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

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

#61

Post by marknutter » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

I find them all annoying. April 1st is basically my break from the internet.

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

#62

Post by turnersauce » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 6:02 PM UTC

For any DJs out there, the "Enable Auto DJ" button in Mixxx changes to "Enable Pee Break Mode" on April 1st.

http://www.mixxx.org/

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

#63

Post by jalammar » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 6:19 PM UTC

I'll have to make this a shameless plug, but it's probably the only way any of you will get to know about this.

My startup, Qaym.com is a restaurant rating site in Arabic. We're located in Saudi Arabia. April fools isn't a big thing here or in the Arab world in general. But people know the concept. Today we announced that we're changing the site to become exclusively a camel rating site.

We even made a logo: http://blog.qaym.com/2010/04/blog-post.html

And a homepage to boost: http://www.qaym.com/

Most people got it off the bat. Many were confused. And a couple were actually upset, even after they've figured out it was a joke!

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

#64

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:05 PM UTC

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

#65

Post by thehigherlife » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:07 PM UTC

dpcan wrote: post #40

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

i wish the iCade was real

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

#66

Post by sliverstorm » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:13 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!

You mean it's just a prank? I was kind of hoping it would stay.

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

#67

Post by Malk0lm » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:22 PM UTC

Kernel.org and their upsidedownternet. ¡unɟ sʎɐʍןɐ s,ʇı

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

#68

Post by ironkeith » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:24 PM UTC

CGamesPlay wrote: post #24

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?

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

I laughed at the reply to "cat".

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

#69

Post by aneesh » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:33 PM UTC

Let me Google that for you (lmgtfy.com) links point you to Bing search results.

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

#70

Post by splat » Thu, Apr 01, 2010, 7:40 PM UTC

The article "Orthographic Correlations in Astrophysics" by Zuntz, Zlosnik, Zunckel, and Zwarf on the arXiv.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064