ASK HN: WHAT IS THE MOST USELESS PROJECT YOU HAVE WORKED ON? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

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Developers are sometimes assigned tasks that make no sense. This Hacker News thread contains many examples of this phenomenon. Some of these examples include implementing fixes for a deprecated tool, making an internal tool suck more so people would stop using it, projects that never launched for various reasons, and a company morale meter.