Collect HN: Aprils Fools • Hacker News Board

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by mbreese » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 9:37 AM UTC

ajaimk wrote: post #101

nedwin wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why was this downvoted? I'm not a developer, is there some kind of humour I've missed here?

It wasn't me but occasionally the mouse slips and hits the wrong button. It could also just be trolls.

Or it could be the "AWESOME" part... Still, I'd love to see a link too.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by davweb » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 9:42 AM UTC

Eric Lippert introduces some new features in C#:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/04/01/compo...

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by dchest » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 9:43 AM UTC

I launched "I Read Like" http://iwl.me/read/

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by riprock » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:06 AM UTC

Blizzard Entertainment's April Fools

starcraft:

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/console/

warcraft:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon-helper/

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon/tomb-of-immortal-da...

diablo:

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/horadrapp/

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by sktrdie » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:20 AM UTC

Is this an Aprils fools joke? If yes it should be submitted under itself.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by marcamillion » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:22 AM UTC

nfriedly wrote: post #69

brlewis wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I don't have FF4 on my Ubuntu laptop yet, but my testing with telnet says it's working. If you have the extension installed please check for me: http://ourdoings.com/2008-04-01 should redirect you to a picture of llamas ignoring April Fools Day if you've turned on DNF, otherwise it shows a fake "OpenID Support to be Removed" blog post from a prior April Fools day. EDIT: One reply saying if it worked would be…

It works - I saw the lamas!

In all honesty, I am struggling to figure out if this is an April's Fools Joke in and of itself, or if this is legit. The comments definitely don't help much.

Can someone just be explicit with it.

I am not running FF, if that matters.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by arethuza » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:22 AM UTC

tkahn6 wrote: post #100

Hulu 1995 throwback complete with based layout. http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

Speaking of table based layout - ever checked what HN uses?

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by danssig » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:24 AM UTC

snprbob86 wrote: post #112

NZ_Matt wrote: post #33

Air New Zealand have introduced "pay what you weigh" http://promos.airnz.co.nz/payweigh/

Sorry, my bad ... It was Carl, he's new. This was an April Fools prank, thanks for all the fun feedback. Glad that we could give (most of) you a laugh. Have a great weekend! sigh political correctness sucks.

Are fatties covered by PC now? I thought that was the only group you could legitimately slag off?

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by marcamillion » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:27 AM UTC

gizzlon wrote: post #121

vyrotek wrote: post #79

Voting things up on http://www.StackOverflow.com seems to display colorful dancing unicorns now.

=) Guess this is the day to post stuff to SO

Funnily enough, I have been seeing people being more generous with upvotes.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by St-Clock » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 10:45 AM UTC

Seth_Kriticos wrote: post #120

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ drops back to CLI today, it seems.

Try various commands on their cli for some interesting feedback (e.g., vim, emacs, rm -rf).

Btw, someone downvoted a previous poster who said exactly that. The post was deleted though :-(