List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Johnny_Brahms » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:10 PM UTC

diyorgasms wrote: post #191

faizmokhtar wrote: post #47

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

And the gopher mirror, too! I don't have a good reason, but I really like the gopher protocol. Cool to see someone go to the (minimal) effort it takes to make a gopher mirror.

I am just now writing a static site generator that generates a directory based website from a folder hierarchy. It is heavily inspired by gopher. No bling, no js (well, unintrusive js to make the directory listing sortable) and a focus on getting shit online. The pages are either plain text or generated through some templates using markdown.

I am in dire need to clean the code up, but I will put it on github sooner or later. It grew top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top without meeting in the middle :(

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by johnlbevan2 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:15 PM UTC

dexcs wrote: post #14

conroy wrote: post #11

Tinder for Uber* http://tinderforuber.com/ *I'm praying this is a joke

I wonder how many crazy entrepreneurs use april days for validating ideas they had without loosing they're credibility :)

Amazon Dash?

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by gmakkoulis » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:19 PM UTC

How Avocarrot Replaced Targeting Algorithms With 742 Real People

http://www.avocarrot.com/blog/how-avocarrot-replaced-targeti...

Announcing HERO, the Human-Enabled Relevancy Optimizer, to address one of the hardest challenges we faced yet.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by LukeB_UK » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:20 PM UTC

datenwolf wrote: post #153

Systemd is forking the Linux kernel: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community

This was simply a case of someone getting the systemdaemon name on github. It's not the systemd project.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by rip747 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:21 PM UTC

LouisRoR wrote: post #32

Coldfusion is making a huge comeback in the London Tech-Scene. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302185

it very well could:

CFWheels.org - https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels

and no, this isn't a joke. Full disclosure: I worked on and LOVE this project.

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Post by techstrategist » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:29 PM UTC

just150e wrote: post #198

pimlottc wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They've certainly gone to a lot of trouble writing support docs if it's not real: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_b...

Did you read those docs? > Note: You may need to increase your iPhone volume, since Dash Button uses ultrasonic tones to sync with your iPhone during setup. If prompted, drag the volume slider to the recommended level, at or above where it says Best. Ultrasonic tone sync?

Ultrasonic communication is also used by some of the 2nd screen tv apps.

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Post by IgnitedGeek » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:31 PM UTC

Facebook to acquire Meteor Announcement: http://joshowens.me/facebook-to-acquire-meteor/

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Post by phantom784 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:31 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #239

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.