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wasi0013on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

Experimenting with various AI models via GitHub Co-Pilot on an extremely niche project to see how far these models have progressed. Used like ~60% of the premium quota to develop the following projects:

website: https://murajah.pages.dev/

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.murajah.we...

Manual audio splitting tool for the above project: audio-splitter-6b3.pages.dev/

I've always been skeptical of AI-generated code. This is my first experiment with AI agents, where the full code base, implementation, debugging, and deployment are done using AI Agents MCPs.

Used VS Code all the way, i.e., all the source codes, including the code to generate the Google Play Store APK. I only reviewed the source code before committing and helped debug by suggesting ideas/algorithms.

Mostly used Claude Haiku 4.5 like 75% of the time, where it failed, switched to the sonnet 4.5 or GPT 5 codex. Interestingly, when debugging, sometimes one model struggled even after numerous iterations/feedback loops, but then the problem was solved instantly as soon as I switched to another model.

The source codes are available here:

https://github.com/wasi0013/Murajah

https://github.com/wasi0013/audio-splitter

Initially, I thought the audio splitting could be done automatically using some AI models from Hugging Face or Whisper. But the audio files have some complex repetitions; the output was miserable.

So, for now, this splitting is done manually using a Web UI (The audio splitting tool splits the large audio files into multiple small audio files, think of it like a long paragraph is split into multiple sentences.)

I will attempt again to automate this splitting task using AI, after drafting a game plan for tackling the challenges. I'm thinking of using energy drops and other similar factors to create segments.

wasi0013on The Struggle to Visualize Zettelkasten Notes and How I Solved It

Thanks for sharing my article!

TL;DR: My Obsidian Zettelkasten vault grew beyond 6,000 notes, and the graph view couldn’t handle it. It would freeze whenever I zoomed in to find subtle cluster of notes.

The graph view is valuable for spotting hidden relationships, connecting ideas, and turning scattered notes into something useful. In this article, I share my experience and a workaround using an alternate browser-based visualization tool which is working great so far.

wasi0013on Ask HN: Frequent Cloudflare Captcha/Blocking on various websites?

Yes, Outside of US. No, not using Firefox. VPN has little to no effect, when it happens. I even tried their own product cloudflare-wrap. It makes things worse sometime, which is an irony.

Privacy pass needs to be configured/enabled on the website's end or zone, no? I'm somewhat skeptical on using such extensions, I would rather avoid going to the websites unless it's a necessity.

wasi0013on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://hellowasi.com/blog

I don't post much and if I do it's usually about programming and tech.

wasi0013on Advent of Code 2021 with PostgreSQL

Oh! I almost forgot it is worth mentioning the creator of Elixir Language "José Valim" also solves these problems and streams them on twitch [0].

Those are helpful to learn different approaches to solving these problems.

[0] Github: https://github.com/josevalim/aoc

[1] Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/k_DLnk2tvBa-fQ

wasi0013on Advent of Code 2021 with PostgreSQL

Wow, this is so cool! My goal of this year is much more simpler. Hopefully this year, I will solve all of them using a Functional programming Language named Elixir [0]. So far, I'm loving it! The source code is available on GitHub [1]

The repository also contains couple of mix tasks to generate boilerplate codes for each solve. And update the readme automatically on each commit to list the problems that I've solved so far.

[0] Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/

[1] Github: https://github.com/wasi0013/advent_of_code

wasi0013on Ask HN: What are you learning?

I thought it will be easy to implement and also a bit of nostalgia.

I was a 2nd/3rd semester CS student at that time when I saw BF code for the first time on a Competitive programming platform named SPOJ[0]. Later, I found it again on a code golfing website[1].

I thought it would be fun to learn as the language only had 8 commands! I learned it and wrote a tutorial[2] on my native language for my best friend so that we could have some fun together with it :D

[0] http://spoj.com/

[1] http://golf.shinh.org/

[2] https://github.com/wasi0013/Bangla-Brainfuck-tutorial/blob/m...

wasi0013on Ask HN: What are you learning?

Yes, I meant the Advent of Code.

wasi0013on Ask HN: What are you learning?

Exploring Elixir & Phoenix. Solved some AOC & exercism problems with it, and wrote a BF compiler. So far, enjoying every bit of it. The language itself is beautiful! Codes are available on my Github[1] account :).

[1] https://github.com/wasi0013/

wasi0013on Ask HN: What is your learning plan for 2020?

I'm learning Elixir & Vim this year. I hope to become productive with vim and make it my primary editor by replacing PyCharm, Sublime Text 3 & nano by the end of this year :)

I am also taking notes of all the resources that I'm finding useful and have some plans to utilize my spare time to publish those as a series of blog articles(hopefully). Merely to share my vim & elixir journey on my personal blog[0] :)

[0] https://wasi0013.com/blog/

wasi0013on Show HN: Covid-9 Growth Charts by Country and Region

Also see: https://coronavirus.app

wasi0013on Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess‎

Amazing! I also learned chess with the same rule when I was a kid. I didn't know it was known as Indian chess! Except, in some variations, castling was allowed. Also, another variation allowed two different pawns to move a single square on "Move 1" for both Black and White.

(I'm from Bangladesh)

wasi0013on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)

Location: Bangladesh

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: Not now, but maybe after a year.

