Collect HN: Aprils Fools • Hacker News Board

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by Herwig » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:32 PM UTC

TechCrunch is making a big list too! http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-the-big-li...

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by izendejas » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:38 PM UTC

derrida wrote: post #80

Wikipedia is hilarious! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page

Ha! rtm, one of the YC partners, is mentioned in the "Did you know" section.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by bnmrrs » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:40 PM UTC

Thanks to the coming Canadian election Demeure was able to add a special rental property. http://demeure.com/special-offers/sussex. Come and stay in the former Prime Minister's house for only $3000/night!

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by jonkelly » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 12:47 PM UTC

Our small contribution to the genre: http://thisorthat.com/blog/breaking-scrappr-picks-up-410001-... Breaking News: Scrapper Gobbles Up $41.000001 Million Investment

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by tsenart » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:18 PM UTC

https://github.com/tsenart/fool.js

Just paste this before your body closes: // Uncomment the next line if you want the prank to happen only when the url hashtag is #april // if (document.location.hash.indexOf('april') > -1) document.body.style.webkitTransform = document.body.style.MozTransform = 'rotate(' + [45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, 315][Math.floor(Math.random() * 7)] + 'deg)';

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by joeblue » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:22 PM UTC

Hi Everyone, I am super excited to announce the release of The Hoffington Post: http://thehoffingtonpost.com The Internet Newspaper: 100% dedicated to David Hasselhoff.

It's better than his singing. We swear.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by ascendant » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:26 PM UTC

colinyoung wrote: post #123

tkahn6 wrote: post #100

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

Love this one. Best part is the hidden dialup sound and tags.

It's the slow-loading, grainy pictures that really take me back.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by ciupicri » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

GNOME 3.0 Rescheduled for September 2011 Release

http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2011-04-gnome-3.0-resche...

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by cstuder » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

yread wrote: post #147

th wrote: post #86

xkcd is 3D: http://xkcd.com/ Randall is accepting user-submitted 3D versions of each comic: http://xkcd.com/xk3d/ Unfortunately, it looks like there is no title text for 3D comics yet.

It is in the noscript tag, Opera shows it

As does Chrome.

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by jokermatt999 » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #51

joshu wrote: post #47

Is it just me or is none of this stuff any funny?

No, it's not just you. I despise this crap. I particularly hate the way /. always became "nothing but AFD jokes" on April 1, and I really, really hope the HN crowd never jumps on that particular bandwagon.

I do enjoy April Fool's, but it is probably for the best that it stays in this topic here.

As I've said before, you can go anywhere on the internet for humor, but intelligent discussion is harder to find.

Anyway, back to seeing what ridiculous things the internet is up to today.