Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderFor something similar but different, I highly recommend people check out Visidata: https://www.visidata.org/ It's saved my ass on multiple occasions for data wrangling and munging and highly recommend people use it in their own toolkit.
A few other terminal based spreadsheets: Visidata https://www.visidata.org/ Oleo https://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/ Teapot https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
I tried this out when it was mentioned a few weeks ago[1]. It's pretty neat but does have a number of bugs. The packaged version also doesn't have xls support compiled in (at least on Fedora) which is unfortunate, though building is fairly easy[2]. I love the idea of it though, so I'm really hoping these issues get ironed out! I'm happy to help contribute if maintainers are willing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457009 [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
Similar is visidata. It's also a vim-like, but is geared specifically at tabular/relational data, so not a spreadsheet app in the strict sense. However, it can access SQL databases, and has a very flexible / intuitive approach to trasformations. http://visidata.org/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 717
- Total comments
- 200
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-11 | SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal | k2enemy | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-08-14 | SC-IM: An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal | 0xmohit | 61 | 10 |
| 2020-07-30 | SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal | laktak | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-08-29 | SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminalFirst breakout | laktak | 130 | 39 |
| 2023-06-02 | Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal | bitigchi | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-07-04 | SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheetHall induction · Best thread | emersonrsantos | 420 | 122 |
| 2026-04-06 | sc-im Spreadsheets in Your TerminalLatest 20+ point return | m-hodges | 98 | 29 |