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AI · September 9, 2025

Sphinx – the Jupyter-native AI copilot for data scientists

Hey HN community! Over the past year, AI copilots like Cursor and Windsurf have fueled a dramatic shift in software engineering workflows. And yet, many technical users in adjacent fields like data science and analytics have been unable to reap the rewards of this revolution. It turns out that the existing tools are a poor match for analytical workloads. Beyond that Cursor and similar tools have very poor support for Jupyter notebooks, data science is a fundamentally different discipline from software engineering and we believe it requires a correspondingly different tool. We're excited to…

Sphinx – the Jupyter-native AI copilot for data scientists launched on September 9, 2025 with 6 votes, #3,421 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

Sphinx is a reliability system designed for organizations that depend on accurate, trustworthy data. It ensures that definitions stay consistent across systems, reducing manual fixes and eliminating guesswork.

S p h i n x m a k e s y o u r d a t a a n d A I r e l i a b l e . Sphinx AI continuously governs and corrects your data and AI outputs. It learns how your business defines, measures, and uses data, and makes sure every AI output is accurate. Sphinx AI continuously governs and corrects your data and AI outputs. It learns how your business defines, measures, and uses data, and makes sure every AI output is accurate. Your business logic, metric definitions, and institutional knowledge are automatically captured and continuously maintained as a single, living source of truth. Your business logic, metric definitions, and institutional knowledge are automatically captured and continuously…from sphinx.ai

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN community! Over the past year, AI copilots like Cursor and Windsurf have fueled a dramatic shift in software engineering workflows. And yet, many technical users in adjacent fields like data science and analytics have been unable to reap the rewards of this revolution. It turns out that the existing tools are…

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