List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by anotherevan » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:21 AM UTC

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/5200...

An Australian and UK study has reported that increasing temperatures will result in an explosion of fire-breathing dragons around the world.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sneak » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:22 AM UTC

dagw wrote: post #92

sneak wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adding random things at the root of a hierarchy subverts the entire idea of having a hierarchy in the first place.

This battle was lost the second people started using .net and .org for things that wheren't related network technologies and non-profit orgranizations respectively. The nail was driven into the coffin when people started using country tld's for sites that had nothing to do with that country. If anything this might be step back in the right direction. Whereas I cannot tell anything about the nature or origin of a site…

Misusing the hierarchy is different than subverting it entirely. Also, your last statement isn't true.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by mguillemot » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:23 AM UTC

We are launching our MMO Gangs of Space on Game Boy!

https://www.gangsofspace.com/en

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by FanaHOVA » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:26 AM UTC

Not sure if UberLIONS is an April's fools joke or not, but it probably belongs here. Use promo code LIONCUBS and lion cubs (and a trainer) will come right to you ready to play. They'll also donate $1 toward the Big Cats Initiative.

https://blog.uber.com/nyc-uberlions-2015

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by cfj » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:27 AM UTC

Banish the Hamburger Menu, Adopt Pizza Menus

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-vs-pizza/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by infinity » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:28 AM UTC

The german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) claims that there is an inititiative to block cat images from the web due to excessive bandwidth consumption (article in german):

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/die-digital-d...

The other content to be blocked are 'theses concerning the future of journalism' ...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by asimaskit » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:29 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #102

1729 wrote: post #25

Uber-like on demand cab service in India launches an on demand helicopter service https://www.olacabs.com/air

It's 404ing.

https://www.olacabs.com/ola-air

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by FaisalRashid » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:30 AM UTC

Furious 7 got banned in Pakistan: http://www.shareonfb.com/n4nqp0/film-censor-board-bans-furio...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Sharlin » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:31 AM UTC

maaaats wrote: post #20

MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input…

Apparently WIN works too.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by spacemanmatt » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:32 AM UTC

netrus wrote: post #146

general_failure wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WOW, just wow. Will they not be losing money this way?

Short term, long term. "Hey, have you seen the Amazon.com homepage today?" - someone in every office everywhere today.

Possibly overrating the green field Amazon has left. I can't imagine any less than a savage disregard for Amazon's half-assed retro April fool's joke around my office. YMMV.