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Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?
I think we need to get a single source for all today's pratical jokes that are getting submitter to Hacker News. I thought we could use this post as a forum of sort. This will also allow for people to upvote their favorites and we can get a running tally of the best-of-the-best.
Thank you.
- adriand 17y agoShameless self promotion - http://tweetsworth.com/e http://tweetsworth.com/e Submitted it here for testing a few days ago but few people realized it was a joke.
- btilly 17y agoPicassa Lifesize isn't bad: http://picasa.google.com/lifesize.html http://picasa.google.com/lifesize.html
- marknutter 17y agoI find them all annoying. April 1st is basically my break from the internet.
- runevault 17y agoYoutube's textp. If you haven't seen it yet somehow, many of the videos where you normally pick the resolution of the video now has a textp option, kinda hoping they keep it past april 1st.
- rapind 17y agoprogressive text... so much better than interleaved text.
- rev087 17y agoWow, I'd love a linux command-line tool that does something like that!
- pshc 17y agomplayer!
- aw3c2 17y agoI am pretty sure you are joking but here is how to do it with mplayer. See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#aalib http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#aal... and below (on that page). libcaca: mplayer -vo caca yourvideofile aalib: mplayer -vo aa yourvideofile
- felideon 17y agoxkcd's command prompt for sure
- joshfinnie 17y agoMy favorite so far is XKCDs Command Prompt. There are so many easter eggs to find, it is definitely a time killer!
- pavel_lishin 17y agoAm I the only one that thought this, and then realized you could just look at the source code, and then realized that I'm too lazy?
- Torn 17y agoLooking at the source isn't lazy that's just good thinking -- time is precious! :) I went one step further after playing with it for 30 seconds and bypassed the source entirely: found a comment on reddit which listed all of the features and commands.
- Groxx 17y agoMeta-source-code-reading?
- CGamesPlay 17y agoType "i read the source code" into the prompt.
- ironkeith 17y agoI laughed at the reply to "cat".
- oscardelben 17y agoThe problem is that the more you put apart things because of laziness, the more you become lazy.
- rapind 17y agoGreat. Just wish it had bash completion.
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- cgranade 17y agoIt's not an April Fool Joke per se, but http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/april-fool/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/april-fool/ has to be the funniest thing I've seen in quite a few Aprils.
- henrikschroder 17y agoDo a Google search for anything and look at the stats for the search. Results 1 - 10 of about 397,000,000 for anything [definition]. (0.30 microfortnights)
- huherto 17y agoYou mean: "Do a Topeka search...." http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-com...
- Vivtek 17y ago0.64 times the velocity of an unladen swallow. That's pretty good!
- algorias 17y agoOnly works for the english version, though. I had to go to google.co.uk, since google.com redirects me to google.cl
- Cornify 17y agoPersonally I'm most excited about the paranormal romance "Unicorn School: The Sparkling". Start reading half-way down. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/psa-new-book-deal.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/psa-new-...
- reynolds 17y agoAm I the only one who hates April Fool's day on the web?
- lincolnq 17y agosorry, then this is not the thread for you :(
- yesimahuman 17y agoMaybe you just find it exhausting to have all these awesome things come out on this day only to have them rudely taken away only hours later.
- tibbon 17y agoYes
- joshu 17y agoyou are not alone.
- bokchoi 17y agoYes, it's obnoxious.
- bokchoi 17y agoDownvotes for the truth?
- pWneD 17y agoGoogle Translate for Animals, this is just hilarious http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/ http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoI humbly submit my own attempt at humor: http://blog.obsidianportal.com/?p=362 http://blog.obsidianportal.com/?p=362 It might be funny to anyone who has to deal with user-generated content.
- Goronmon 17y agohttp://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/mobile/ http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/mobile/ As a runner-up... http://www.cheapassgamer.com/ http://www.cheapassgamer.com/
- Groxx 17y agoCan the Blizzard games please be real? I want to out-surf and out-shoot a megalodon! I can feel the Epic right through the Internets!
- zaphar 17y agoI can honestly say Ars Technica's gets my vote. http://arstechnica.com/staff/nate/2010/04/tentacular-tentacular.ars http://arstechnica.com/staff/nate/2010/04/tentacular-tentacu...
- joshfinnie 17y agoNot sure if you noticed it or not, but the new logo is a very nice touch!
- scdlbx 17y agoLHC used to discover the Neutrinosaurus http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html
- tlrobinson 17y agoI'm pretty partial to our own, which includes a working implementation: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/04/01/solving-the-javascript-memory-management-problem/ http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/04/01/solving-the-javascr...
- tibbon 17y agoYou got me! I read that late last night and thought it was real....
- borism 17y agoeBay buys back Skype http://skypejournal.com/2010/04/ebay-buys-back-skype.html http://skypejournal.com/2010/04/ebay-buys-back-skype.html
- cperciva 17y agoI rather like Werner Vogel's 'AWS Import/Export for Legacy Storage Systems' joke -- once you read the text, it's very obviously a joke, but the title itself sounds rather plausible: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/04/aws_importexport_punch_cards.html http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/04/aws_importexport...
- mtinkerhess 17y agoReddit has a "turn admin on" link next to your username. When admin is on, you can change headlines, vote multiple times, see user's IP addresses and likelihood of being a bot or a spammer, and ban users in three different ways. And the background on comments pages is from the Sistene Chapel.
