top 20 hacker news stories for 2013-05-25

Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more sick

http://qz.com/85400/moving-to-open-plan-offices-makes-employees-less-productive-less-happy-and-more-likely-to-get-sick/#

13 years ago

458 upvotes – 228 comments

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html?

13 years ago

276 upvotes – 89 comments

HTML5 Features you need to know

http://daker.me/2013/05/5-html5-features-you-need-to-know.html

13 years ago

267 upvotes – 73 comments

Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree

https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/8f381aa6bd5e

13 years ago

220 upvotes – 142 comments

Ydiff: Structural Comparison of Programs

http://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/ydiff/

13 years ago

176 upvotes – 33 comments

Google defends dropping chat federation with inaccurate comments

https://plus.google.com/116276248303121270590/posts/ggNwh9eLYWu

13 years ago

175 upvotes – 102 comments

Getting a job in San Francisco

http://blog.penso.info/2013/05/25/getting-a-job-in-san-francisco/

13 years ago

152 upvotes – 100 comments

Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid

http://www.tarsnap.com

13 years ago

147 upvotes – 132 comments

Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.

http://chrisblattman.com/2013/05/23/dear-governments-want-to-help-the-poor-and-transform-your-economy-give-people-cash/

13 years ago

146 upvotes – 109 comments

Use Google Analytics on your blog? Check your bounce rate

http://drawingablank.me/blog/fix-your-bounce-rate.html

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 65 comments

Dear Dumb VC

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/e17153fde5f1

13 years ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses

http://www.lifeaftercubes.com/2013/05/22/the-art-of-finding-anyones-email-addresses/

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 26 comments

It Is Not Flat Design. It's Just Proper Design

http://slid.es/andyrutledge/its-not-flat-design

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 55 comments

Game designer designs a game for 2,000 years from now, hides it in desert

http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/28/4157884/game-designer-jason-rohrer-designs-a-game-meant-to-be-played-2000

13 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

Go 1.1 performance improvements, part 2

http://dave.cheney.net/2013/05/25/go-11-performance-improvements-part-2

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 15 comments

Ask HN: I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5767985

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 72 comments

Is the FBI dumb, evil, or just incompetent?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/25/is-the-fbi-dumb-evil-or-just-incompetent/

13 years ago

88 upvotes – 103 comments

I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/ak-47-semi-automatic-rifle-building-party

13 years ago

87 upvotes – 230 comments

Clojure in the Field [video]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-tips

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 19 comments

A look at some of Python's useful itertools

http://naiquevin.github.io/a-look-at-some-of-pythons-useful-itertools.html

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 28 comments
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