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New comment by manoji in "Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug"

manoji — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:31:18 +0000

Such a good write up . Having explored a little bit of sqlite internals for a codecrafters challenge i was mildly happy i could follow along what was happening .

New comment by manoji in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

manoji — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:13:09 +0000

I love Pi . I have been building an agent using its agent harness https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/tree/main/packages/agen... . I love the simplicity .

New comment by manoji in "Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI"

manoji — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:34:26 +0000

Hey ! Great work , I wanted to try something like this as well to begin my journey into games and computer graphics . I would love to know what resources you used to learn.

New comment by manoji in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

manoji — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:28:26 +0000

This is spot on ! Most of the work we really do is pure boilerplate and should be automated. While there are instances of interesting work those are far and few in between . The most recent instance of "how the hell did they do that?" for me was duckdb.

New comment by manoji in "Pausing New Challenges – Codecrafters"

manoji — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:01:15 +0000

Yes , I had so much fun implementing sqlite from the scratch . Incidentially it was right about the time I started trying claude code. I did the last challenge in sqlite to scan with an index using claude code and I was blown away. It actually solved it.

New comment by manoji in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

manoji — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:03:20 +0000

I am working on trentdb . An in process single node database query engine inspired heavily by duckdb . Its primarily for me to understand databases in depth . Its completely written by codex and in java . Why Java? Its the language I am most familiar with . I just finished adding support for running all TPC-H queries.

New comment by manoji in "Sirius DB"

manoji — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:49:35 +0000

Its sitting at the top in clickbench .Pretty cool https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/#system=-&type=-&machine=-c...

Sirius DB

manoji — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sirius-db.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46441781

Points: 144

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New comment by manoji in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

manoji — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:27:43 +0000

I am Working my way through https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/sqlite/overview . Its been so much fun .

New comment by manoji in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

manoji — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:11:34 +0000

I am working through https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/sqlite/overview . its been pretty good.

New comment by manoji in "Good system design"

manoji — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 07:28:33 +0000

Excellent article . Few more that come to mind

Think real carefully about breaking transactionality unless absolutely needed . It has been the single source of most problems i have seen over the past few years.

Keeping 2 different systems in sync is really hard do not do it if you dont have a real need to do it.

Monoliths are really good , there is absolutely no need to run microservices or any services for that matter other than a single monolith. The place where i work at is generating billions of dollars with a single monolith.Having said that there will come a time when some logic has to go to a different services , If you get there your company is really really successful :) .

Relational databases can do a lot more than what you think and they can absolutely scale well.

New comment by manoji in "Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing"

manoji — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:57:26 +0000

Surprised syncthing isn't mentioned yet. It has been the most stable sync tool for me over the years https://syncthing.net/ . Solid product . Great oboarding experience for Blip! Its just working!

New comment by manoji in "“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”"

manoji — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:47:29 +0000

DP(Dynamic Programming) is such a beautiful technique .It took a while for me to grasp it . There are many applications in real world systems as well. Eg Duck DB's join order optimizer is built on https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/papers/20-optimi... .

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/blob/61f07c3221e01674d8fe40...

New comment by manoji in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

manoji — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:08:52 +0000

I am writing a database purely to satify my curiosity and to do something fun . https://github.com/edisontrent17/trentdb/tree/main

New comment by manoji in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

manoji — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:22:27 +0000

> Think of anything you wanted to build but didn’t. You tried to home in on some > first steps. If you’d been in the limerent phase of a new programming > language, you’d have started writing. But you weren’t, so you put it off, for a > day, a year, or your whole career.

> I can feel my blood pressure rising thinking of all the bookkeeping and Googling and dependency drama > of a new project. An LLM can be instructed to just figure all that shit out. > Often, it will drop you precisely at that golden moment where shit almost works, and development means > tweaking code and immediately seeing things work better. That dopamine hit is why I code.

This is me . Just yesterday I finished something I have been putting off for 2 years. I maintain 2 mobile phones one because of work and i needed a way to see sms messages from the other phone. I wanted to write a simple andoird app that reads incoming messages and saves them somewhere for me to use for OTP's and other stuff. For the longest time I wanted to build something like this for myself but I have been putting it off just because of all the weird issues i had been getting with mobile development. A couple of days ago since I had some time and I fired up gemini and asked it to write me a simple flutter app for and to save the messages to supabase and voila it was amazing . With some help and some tweaking I have a fully functioning mobile app on andoird , a small tauri application on desktop to read the messages nicely formatted in a data table without much coding on my part at all. Truly remarkable.

New comment by manoji in "How to Make a Living as a Writer"

manoji — Sat, 24 May 2025 07:33:49 +0000

Loved this article . It took me back to the days of just reading random stuff out of the blue and just enjoying it undistracted.

New comment by manoji in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

manoji — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:23:26 +0000

Hey i love cronitor! Happy user here , it has saved me from multiple disasters. Thank you for building it.

New comment by manoji in "Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality"

manoji — Fri, 03 May 2024 04:14:41 +0000

I was surprised how much cardio fitness improves by just losing weight. After losing close to 10 kgs I was able to run a 5K consistently 3 times a week and reached a respectable level of fitness for playing basketball

New comment by manoji in "Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?"

manoji — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:41:39 +0000

I'd give it to From Software.

New comment by manoji in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

manoji — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:38:19 +0000

https://github.com/manoj-inukolunu/migtunnel MigTunnel , ngrok like tunnel for my local use.