List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by anonymfus » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:03 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

Year ago on April Fools' Day /r/europe added "thanks to Putin" to the end of every submission title and it fitted perfectly.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Vaanir » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

http://www.reddit.com/r/android and http://www.reddit.com/r/apple swapped their CSS.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by octatoan » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

Vaanir wrote: post #312

http://www.reddit.com/r/android and http://www.reddit.com/r/apple swapped their CSS.

As did /r/guitar and /r/bass, and /r/AncientGreek and /r/latin.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by amyjess » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:09 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

http://www.reddit.com/r/subredditdrama

SRD is "banned".

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by zcdziura » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

ericlang wrote: post #272

raverbashing wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snapchat payment system doesn't look like a good idea, unless you want the payment to disappear after a certain time

Wait... snapchat did release a payment system.

That's the joke.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Jedd » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:13 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 :)

To assist with you're credibility:

"their"

And 'losing', 'April', missing 'fools' (or 'first of').

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by huxley » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

conroy wrote: post #12

- Game of Thrones clue - Power Wheels Desert Drifters - Steam-powered Gaming Cabinet - Voltron Cat Condo - and more... http://www.thinkgeek.com/

My favourite Think Geek April Fools was the 2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure:

http://www.wired.com/2010/10/2001-a-space-odyssey-monolith-a...

(which they did end up selling due to demand)

"It's Full of Stars!"

"Zero Points of Articulation"

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by noipv4 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #111

maaaats wrote: post #20

MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input…

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...

did you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive. Should I make it a master or a slave on the ATA bus? Make sure the Turbo button is pressed, if Doom is slow to load!

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by eigenrick » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

AlexMuir wrote: post #186

LinkPlug wrote: post #182

AngularJS + React Merger http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react-merger/

How did they not call it Rectangular??

"That's way better than what I had"

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by adrusi » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #66

wippler wrote: post #26

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

Wow, that must be costing them a fortune. This is the biggest example of conspicuous consumption I have ever seen.

The be vendors that offer the buttons for their products are probably financing the whole thing. They'll also be the ones paying for the buttons, as opposed to customers. Imagine how great it would be for a paper towel company to make buying its towels a single button press (with high coolness factor) whereas any other brand would require a trip to the store, or at least 2 minutes to order on amazon.

They could just automatically include the device in some shipments.