List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by hobarrera » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

masida wrote: post #39

wippler wrote: post #26

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

Amazon Dash Button https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button

That's a real product, and was actually announced March 31st.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by enkiv2 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:22 PM UTC

tajen wrote: post #67

April fools I wanted the most: - NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities, - Water allowed on board of planes, - ISIS converting to Christianity, - Apple patenting the patent, - Snapchat releasing a payment system Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...

You may need to depend upon the Yes Men to fulfill some of those wishes, if you desire legitimate press conferences.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by na85 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:23 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.

I use .lan

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by hdmoore » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:27 PM UTC

Metasploit Framework rolls out new banners: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/5047

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Zigurd » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:29 PM UTC

Latvia to get Mistral warship instead of Russia: https://euobserver.com/news/128217

It was picked up as fact by several Rusian media outlets: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KJbT4Xw...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by krallja » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:30 PM UTC

https://meh.com/ applies one of several vertigo-inducing CSS transforms

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by kevando » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:30 PM UTC

M8 wrote: post #71

wippler wrote: post #26

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

This is embarrassing: if they are too afraid to actually re-style it for a day (with all potential losses), then they shouldn't bother with a static image. Sometimes you get too big to be cool.

Would probably result in millions of lost revenue because of the UI.. Although that number would be interesting to see.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by makeee » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:32 PM UTC

Popular DIY blog "The Crafted Life" is acquired by Kraft Cheese, rebrands to The Krafted Life, focuses solely on DIY tutorials that utilize Kraft cheese products: http://thecraftedlife.com

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by jkrems » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:33 PM UTC

hobarrera wrote: post #365

cies wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

.local is reserved for mDNS. I'm not sure why you can't just use the host's real FQDN.

Because you might want to have multiple vhosts running on localhost, separated by hostname.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by bhaumik » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:35 PM UTC

We added new mentors, including rms for iOS, Elon Musk, etc.

http://www.thinkful.com/mentors