Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#1

Post by joshfinnie » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:31 PM UTC

I think we need to get a single source for all today's pratical jokes that are getting submitter to Hacker News. I thought we could use this post as a forum of sort. This will also allow for people to upvote their favorites and we can get a running tally of the best-of-the-best.

Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#2

Post by runevault » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:34 PM UTC

Youtube's textp. If you haven't seen it yet somehow, many of the videos where you normally pick the resolution of the video now has a textp option, kinda hoping they keep it past april 1st.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#3

Post by felideon » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:39 PM UTC

xkcd's command prompt for sure

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#4

Post by joshfinnie » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:39 PM UTC

My favorite so far is XKCDs Command Prompt. There are so many easter eggs to find, it is definitely a time killer!

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#5

Post by cgranade » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:47 PM UTC

It's not an April Fool Joke per se, but http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/april-fool/ has to be the funniest thing I've seen in quite a few Aprils.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#6

Post by henrikschroder » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:48 PM UTC

Do a Google search for anything and look at the stats for the search.

Results 1 - 10 of about 397,000,000 for anything [definition]. (0.30 microfortnights)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#7

Post by Cornify » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 2:53 PM UTC

Personally I'm most excited about the paranormal romance "Unicorn School: The Sparkling". Start reading half-way down. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/psa-new-...