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

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

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Post by tibbon » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:43 PM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #18

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

You got me! I read that late last night and thought it was real....

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

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Post by Groxx » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:44 PM UTC

Goronmon wrote: post #11

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/mobile/ As a runner-up... http://www.cheapassgamer.com/

Can the Blizzard games please be real? I want to out-surf and out-shoot a megalodon! I can feel the Epic right through the Internets!

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

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Post by cperciva » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:45 PM UTC

I rather like Werner Vogel's 'AWS Import/Export for Legacy Storage Systems' joke -- once you read the text, it's very obviously a joke, but the title itself sounds rather plausible: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/04/aws_importexport...

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

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Post by CGamesPlay » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:46 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?

Type "i read the source code" into the prompt.

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

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Post by tibbon » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

reynolds wrote: post #8

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

Yes

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

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Post by mtinkerhess » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

Reddit has a "turn admin on" link next to your username. When admin is on, you can change headlines, vote multiple times, see user's IP addresses and likelihood of being a bot or a spammer, and ban users in three different ways. And the background on comments pages is from the Sistene Chapel.

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

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Post by arethuza » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:47 PM UTC

I rather liked the Y Permutator story - if for no other reason than it made me think whether it should have been C Combinator.

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

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Post by Groxx » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:47 PM UTC

Torn wrote: post #20

pavel_lishin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Meta-source-code-reading?

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

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Post by rapind » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:57 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!

Great. Just wish it had bash completion.

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

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Post by joshfinnie » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:58 PM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #14

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

Not sure if you noticed it or not, but the new logo is a very nice touch!