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Post by hello_moto » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

You know what my solution for this problem?

Skip HackerNews every April 1st.

HN isn't a must-visited must-read site.

Get Real. Be Pragmatic.

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#22

Post by brianpan » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

hello_moto wrote: post #21

You know what my solution for this problem? Skip HackerNews every April 1st. HN isn't a must-visited must-read site. Get Real. Be Pragmatic.

Skip the internet on April 1. It's not worth the brain power trying to sort news from pranks.

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#23

Post by jedsmith » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:48 PM UTC

There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.

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Post by AlexC04 » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:51 PM UTC

snprbob86 wrote: post #16

It's one freaking day of the year. If you insist on being a total curmudgeon, can't you just skip the internet for a day? Come back tomorrow. If you miss one real article, the world will not come to a screeching halt.

"Hipster" is the word that came to my mind. "Too cool for the internet"

Oh well. I like them.

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Post by citricsquid » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:53 PM UTC

jedsmith wrote: post #23

There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.

you sly dog!

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Post by jedsmith » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:53 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #25

jedsmith wrote: post #23

There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.

you sly dog!

What do you think, 2.5/10? I didn't put a lot of effort into it.

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Post by mattyroze » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:54 PM UTC

please

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#28

Post by david72486 » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:54 PM UTC

It's just a day to be lighthearted. chill out, it will be over in a few hours!

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Post by ChuckMcM » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:55 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #9

phlux wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is ironic that /. is now mentioned ass a place to dump off your non-tech submissions.... Although, /. has always had a heyday with 4/1. I used to get a kick out of it., but now I am just old and boring.

Heh, /. was cool once, and maybe it even still is in some sort of bizarre sense of "cool." But they wandered away from their original focus years ago, and seem to embrace the AFD thing whole-heartedly, so...

Communities age, and institutions which appeal to members of a certain age tend to "wander away" when in fact the actual wandering is done by the members of the community as they age. Its a weird thing to watch.

My feeling is that people who used to hang out on /b now hang out on /. and in another few years will start hanging out here. (or some other site that targets that particular group in time)

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Post by quickpost » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:56 PM UTC

The 37signals one really got me:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2838-were-relocating-everyone...

I was annoyed at them for blasting remote work, until I started reading through the article and realized it was a joke.