List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by codeulike » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:02 AM UTC

Chrome Android App - Introducing #ChromeSelfie

http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/introducing-chromeselfi...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by guinness74 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:03 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…

  wolf3d -goobers

If that works, I'm sold.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by codeulike » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:05 AM UTC

seanhandley wrote: post #21

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson... Jeremy Clarkson joins campaign for fossil fuel divestment

More than 1.5 million Britons signed an online petition calling for Clarkson to be reinstated and for a relaxation of the laws against assault in cases that could be demonstrated to involve banter.

Practically true.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sanoli » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:06 AM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #185

pimlottc wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...

Of course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)

Oh man, those IRQ nightmares! Please don't mention those extended memory settings or I will go into my basement to look for my MEMMAKER notes on how to (maybe) get a game going...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by corobo » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:07 AM UTC

Online.net has a "Selfie" option when ordering. Pretty fun way to order a server to be honest!

https://console.online.net/en/server/selfie/Al5dpTp6Awp3

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by benn_88 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:07 AM UTC

First Raspberry Pi in Space http://www.raspberrypi.org/first-pi-in-space/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by 1234567890123 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:08 AM UTC

Terminal interface for omgubuntu: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/bash/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by kissickas » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:10 AM UTC

conroy wrote: post #7

You can play Pac-Man in Google Maps right now http://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-play-pac-man-in-google-m...

Ingress (the game by Google's Niantic Labs) also replaced some of its graphics with those of Pacman https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/8TQAYXzvQpB

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sanoli » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:12 AM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #5

CERN researchers confirm the existence of the Force http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researche...

"...Kenobi's seminal paper "May the Force be with EU" – a strong argument that his experiment should be built in Europe – persuaded the CERN Council to finance..."

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by josteink » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:13 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…

Or .Sony, except there is no guarantee Sony corp actually registered that TLD.