List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by chaimkut » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:59 AM UTC

Glide to be acquired by Apple for $430 million, will open an R&D center in Jerusalem

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by BetaMechazawa » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 7:59 AM UTC

finnn wrote: post #8

https://com.google - Google showing off their new gTLD in a silly manner.

Is it me or does everyone and their mother have a gTLD these days? I would not take any company that uses a gTLD serious at all.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by TilmanGriesel » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:00 AM UTC

Introducing PlayStation Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPUaLpNcMY

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Graham24 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:01 AM UTC

I do not believe that the University of Leicester is renaming itself the King Richard University.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/richard-iii-t...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by tagawa » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:01 AM UTC

Redact.js for ultimate web performance:

https://codepo8.github.io/redact.js/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by shultays » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:02 AM UTC

sanxiyn wrote: post #38

Samsung announces the world's first IoT smart knife, Galaxy BLADE edge, made for the modern chef with cutting-edge technology. http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/galaxy-blade-edge-chefs-ed...

They had to include a warning about it is being aprils fool

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by faizmokhtar » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:03 AM UTC

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

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by trainwreckme » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:04 AM UTC

Joylent Green - a powdered food replacement made from people

http://joylent.eu

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by aroman » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:04 AM UTC

masida wrote: post #39

wippler wrote: post #26

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

Amazon Dash Button https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button

Not sure if you were being cheeky or not, but that's not an April Fool's joke.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by conradfr » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 8:04 AM UTC

SpeedRunners (a game on Steam) is running with graphics like 320x200 & 16 colors, and 8 bits music.

You have to restore an old version of some files to play ...