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How “the great resignation” trended on Hacker News

“The great resignation” was mentioned 1,319 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2021 with 91 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “the great resignation” 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 “the great resignation”

1. 1.The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation 396 points · 497 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Toxic culture is driving the great resignation 363 points · 363 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement 327 points · 323 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why? 325 points · 259 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go? 272 points · 305 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Changing jobs during the Great Resignation 245 points · 426 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent' 181 points · 252 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground 132 points · 362 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia? 117 points · 234 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.The great resignation is coming? 106 points · 171 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.There Is a Much Larger Problem Than the Great Resignation 95 points · 190 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Is compensation stagnation to blame for the great resignation? 81 points · 110 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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