List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sujjjith » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:53 AM UTC

http://www.shopclues.com/laggayi90percent-offsale.html?icid=...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by johnlbevan2 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:58 AM UTC

antimagic wrote: post #79

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...

waterboarding allowed on planes maybe?

(though with a 100ml limit)

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:59 AM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #58

Clippy is open source on Github - http://thebeebs.github.io/OfficeAssistant/

That's mean. I'd love to have the source code to Microsoft Agent. :(

At least there's floppy.js

Also, spoofing GitHub.com might piss them off.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by saralily » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:01 PM UTC

polemic wrote: post #88

Double bluff in today's New Zealand Herald: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti... The "April Fools' Day special" promised a new BMW to the first person who took their car and the front-page coupon to the dealership. Ms Marsh was first at the Newmarket car dealership this morning, arriving in her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir. She was swiftly rewarded with a new BMW 1 Series worth almost $50,000…

That is a perfect April Fools' day joke.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sklogic » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:05 PM UTC

faizmokhtar wrote: post #47

Gentoo website makeover. https://www.gentoo.org/

Disappointed. More than 4 colours.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by josteink » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:05 PM UTC

Cyanogenmod 12 nightlies April 1st build:

http://imgur.com/l6PV5x5

http://imgur.com/M9fRJpf

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by random_passerby » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:05 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #116

zaroth wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

moc.elgoog would have been much better social commentary on the gTLD explosion.

It would have been pretty impressive if they created a whole gTLD just for an April Fools joke.

indeed because "The evaluation fee is US$185,000."

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by m-i-l » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:06 PM UTC

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

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:07 PM UTC

codeulike wrote: post #217

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned Today eeryone's comments are being auto-edited to include conspiracy theory claptrap (added to end of whatever they wrote), and they've got an illuminati theme

Ah, the wonders of CSS. I bet they're choosing "random" phrases by trailing post ID characters.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by import » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:09 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.

.local reserved for special mDNS functionality http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicas...