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 halv0112 » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:59 PM UTC

I like Atlassian fourwalls. Bringing foursquare to the enterprise with developer checkins. The site is funny. "Devlopers: use our API to write your own APIs". http://atlassian.com/fourwalls

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

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Post by oscardelben » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:59 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?

The problem is that the more you put apart things because of laziness, the more you become lazy.

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

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Post by m0th87 » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:59 PM UTC

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm

...at least I hope it's an April Fools joke, or we're seriously fucked.

EDIT: Actually this wins: there's a vowel outage at gmail http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.ht...

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

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Post by rapind » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 3:59 PM UTC

runevault wrote: post #2

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.

progressive text... so much better than interleaved text.

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

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Post by yanw » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:00 PM UTC

YouTube's TEXTp they should keep that in the labs projects, and the Google translate for animals was quite funny.

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

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Post by kez » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:01 PM UTC

The Independent's piece on the Circle Line (London Underground) being turned into the second Large Hadron Collider.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii...

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

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Post by chasingsparks » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:04 PM UTC

I don't know my favorite, but I do know my least favorite:

http://www.kernel.org/

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

#38

Post by hubb » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:04 PM UTC

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/equipmentpotenc...

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

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Post by Vivtek » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:04 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)

0.64 times the velocity of an unladen swallow. That's pretty good!

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

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Post by dpcan » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 4:08 PM UTC

I always like trying to figure out which of the products http://www.thinkgeek.com made up for April Fools.