Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Formats

Cramming Scrapscript into Msgpack (taylor.town)
msgpack is a lovely little serialization format. As a JSON replacement, it saves bandwidth while preserving native language features (e.g. tuples, records, objects, dates).

Serialization, Programming Languages, Data Formats

12 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 1 comments

Nobody gets fired for picking JSON, but maybe they should? (mcyoung.xyz)
JSON is extremely popular but deeply flawed. This article discusses the details of JSON’s design, how it’s used (and misused), and how seemingly helpful “human readability” features cause headaches instead. Crucially, you rarely find JSON-based tools (except dedicated tools like jq) that can safely handle arbitrary JSON documents without a schema—common corner cases can lead to data corruption!

Programming, Data Formats, JSON

44 points by maximilianburke 38 days ago | 57 comments

Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? (mcyoung.xyz)
JSON is extremely popular but deeply flawed. This article discusses the details of JSON’s design, how it’s used (and misused), and how seemingly helpful “human readability” features cause headaches instead. Crucially, you rarely find JSON-based tools (except dedicated tools like jq) that can safely handle arbitrary JSON documents without a schema—common corner cases can lead to data corruption!

Data Formats, JSON, Software Development, Programming Languages

10 points by usdogu 39 days ago | 1 comments

Pg_parquet – Postgres to Parquet Interoperability (i-programmer.info)

Databases, Data Formats, Postgres, Parquet

4 points by plaur782 50 days ago | 0 comments

ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text (wordpress.com)
Unfortunately a quick google search on “ASCII Delimited Text” shows that IBM and Oracle failed to read the ASCII specification and both define ASCII Delimited Text as a CSV format. ASCII Delimited Text should use the record separators defined as ASCII 28-31.

Data Formats, Programming, Text Processing, Technical Standards

114 points by ejstronge 69 days ago | 117 comments

New better alterative to XML, JSON and YAML (xenondata.org)
Xenon is the best way to represent information: Terse. Readable multiple line indented text. Native support for arrays Native support for a graph structure, elements may have multiple parents. Native support for a types used in serialization. Unambiguous choice of data structure. Efficient to write by hand. Can be implemented to be blazingly fast or using a mode-less tokenizer/parser. The xenon document is named.

Data Formats, Programming Languages, Software Development

24 points by GeneThomas 75 days ago | 142 comments

JSON Patch (zuplo.com)
JSON Patch is a standardized format defined in RFC 6902 for describing how to modify a JSON document.

JSON, API, Web Development, Data Formats

300 points by DataOverload 93 days ago | 160 comments

JSON is usually the least bad option for machine-readable output formats (utoronto.ca)

JSON, Data Formats, Programming, Software Engineering

20 points by luu 143 days ago | 14 comments

CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good (matthodges.com)

Data Formats, Programming, Software Development

107 points by hieronymusN 157 days ago | 127 comments

Recommended Formats Statement (loc.gov)