List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by vgabios » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 9:58 PM UTC

malkia wrote: post #474

pimlottc wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

Mode X and related: programming VGA registers to do what int 10h mode 13h didn't offer. Bonus points for flipping video pages or cycling the palette as to not cause tearing.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by spb » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:13 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

Since LKML seems to be overloaded right now: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142784405100723&w=2

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by drewry » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:29 PM UTC

The future of programming languages, a long jumbled series of HODOR to create functional scripts. http://hodor-lang.org

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by spb » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:49 PM UTC

mcbetz wrote: post #136

Sacha Greif's "Discover Meteor" announces a print edition with "Component-Oriented Architecture", "three-way binding" and integrated package management system to "remove" and "add" new pages: https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/discover-meteor-print-ed...

So like the AD&D Monster Manual then?

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by joshu » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:13 PM UTC

joshu wrote: post #385

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

I agree. The Essenes of s good April Fool's is something that is mostly believable. None of this fools anyone, it is just silly.

I probably shouldn't post via audio. Looks like I am drunk.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by spb » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:24 PM UTC

m-i-l wrote: post #238

Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OS: http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/

That is one thirsty fucking site. Something popping up every five seconds saying "Subscribe! Retweet! Look at meeeeee!!"

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by steven_pack » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:28 PM UTC

Government to sell-off playgrounds - kids don't play outside anyway. Proceeds to be used to build digital parks inside Minecraft.

http://daily.koalasafe.com/

Got picked up by a few places in Australia.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by andrewguenther » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:59 PM UTC

testingonprod wrote: post #520

andrewguenther wrote: post #510

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

He's right though. You may be too young.

Except he's not right. ARPANET was one aspect of what would become the Internet. The public Internet as we know it is an amalgamation of technologies which were developed by the U.S., Great Britain, and France. You really can't claim that the U.S. invented the Internet.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by VelNZ » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:59 PM UTC

Grouber from Groupon: http://www.groupon.com/pages/grouber

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by VelNZ » Thu, Apr 02, 2015, 12:27 AM UTC

Razer - Project McFly Hovering Mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCx5gjAmqI