Parqeye
Shares rank 17 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
A free, open source command line tool for visualizing and inspecting Parquet files, which people say fills a long-standing gap. Remote S3 support was not yet available when people discussed it.
A free, open source command line tool for visualizing and inspecting Parquet files, which people say fills a long-standing gap. Remote S3 support was not yet available when people discussed it.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 19
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 19 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fills long-missing Parquet inspection gap
“Great! ... Thank you for building this, it feels like resolving some old knot in my soul.”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files” “It’s crazy how long we’ve gone without a tool like this.”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files” “this was an annoyance of mine for so long”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files” - Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files”
Feels solid and useful
“This tool actually feels pretty solid too.”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files” “Apart from some visual glitches, this is an INSTANT BUY !”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Visual glitches reported
“Apart from some visual glitches, this is an INSTANT BUY !”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files” Fails on some geoparquet files
“failed for me when reading a geoparquet file created using duckdb”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files” No S3 remote support yet
“This looks beautiful but we're heavily invested in s3 so I'll wait for remote support”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
13 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Great! ... Thank you for building this, it feels like resolving some old knot in my soul.”
“Also allows you to do computations on the data in place.”
“This looks beautiful but we're heavily invested in s3 so I'll wait for remote support”
“This looks very handy, thank you for working on this and making it open source.”
“Beautiful, I'm currently deep into getting our data into iceberg”
“Very nice that it can show the metadata.”
“Yours looks much better for your use case”
“this hits a real pain point with Parquet”
“This tool actually feels pretty solid too.”
“failed for me when reading a geoparquet file created using duckdb”
“Apart from some visual glitches, this is an INSTANT BUY !”
“It’s crazy how long we’ve gone without a tool like this.”
“this was an annoyance of mine for so long”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.