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Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
If you're feeling useless, remember that I exist.<p>Let me give you some context. I work in the pipeline automation department of a company. Last month, our team decided to deprecate an internal tool due to several maintenance issues. So we created a pipeline that automates the implementation of this legacy tool, in case other teams needed to use it. (WHAT???)<p>This month, a guy in my team found some improvement scenarios in the automation. So I was chosen to implement this changes in this legacy internal tool.<p>The thing is, after I finished the adjustments, my pull requests are not getting approved due to adjustments meticulously requested by this guy in my team. Adjustments to make the pipeline automation even more resilient in complete unlikely scenarios.<p>But this same week, my TL sent notices to all the other teams informing them that this internal tool has been deprecated and they should no longer use it. So what sense does it make to have a pipeline automation that implements the use of the deprecated tool? And if it has been deprecated, why would I need to make an adjustment for the automation to be even resilient if no one should be able to use it anymore? So why am I being allocated to work on in such waste of time like it? (WTF???)<p>This makes me wonder, how many people have to work on something that they see no sense in doing at all.<p>So once again, if you're feeling useless, remember that I exist.
Mario meets Pareto
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Timeline of the xz open source attack
Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
The race to replace Redis
Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
DBRX: A new open LLM
Daniel Kahneman has died
Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta