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muazzamon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

There's no backend or mutable DB to cache the translations. Didn't want to deal with deployment complexity associated with that for now.

muazzamon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

I've been working on a Persian classical poetry archive with LLM-generated translation. As a poetry enthusiast but a non-speaker of Persian, I wanted to read Rumi, Hafiz, and Bedil, but found myself jumping between ChatGPT and Google Translate. I sourced my data from Ganjoor, which was luckily available via their public API. Then I quickly put together a website with bring-your-own-key translation feature.

For now, there's no backend and it's hosted on GitHub Pages; it's a static website reading chunks from an sqlite-based DB file. I intend to change it in the future by running an LLM (preferably a frontier Gemini model, as works great for Persian) over the whole data set so you won't need a key to read the translated poetry. However, I don't have the budget of $1000-$2000 to spend on the tokens currently.

Website: https://0x5ce.github.io/farsidaan

Code: https://github.com/0x5CE/farsidaan

P.S. Contributions welcome.

muazzamon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2022)

SEEKING WORK | Islamabad | Remote

I am a generalist software developer with experience in a broad range of technologies, from full stack to blockchain. I learn fast and quickly adapt. My recent gigs include working for a Norwegian startup as a Clojure and Smalltalk developer, writing smart contracts for a creative codes project, and designing and implementing a dapp for Internet Astronout NFTs collection.

I'm up for any job that involves solving interesting problems with code. Feel free to write me at muazzam_ali@live.com

I am on Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/muazzamalikazmi

...and GitHub: https://github.com/0x5CE/

muazzamon Show HN: Visualize Graph Theory

Spoiler Alert

The gotcha thing about this puzzle is sort of greedy approach; try to disentangle the local sub-graphs - concentrate on any nodes of your choice and their connections - and the global graph starts to fall in its place. It's trivial approaching it like this.

muazzamon MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball

I'm no expert and can't examine all the bits in detail, however, I trust the likes of FSF and Stallman. So far, they haven't given approval to any laptop built after mid 2000s. I wonder why.

muazzamon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)

SEEKING WORK, Pakistan, Remote OK, Email: muazzam_ali at live.com

CS student at a top university, hobbyist developer for a long time, academic ML enthusiast. My last freelance project for NYC client involved building a screen and webcam recorder in C++ and Microsoft Media Foundation. Thanks to the memory-related bugs I encountered in C++, I decided to give Rust a go and loved it. In college, I took a semester-long Node.js and React.js course, so that's what I can handle on the front-end. For back-end work, I of course have a preference for Node.js, Rust, and Go but I'm a fast learner and can get started with any language in no time.

See:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muazzamalikazmi/

GitHub: https://github.com/muazzamalikazmi

Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01f448afbc28d5d09a

muazzamon A new funding model for open source software

Of course, I should've added that but that's not the main point.

muazzamon A new funding model for open source software

Yet another model that has probably been never used on high scale: letting people sponsor tickets (GitHub issues). The donation would go to the contributor who closes the ticket to the satisfaction of the main contributors. The amount, of course, will be decided by how a ticket is perceived as important.

muazzamon Windows98 Running in the Browser

The same reason Facebook loads multiple MBs of JavaScript code for something that could have been not more than 1 MB. One can't help but wonder about nefarious purposes: either collecting user data or abusing the computing resources. For companies that tend to hire the best and the brightest, the 'software bloat' theory is not compelling.

Curiously, major Linux distributions have also gotten significantly slower compared to early 2000s versions.

I wonder, for a thought experiment, what if companies stopped development on software when it reaches certain stage of maturity, say Windows 2000, providing only necessary security updates or optional visual changes?

muazzamon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes (for the duration of the internship)

Technologies: C++ (my preferred) language, MERN stack, Win32 and Media Foundation API

Resume: Available on request

GitHub: https://github.com/muazzamalikazmi

Email: skazmi.bscs17seecs@seecs.edu.pk

I'm currently an undergrad, majoring in CS, and am looking for an internship.

muazzamon Tour of My Roof

Takes forever to load images when I click on one.

muazzamon Ask HN: Is deep learning obsession in college ill founded?

Thanks, it helps. I'm actively looking for project ideas.

muazzamon Which is the stack you usually use to start your side projects?

I would love to use assembly x86 on baremetal (i.e., no code that's not written by me executes) as I used to do years ago but I will be needing an infinite time and that would be, career-wise, a complete waste of energy.

muazzamon FlingOS: An educational operating system

Great! Keep it up.

muazzamon ExDOS is developed by Omar, “almost 14 years old”

Keep in mind that I rarely use Twitter. However, feel free to contact me through email or Facebook.

muazzamon ExDOS is developed by Omar, “almost 14 years old”

Thanks for mentioning me, by the way. Oh, and I don't need a job--it's against my ego to ever work for someone else for money (though, I'll definitely help you, if you need it).