1. zoomastigophore 3 days ago

   I subscribed last december after knowing about it in last year's version of this thread. It is great and gives a very good summary of the HN week, I love it!
2. zoomastigophore Sep 12, 2025

   Where is Doom?
3. zoomastigophore Jul 23, 2021

   I agree data is hard.

   If we could provide a properly designed database which has already defined datatypes but that would be as easy to fill for a standard user as a preformated Excel table that would be great. You're right, Access has this simplicity, I just wish such tools would be available out-of-the-box for other DB engine.

4. zoomastigophore Jul 23, 2021

   I think one of the main problem with databases is how do you populate them.

   I wish there were simple-as-Excel frontends for databases where a normal user could input his data like in preformated Excel table without having to deal with the database mechanics.

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