List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by yaliceme » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

Space Rock - Build computer things that are nice to use, faster than you could before https://space-rock.meteor.com/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sycren » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:51 PM UTC

Fake Job Ad: MyAppConverter is seeking a new senior developer to open up their new San Francisco office in their expansion plans.

https://www.myappconverter.com/blog/senior-developer-wanted-...

$250,000 - $300,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

Join our new San Francisco office!

We’re looking for a Senior Developer to bring their talents to our brand new team. This opportunity is simply unmissable! Join the innovators in app conversion, and take your career to new heights.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Developer to join our expanding team.

MyAppConverter is seeking a talented Senior Developer to sit back, relax and have all of their work done for them. A lazy mindset is essential, and someone with a passion for the latest revolution in app conversion is a must.

Developer skill / responsibilities:

- No previous experience necessary.

- Excellent Java skills (drinking coffee from a mug/cup/thermos).

- Thumb twiddling expertise.

- A passion for the latest revolution in app conversion.

- Watching in silent awe.

- Enjoys boredom.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by lelf » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:52 PM UTC

TeslaMotors: No more parking tickets for Model S owners. Today we’re introducing: ticket-avoidance-mode. Here’s how it works: https://amp.twimg.com/v/cdad704b-5167-42bd-9fd7-a5c39fabf1f9

(c) https://twitter.com/teslamotors/status/583339439759310848

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by joombaga » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

mseri wrote: post #149

BetaMechazawa wrote: post #145

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Username/password to log in? Or is this a real service that put up this site just for today and requires an actual account?

try user: guest

also admin/letmein

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by dandrews » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

malkia wrote: post #474

pimlottc wrote: post #111

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

QEMM! Protected Mode! Unreal Mode! TSR! Ralph Brown's Interrupt List! Oh man! Had so much with my friends while in high-school trying to figure out what kind of weird graphics mode this cool game called "Scorched Earth" used... It wasn't 320x200 :)

That's "Ralf"!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by dEnigma » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:00 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #286

flurdy wrote: post #278

Google Actual Cloud platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o https://cloud.google.com/actual-cloud/

This comment looks even better with cloud-to-butt installed.

"ButtDrops™" Oh yes, I definitely don't regret installing this extension.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by hrayr » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:01 PM UTC

brianbreslin wrote: post #258

I may be accused of being a curmudgeon, but most of these aren't funny anymore. Companies are rarely funny, not sure why they keep doing this. /rant

Ah, I don't enjoy them either, but let them have fun. This is probably more for their employees morale than for the customers.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Taniwha » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:03 PM UTC

dezgeg wrote: post #28

Support for negative number of CPUs is implemented in the Linux kernel. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/31/994

I looked at that patch, it still divides by 0 when you have 0 CPUs, I hope Linus rejects it

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by timwiththebo » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

Adopt A Pothole: http://www.adoptapothole.co.ke/

Created by OkHi, a tech startup in Kenya that has a mission to give a physical address to the 4B people in the world who don't have one.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by andrewguenther » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:08 PM UTC

sukilot wrote: post #407

Already__Taken wrote: post #124

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For or against gTLDs Google should not be able to squat .dev is too generic to give to one company. Infact any one company squatting any gtld that isn't their registered trademark leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's just a game of "we have money therefor shut up." combined with "The world revolves around the USA"

Thought ICANN auctioned all the gTLDs. Also, The USA invented the Internet.

I hope you're joking about that second part....