17 engineers on Hacker News describe using Jupyter Notebook first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Jupyter added a layer of complexity, I deployed it alongside RStudio as browser IDEs in docker swarm.”
regret · production · bionsystem · 2026-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we add a Jupyter server connected to our read replica and we can do all sorts of reporting VERY QUICKLY”
endorse · production · santiagobasulto · 2024-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Jupyter to teach Python and Pandas to a lot of companies over the years”
endorse · production · reuven · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I see the appeal of Jupyter notebooks for someone testing out things or experimenting, but it's a bit like a brain dump”
mixed · production · rjzzleep · 2022-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“What we do is the cells that will end up in prod are written as functions inside of the notebook.”
endorse · production · proverbialbunny · 2021-01-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we needed to do jupyter notebooks in groups, and merging was horrible. ... I still think that jupyter notebook file format wasn't done for collaboration.”
regret · personal · ognarb · 2018-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently bought a fast laptop... I regret many years of SSHing to remote compute or using Jupyter remotely for machine learning development.”
regret · production · mark_l_watson · 2018-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ipython notebook completely changed the way I do data science”
endorse · personal · pvnick · 2015-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been migrating toward using ipython notebook for development and saving the code into .py files”
endorse · personal · aleyan · 2012-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Add to that the hundreds of Jupyter notebooks used by various people.”
neutral · production · rmah · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using self hosted langfuse via litellm in a juptyer notebook for a few weeks”
neutral · personal · robrenaud · 2024-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't find Python's typing valuable for Jupyter type explorations”
neutral · personal · wenc · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd been using Jupyter notebooks as a calculator for engineering problems”
neutral · personal · ahupp · 2023-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The paper now consists of 10 (chained) Jupyter Notebooks and about 16000 lines of code”
neutral · personal · 5 yr · Helmut10001 · 2022-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“making people install Jupyter and other python packages on their computer is difficult.”
neutral · production · abdullahkhalids · 2021-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a scipy image with Jupyter Lab in a similar way for my graphical notebook needs.”
neutral · personal · ryan-duve · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I'm coding in python I like to prototype in jupyter, copy code over, and then reimport anyway.”
neutral · production · erikgaas · 2020-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?