- O3d 17y agoThe Sistine Chapel Background is only in the Science SubReddit, which also has a lower-case t for the reddit icon. It got a chuckle out of me. :)
- arethuza 17y agoI rather liked the Y Permutator story - if for no other reason than it made me think whether it should have been C Combinator.
- halv0112 17y agoI like Atlassian fourwalls. Bringing foursquare to the enterprise with developer checkins. The site is funny. "Devlopers: use our API to write your own APIs". http://atlassian.com/fourwalls http://atlassian.com/fourwalls
- halv01122 17y agoHitler learns the truth about fourwalls: http://atlss.in/bMoCmm http://atlss.in/bMoCmm
- m0th87 17y agoMan arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm ...at least I hope it's an April Fools joke, or we're seriously fucked. EDIT: Actually this wins: there's a vowel outage at gmail http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.ht...
- yanw 17y agoYouTube's TEXTp they should keep that in the labs projects, and the Google translate for animals was quite funny.
- kez 17y agoThe Independent's piece on the Circle Line (London Underground) being turned into the second Large Hadron Collider. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii-planned-for-circle-line-1932744.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii...
- chasingsparks 17y agoI don't know my favorite, but I do know my least favorite: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.kernel.org/
- hubb 17y agohttp://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/equipmentpotency.xml http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/equipmentpotenc...
- andywood 17y agoHilarious! It took me a few minutes to notice all the subtle puns everywhere.
- turnersauce 17y agoFor any DJs out there, the "Enable Auto DJ" button in Mixxx changes to "Enable Pee Break Mode" on April 1st. http://www.mixxx.org/ http://www.mixxx.org/
- dpcan 17y agoI always like trying to figure out which of the products http://www.thinkgeek.com http://www.thinkgeek.com made up for April Fools.
- thehigherlife 17y agoi wish the iCade was real
- beeber 17y agoliking this re justin bieber (beeber?) http://gruvr.com/blog/justin-bieber-to-change-spelling-of-surname/ http://gruvr.com/blog/justin-bieber-to-change-spelling-of-su...
- msluyter 17y agoGoogle's new java annotations are rather funny: http://code.google.com/p/gag/ http://code.google.com/p/gag/
- hairsupply 17y agoI was going to say this too. You can download the bits and play with them. Its impressive that its all actually implemented/documented.
- compay 17y agoCanned Unicorn Meat: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/unicorn-meat.shtml http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/unicorn-meat.shtml
- hubb 17y agoif you've been following the starcraft 2 beta, and you know a little bit about professional starcraft 1, then you'll probably find teamliquid.net's SC2 promod (http://www.sc2promod.com/ http://www.sc2promod.com/) hilarious
- dbz 17y agoI made the IT guy find the 10 lirpa viruses my anti-virus software was picking up but wasn't able to remove. Funny thing; he never found em =/
- dfranke 17y agohttp://www.freelunchproject.com/ http://www.freelunchproject.com/
- crbailey 17y agoIf you're a Settlers of Catan fan, check out the DealBase deal on the Isle of Catan: http://www.dealbase.com/Isle-of-Catan/Hotel-Catan-deals/DealBase-Exclusive-Upgrade-Largest-248691 http://www.dealbase.com/Isle-of-Catan/Hotel-Catan-deals/Deal...
- jalammar 17y agoI'll have to make this a shameless plug, but it's probably the only way any of you will get to know about this. My startup, Qaym.com is a restaurant rating site in Arabic. We're located in Saudi Arabia. April fools isn't a big thing here or in the Arab world in general. But people know the concept. Today we announced that we're changing the site to become exclusively a camel rating site. We even made a logo: http://blog.qaym.com/2010/04/blog-post.html http://blog.qaym.com/2010/04/blog-post.html And a homepage to boost: http://www.qaym.com/ http://www.qaym.com/ Most people got it off the bat. Many were confused. And a couple were actually upset, even after they've figured out it was a joke!
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- Malk0lm 17y agoKernel.org and their upsidedownternet. ¡unɟ sʎɐʍןɐ s,ʇı
- aneesh 17y agoLet me Google that for you (lmgtfy.com) links point you to Bing search results.
- splat 17y agoThe article "Orthographic Correlations in Astrophysics" by Zuntz, Zlosnik, Zunckel, and Zwarf on the arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064 http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064
- jolie 17y agoI like Tremulous Exclusively Going to Xbox Live: http://tremulous.net/ http://tremulous.net/
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- mookster 17y agoYahoo! CEO Carol Bartz to be fined by FCC? http://zomg.yahoo.com/fcc-to-possibly-fine-yahoo-ceo-for-swearing-on-tv http://zomg.yahoo.com/fcc-to-possibly-fine-yahoo-ceo-for-swe...
- peter_severin 17y agoNew Eclipse logo: http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100401_newlogo.php http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100401_newlogo.ph...
- dazmax 17y agoStack Overflow made everyone's profile pics into unicorns. It was the only one that got me today, 'cause I just noticed my own at first.
- shivam14 17y agoCisco IOS QoS configuration guide - flesh tone recognition to classify and monitor suspect pornographic images http://packetlife.net/media/blog/attachments/413/nbar_flesh_tone.html http://packetlife.net/media/blog/attachments/413/nbar_flesh_...
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