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How “hustle culture” trended on Hacker News

“Hustle culture” was mentioned 1,148 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2021 with 32 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “hustle culture” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “hustle culture”

1. 1.Uber's 'hustle-oriented' culture becomes a black mark on employees' résumés 265 points · 188 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.How hustle culture took over advertising 208 points · 252 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.‘996’ Is China’s Version of Hustle Culture. Tech Workers Are Sick of It 71 points · 19 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Fundamental Flaw of Hustle Culture 61 points · 33 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.My hustle culture friend just died of a heart attack at age 32 37 points · 11 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Hustle culture is not toxic 33 points · 43 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: Performance psychology in the workplace? 32 points · 43 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.What I've learned from the world's elite is that hustle culture has it all wrong 27 points · 22 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Sleeping. Closed for business. 10p to 6a 18 points · 37 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Chinese youth rejecting the pressures of hustle culture by ‘lying flat’ 17 points · 6 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Quiet Quitting is Hustle Culture's reckoning 10 points · 1 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: Can you help me hire my replacement? 9 points · 0 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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