Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today? • Hacker News Board

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

#11

Post by Goronmon » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:07 PM UTC

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/mobile/

As a runner-up...

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/

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

#12

Post by huherto » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:23 PM UTC

henrikschroder wrote: post #6

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)

You mean: "Do a Topeka search...." http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-com...

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

#13

Post by lincolnq » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:23 PM UTC

reynolds wrote: post #8

Am I the only one who hates April Fool's day on the web?

sorry, then this is not the thread for you :(

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

#14

Post by zaphar » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:30 PM UTC

I can honestly say Ars Technica's gets my vote. http://arstechnica.com/staff/nate/2010/04/tentacular-tentacu...

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

#15

Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:31 PM UTC

joshfinnie wrote: post #4

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

Am I the only one that thought this, and then realized you could just look at the source code, and then realized that I'm too lazy?

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

#16

Post by scdlbx » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:32 PM UTC

LHC used to discover the Neutrinosaurus

http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html

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

#17

Post by yesimahuman » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:37 PM UTC

reynolds wrote: post #8

Am I the only one who hates April Fool's day on the web?

Maybe you just find it exhausting to have all these awesome things come out on this day only to have them rudely taken away only hours later.

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

#18

Post by tlrobinson » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:37 PM UTC

I'm pretty partial to our own, which includes a working implementation: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/04/01/solving-the-javascr...

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

#19

Post by borism » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

eBay buys back Skype http://skypejournal.com/2010/04/ebay-buys-back-skype.html

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

#20

Post by Torn » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:42 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #15

joshfinnie wrote: post #4

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

Am I the only one that thought this, and then realized you could just look at the source code, and then realized that I'm too lazy?

Looking at the source isn't lazy that's just good thinking -- time is precious! :)

I went one step further after playing with it for 30 seconds and bypassed the source entirely: found a comment on reddit which listed all of the features and commands.