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Manish R Jain
Personal blog · manishrjain.com · on HN as mrjnsystemsdatastartups
Manish R Jain's personal blog at manishrjain.com covers systems, data and startups. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Show HN: Launching Sustainable License, an Alternative to Open Source”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in threads on embedded key-value databases and the Badger project. The one comment cites the author's about page to suggest Cockroach's Pebble as an alternative, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing on databases, systems, and startups.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Launching Sustainable License, an Alternative to Open Source4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-07-19
- Show HN: Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-10-27
- Show HN: Outserv – GraphQL Search Engine2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-07-28
- VCs Fund Ideas, Not Execution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
What Hacker News says?
Judging from the precipitous decline in Badger commits since 20221 [0] and that the original/primary author is no longer with dgraph [1] or working on Badger, it may be worth looking at Cockroach's Pebble [2] instead. [0] https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/graphs/contributors [1] https://manishrjain.com/about [2] https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble
Comment linking /about
on “What's the big deal about embedded key-value databases?”Submitted Retrospection and Learnings from Dgraph Labs as a story · 106 points
HN discussionThings are cheaper when you put together your own hardware. For example: https://manishrjain.com/building-a-2-5-gbps-load-balancer-se...
Comment linking /building-a-2-5-gbps-load-balancer-server-for-500
on “Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads”Submitted Show HN: Outserv – GraphQL Search Engine as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTPS Reverse Proxy: Caddy Outperforms Nginx 4x as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Launching Sustainable License, an Alternative to Open Source as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Egres, A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing the Broken Open Source Funding Model with Sustainable License as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Outserv: Blockchain Search with GraphQL as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Brisk – Buy vs. Rent/Sell vs. Keep calculator tracking opportunity cost as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top 1% Smart Contracts Generated 96% of All Ethereum Logs – Bash Scripting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Outserv – Blockchain Search Engine with GraphQL APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted VCs Fund Ideas, Not Execution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: 0xFast Indexed Streams – Search and Stream Blockchain Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up ZFS Raidz for Sequential Workload as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a 2.5 Gbps Nginx server for $500 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing the Broken Open Source Funding Model with Sustainable License as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VCS Fund Idea Not Execution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running PostgreSQL on Ubuntu as Non-Postgres User: The Definitive Guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres 15 on Encrypted ZFS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Blockchain Search Engine with GraphQL APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open source funding model license as a story · 1 points
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