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team effort, but this awesome goes to Trevor
How do you teach the model to use this new API? Wouldn't they be more effective just using the polars/pandas API which is has been well trained with?
This is cool. Do you still use this? There has been ideas thrown around to add "prompt" cells to marimo that can similarly create outputs or downstream cells and the prompts are serialized to the notebook py file and part of the DAG.
it would be awesome if this embedded marimo notebooks that run on WebAssembly (via https://marimo.app/)
Re:Ranking Alternatives to Streamlit on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:48AM (#44419844)
1. marimo
Re:Notebooks as reusable Python programs on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @10:27PM (#43419378)
It wasn't included in the blog, but marimo also supports a markdown format, in case you're interested:

    marimo edit notebook.md
Re:Notebooks as reusable Python programs on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:50PM (#43417195)
The parent comment wasn't fully correct. marimo doesn't store outputs in the notebook file, but it does have many ways outputs are stored alongside the notebook, or remotely if you'd like: HTML, ipynb, pickle
Re:Notebooks as reusable Python programs on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:42PM (#43417104)
It may be preferable to create a variable tied to a UI element that can be used as a toggle to view each analysis.

choice = mo.ui.dropdown(['train', 'split')

data = load(choice.value)

processed = process(data)

visualize(processed)

This way, you can toggle between just more than two if needed. If you need to see both at once, you'd want to refactor the processing and visualizing step into functions, and then just duplicate the finals cell(s).

marimo has a multi-column mode, so you can view them side-by-side

Re:Notebooks as reusable Python programs on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:34PM (#43417005)
The default "store" is a local FileStore. In your case, it will save the outputs to a file on disk called `my_cache`.

We plan to add more stores like Redis, S3-bucket, or an external server, since you may not always want to commit this file, but like you said want others to avoid the computation.

Re:Notebooks as reusable Python programs on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:31PM (#43416965)
> One design decision they made is that outputs are not stored

This is not quite true. Outputs are not stored...in the Python file*. marimo does store outputs in the `/__marimo__` folder with settings enabled.

> writing the boiler plate to let the reader load the results.

Therea are some primitives to do this for you, such as mo.persistent_cache. This can be an annotation or 'with' block. It intelligently knows when either the source code or inputs change.

The plan is to take this one step further than storing just the output. Because marimo knows the dependencies of each cell, in a future version, it will store each output AND let you know which are stale based on code changes. This is being built by Dylan (from the blog) and inspired by Nix.

Re:Show HN: Online Python Compiler with Libraries on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:49PM (#43375375)
Looks awesome! big fans of pyodide, congrats on the launch
Re:Optimizing Jupyter Notebooks for LLMs on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:55PM (#42783178)
You might be interested in marimo [1], which does not store your outputs in the notebook artifact. Also the files are stored at pure-python instead of json, which LLMs much prefer / easier for them to parse.

[1]: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo

Thanks for sharing these resources
It is much smaller than that, Pyodide is only 2.8mb and the Python stdlib is 2.3mb when zipped
Yea, this can be hosted on GitHub pages without any vendor infra (no marimo.app)

These are two separate features:

1) marimo.app + github.com/path/to/nb.ipynb does run on marimo.app infra. this is what the Show HN was about

2) separately, you can use the marimo CLI to export assets to deploy to GitHub page: `marimo export html-wasm notebook.py -o output_dir --mode run` which can then can be uploaded to GH pages. This does not find all the data in your repo, so you would need to stick any data you was to access in a /public folder for your site. More docs here: https://docs.marimo.io/guides/exporting/?h=marimo+export+htm...

Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub

https://docs.marimo.io/guides/publishing/playground/#open-notebooks-hosted-on-github

Hi HN!Last year, we shared marimo [1], an open-source reactive notebook for Python with support for execution through WebAssembly [2].We wanted to share something new: you can now run marimo and Jupyter notebooks directly from GitHub in a Wasm-powered, codespace-like environment. What makes this powerful is that we mount the GitHub repository's contents as a filesystem in the notebook, making...

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it’s already possible to do this: marimo export script nb.py

Pure-python also helps to work with existing tools out of the box: formatting, linting, pytest, importing notebooks as modules, composition, PEP 723 inline metadata

Re:Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @10:43PM (#42458235)
this sort of hackery to work with jupyter notebooks is exactly why we are building marimo (https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo). this should not be the standard
Re:Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @02:10PM (#41583450)
marimo has a playground to run notebooks via WebAssembly - similar to Bento - without having to deploy yourself: https://marimo.app/
We would like to make this configurable via a setting so you don't need to pass it through the CLI every time. And I agree, maybe a tooltip/notification to nudge them in that direction.

We would also like to auto-detect a pyproject.toml, and use that when desired.

Re:Sandbox Python notebooks with uv and marimo on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:30PM (#41404682)
uv + marimo lets you run Python notebooks in a sandboxed environment.

This increases reproducibility and helps prevent environment pollution. If your notebook has inline script metadata, marimo will automatically install the enumerated packages before running the notebook; if it doesn't, marimo will prompt you to install the missing packages on notebook startup.

Re:Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool on Friday August 16, 2024 @02:42PM (#41269159)
marimo notebooks support mermaid as well - https://docs.marimo.io/api/diagrams.html#marimo.mermaid

It is a great tool for diagrams

Re:Build Marimo Plugins with Anywidget on Monday August 12, 2024 @02:00PM (#41227424)
You can now build plugins inside marimo using anywidget (https://github.com/manzt/anywidget).

For reference, we did a Show HN for marimo earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971966).

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