/examples/blob...

Here's the Google Colab version for comparison: https://colab.research.google.com/github/pinecone-io/example...

Edit: Looks like it's an issue inside the notebook, not with Deepnote. Nevermind!

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