Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThis has been discussed before here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024488 And here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832209
What amazes me about this phenomenon and so many others is just how long the executive class are willing to stick with a counterproductive trend. RTO, open offices, development methodologies that disempower the developers, devops without people who understand ops, databases without dbas, Business Intelligence in basically every flavor. The unoriginality and lack of independent thought are striking. It’s as if they would rather fail doing the conventional thing than risk failure by doing something different.
I'd wager that in twoish years we'll see articles talking about the Remote Office Trap. Over the years we've seen a huge surge of individuals talking about the benefits of remote work and there are many. I'm not trying to ignore those benefits in any way, but there are downsides and I have little faith in most corporations to do a good job of addressing these new found problems in an optimal manner. And what works for some portion of…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 257
- Total comments
- 246
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-03 | The Open-Office TrapFirst breakout · Best thread | ColinCochrane | 153 | 183 |
| 2017-01-16 | The Open-Office Trap | chinathrow | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-03-05 | The Open-Office Trap (2014) | casca | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-01-26 | The Open-Office Trap (2014) | happy-go-lucky | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-08-23 | The Open-Office Trap (2014) | jseliger | 18 | 7 |
| 2025-08-21 | The Open-Office Trap (2014)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | cebert | 79 | 56 |