Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

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Ask HN: Have coders made stuff complicated on purpose?

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Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering?

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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

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Ask HN: Best resources on abstracting and dealing with complexity

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Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

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Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?

401 points by plemer 3 years ago | 473 comments

An Ask HN discussion thread where users share where they have found community, connection, and purpose outside of their jobs.

Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

597 points by panqueca 2 years ago | 645 comments

An Ask HN thread where the poster describes automating a deprecated internal tool and asks others about the most useless projects they have worked on.

Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

347 points by g4zj 2 years ago | 119 comments

An Ask HN thread where the poster describes losing curiosity and drive, focusing on personal issues, and asks if others are working on nothing.

Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?

25 points by guitarlimeo 12 days ago | 32 comments

Ask HN discussion asking whether senior engineers' architecture and design roles will survive as LLM coding agents improve through reinforcement learning.

Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

465 points by pcatach 2 years ago | 390 comments

Ask HN discussion thread where users describe the best codebases they have worked on and what made them good.

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

1214 points by rickybule 1 year ago | 657 comments

Ask HN thread where an Indonesian user asks for VPN alternatives after the government blocked Twitter, Discord, and Cloudflare WARP during unrest.