List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

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Post by ai_ja_nai » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:36 PM UTC

Language translation company Translated releases a klingon version of its website: http://www.translated.net/tlh/

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by pamonrails » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:39 PM UTC

Removing support for credit cards in Kill Bill: http://killbill.io/blog/deprecating-support-debit-credit-car...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Rangi42 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

finnn wrote: post #8

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

I had already set up our computer to mirror-reverse all websites for today, so ironically com.google looks normal.

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Post by tie_ » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:43 PM UTC

Nokia HERE's first wearable tech - geo-intelligent kitty collar: http://360.here.com/2015/04/01/unveils-first-wearable-tech/

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Post by thefahim » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

Instacart: Self-driving Carbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzjkFiv6CPs

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by xyjprc » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:46 PM UTC

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…

Has anyone tried format c: ?

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by sukilot » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

Already__Taken wrote: post #124

finnn wrote: post #8

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

For or against gTLDs Google should not be able to squat .dev is too generic to give to one company. Infact any one company squatting any gtld that isn't their registered trademark leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's just a game of "we have money therefor shut up." combined with "The world revolves around the USA"

Thought ICANN auctioned all the gTLDs.

Also, The USA invented the Internet.

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Post by cmpaul » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

The latest in eSignatures: carrier pigeons. http://info.hellosign.com/avian

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Post by kyledrake » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

Neocities raises $400m at a $14b valuation https://neocities.org/blog/neocities-raises-400-million

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Post by sukilot » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

huxley wrote: post #290

random_passerby wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

indeed because "The evaluation fee is US$185,000." http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...

I wouldn't be so sure they wouldn't do that, after all: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel... "At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in the auction, according…

Motivation for changing the low order digits is different from the high order digits.