List of April Fools' Day Announcements • Hacker News Board

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Post by bvanvugt » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:41 PM UTC

Share underwear with the world - MeUndies introduces the #ReUndies program.

https://www.meundies.com/videos/reundies

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by Chinjut » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:41 PM UTC

JamyDev wrote: post #346

rcarmo wrote: post #5

CERN researchers confirm the existence of the Force http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researche...

For being the people who created the internet their website is rather slow...

You mean, "created the World Wide Web".

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by carlosgg » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

Dirk Nowitzki announces he is retiring

http://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2015/4/1/8320117/dirk-nowitzki-...

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by bo1024 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:50 PM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #336

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…

How is that April Fools? The offer was serious and they honored it. It's not like e.g. offering all of YouTube on DVDs.

The joke is on all the people who thought it wasn't serious.

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Post by sisivee » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

+1, thanks for creating this.

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Post by babuskov » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

finnn wrote: post #8

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

Type "WTF?" in the search box and go to image search ;)

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by babuskov » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #456

finnn wrote: post #8

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

Type "WTF?" in the search box and go to image search ;)

Correction. All images are reversed.

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Post by krylon » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 6:00 PM UTC

faizmokhtar wrote: post #47

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

"The second phase of the project to get Gentoo Linux to a wider user base will involve the creation of floppy disk sets containing a compact version of the operating system and a selection of software essentials. It is estimated that sets could be created using less than 700 disks each and sponsorship is currently being sought."

Having very recently had the, uhm, pleasure of installing MS DOS 6.22 on an old PC using floppy disks (3.5" disks, actually, which aren't all that floppy), and thus having a clear memory of how hard it was to find just three freaking disks at our company, I recoil in horror at the thought of having to juggle hundreds of disks. Or finding a recent computer with a floppy drive.

The idea is hilarious, though.

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Post by skynetv2 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

Humble bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo

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Post by mmanfrin » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 6:04 PM UTC

flurdy wrote: post #294

TeMPOraL wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment looks even better with cloud-to-butt installed.

:) You have to be alert with the my butt extension installed though. Only a few days ago I answered a stack overflow question where I added a link with the word cloud in it. Unfortunately the extension changed the URL when I edited the raw text. Luckily I realised quickly when I double checked if the link worked and it 404ed...

I answered a question with the word cloud in it, and when I posted I saw 'butt' and thought I had accidentally copy/pasted wrong, so I Went back to edit, BUT THEN I SAW IT AGAIN and edited 3 more times before realizing that it just 'wasnt saving' because it was saving, I just had the extension on.

I felt dumb.