Technologies: Python, Django, Scrapy, Selenium, Postgres, Pandas, Beautifulsoup, nltk, textblob, redis, etc.

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/wasi0013

Contact: https://wasi0013.com/contact/

Email: wasi0013@gmail.com

Upwork: https://upwork.com/fl/wasi0013/

wasi0013on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

Location: Chittagong

Remote: Yes (Preferred)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Scrapy, Pandas, selenium, requests, BeautifulSoup

Résumé/CV: request it via email

Email: https://wasi0013.com/contact/

wasi0013on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)

SEEKING WORK | Chittagong, Bangladesh (GMT +6) | REMOTE ONLY

Web Application Development, Data Mining & Extraction, Web scraping & Automation.

3+ years of working experience as a Software Engineer. Checkout my Website/Linkedin for works, client feedback/recommendation.

Tech: Python, Selenium, Beautifulsoup, requests, Django, pandas, postgres, Scrapy, git

Work Hours: 10-30 hours (per week)

Website: https://wasi0013.com/

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/wasi0013

Github: https://github.com/wasi0013

* Contact details are available in my [website](https://wasi0013.com).

wasi0013 on Ask HN: Which startups are fighting Cancer?

I'm a Software Engineer and I would also like to help such researches with my skills...
I'm emotionally attached to this fight as my mother died 3 years ago due to adenocarcinoma. That disease not only cost me my mother but also made the whole family financially weak...
Although, I've completed my B. Sc in CSE ( in the same year my mom passed away) After completing my B. Sc I had joined a Startup as a software engineer and worked there for around 9 months. Since then, I've been providing python based web development, data mining and analysis services on various freelance platforms and through my website. With the help of my wife I have also started my own startup which consists of 6 members including us & focused on web application development & Data Mining/ Analysis services.
I have keen interest in cancer research... Hopefully, I will pursue MS/PhD on relevant field when I have enough fund for that so that, I can learn more about it.
My target is to save at least 1

wasi0013 on Ask HN: About to quit my job and work full-time on my side business, advice?

I think you should read this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkJ6Ruh2IiR-caT-PS3n5Yt5...
Take it with a grain of salt and use your intuition. Related thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214512

wasi0013 on Ask HN: How to cope with job hunting and depression?

Utilize your skills that you have gained through your experiences. You don't have to be a full time employee! For example, you can even do freelance works on different platforms. You might not get hand full of money at the beginning but, something is better than nothing right? Another option will be to build a network while working and start consultancy services. Just find the people that needs your help. And, start helping others.
I'm not as experienced as yours (I'm 25 years of old). But, I had suffered from depression as I faced betrayals in my first job at a startup. Then, started from scratch and started focusing on freelance works. I was lucky enough to find some great clients from the globe. One of them even gifted a laptop to me that I'm using to write this comment. Eventually, with the help of my clients me and my wife even started our own startup (still self funded)! Its been almost 1.5 years and counting...
Please, don't quit. You will never know what is waiting for you! Sometimes you won't find a door of opportunity so, all you have to do is build the doors so that opportunities can come to you! I wish you all the very best.
Feel free to get in touch[1], If I can help you in any way. :)
[1] https://wasi0013.com/contact/

wasi0013 on Ask HN: How do you invite contributors to contribute on your project?

Thanks for the suggestion! Let me introduce LABvantage - A Laboratory Information Management System developed using Django, Python 3, Celery, PostgreSQL targeting primarily oil labs. Its still in the early development phase. As, we progress we are aiming to improve and, also extend LABvantage to support various lab domains as well.
Source: https://github.com/dreamcatcherit/labvantage/ :)

wasi0013 on Ask HN: Tools for making professional videos with text online/offline?

I use Openshot right now

wasi0013 on Show HN: Ting Ting – An 88 keys piano built using Phaser JS

http://phaser.io/news/2017/05/ting-ting

wasi0013 on Show HN: Ting Ting – An 88 keys piano built using Phaser JS

Source Repository: https://github.com/wasi0013/Phaser-Piano

wasi0013 on Ask HN: What is your most impressive hackathon project?

If you are familiar with python then try scrapy[1]. You can also scrape websites using beautifulsoup4[2]
[1] https://scrapy.org/ [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4

wasi0013 on Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus released

The need of swap partition (typically 2x ram_size) makes little sense for systems with adequate Memory as it is rarely used. Also, the size of the swap file will be no more than 5% of free disk space (or, 2 GB RAM) for ubuntu 17.04 which is much lower than a swap partition could be another reason.

wasi0013 on Show HN: Ting Ting – A piano in less than 100 lines of JS (using Phaser.js)

I like the simplicity. For spectogram try this: https://github.com/katspaugh/wavesurfer.js

wasi0013 on Show HN: Ting Ting – A piano in less than 100 lines of JS (using Phaser.js)

Well, I thought about writing a bot that will play music but no plan to add recording and playback feature.And, one more thing! added support for mouse clicks :)

wasi0013 on Show HN: Ting Ting – A piano in less than 100 lines of JS (using Phaser.js)

demo: http://wasi0013.github.io/Phaser-Piano

wasi0013 on Node-browserify 10.1.3 Released

browserify website (http://browserify.org/)

wasi0013 on Show HN: My Meteor Hello World Project (Online Voting System)

demo: http://ovs.meteor.com