List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by jackreichert » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:07 PM UTC

NordVPN - Internet unlocked... on Mars https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-did-we-unblock-the-internet-of-...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by mdekkers » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

conroy wrote: post #3

The New Audi A8 http://www.audi.jp/gohan/

lol, in japan, a new car comes with a branded spankpaddle

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Intermernet » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:08 PM 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…

Does it do EDLIN and DEBUG ?

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by nickthemagicman » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

Argorak wrote: post #97

lobste.rs sports a full terminal interface with working chat and slowly updating lines. http://lobste.rs

This is cool. How do I do this on my site?

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by aladine » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

conroy wrote: post #9

Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mai...

I love the video so much. Very convincing and surreal

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by xyclos » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

Fast to the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLazRt8s8Wc

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by ChikkaChiChi » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:11 PM UTC

cies wrote: post #158

icebraining wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com? People here give way too much importance to TLDs.

I know a lot of folks using .dev for locally running "development" instances of websites/apps. Maybe .local is now a better choice.

Microsoft documents even dictate using .local, but if you have mDNS on your network you immediately start to run into problems.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by drincruz » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:13 PM UTC

jtaylor100 wrote: post #60

faizmokhtar wrote: post #47

Gentoo website makeover. https://www.gentoo.org/

That's actually pretty cool

Right, I actually like it and wouldn't mind if that stayed up for a while.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by MrArtichaut » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:13 PM UTC

Winner from the Password Hashing Competition http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by ChikkaChiChi » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 1:14 PM UTC

BetaMechazawa wrote: post #133

mmahemoff wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You wouldn't take Google seriously? I'm sure they didn't fork out just for today, they will be using it for their products at some point. In a few years, it will probably the standard domain for big corps. iphone.apple, macbook.apple, etc. It looks weird now (or an intranet address at best), but once people get used to it, it will be recognisable as a domain just as any.com is now. Not to mention, an explosion of TLD…

The fact that a company needs their own gTLD is silly. Sites like google have a perfectly good domain. Why use iphone.apple if apple can already do iphone.apple.com or apple.com/iphone? At the end of the day the consumer will not start guessing what domain he/she has to use to get what they want. The average consumer uses a search engine and types in "apple iphone". They don't care about iphone.apple they just want t…

Because ICANN set this up, and companies have to protect their trademarks.

Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.