Ask HN: What are the best April Fools of 2014?

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Post by Brian_Curliss » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are the best April Fools of 2014?

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Post by wehadfun » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:30 PM UTC

Usually come to HN to check out the good April Fools but some April Scroges took them all out.

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Post by ArtDev » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:38 PM UTC

I haven't been able to find any more than a couple and they were lame. Did everyone lose their sense of humor? What happened?

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Post by kanche » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:44 PM UTC

Most famous April fool jokes are the Google ones obviously

bonus!

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Post by laurenstill » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:51 PM UTC

Personally, I was a fan of Eisen forsaking open access.

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Post by bhousel » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:53 PM UTC

I usually hate April Fools jokes, but this openstreetmap one made me smile: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dcloud

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Post by ArtDev » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:54 PM UTC

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Post by daenz » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 7:56 PM UTC

Threadless launched a new cross-device mobile app for ordering shirts http://blog.threadless.com/post/81409106711/give-us-a-ring-y...

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Post by P4u1 » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 8:03 PM UTC

I have a good one, open issue to migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524