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Ask HN: What April fool made you laugh today?

18 points by Andugal 5y ago

I'll start with Stack Overflow who always makes really good one. This year: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/31/time-to-get-on-trend-filters/

mzfr 5y ago
https://lichess.org/blog/YkYNyREAAB8Amiit/hackers-leak-lichess-source-code https://lichess.org/blog/YkYNyREAAB8Amiit/hackers-leak-liche...
onion2k 5y ago
I'm not sure it really counts as an April Fool's joke, but today's choice of song for https://www.heardle.app/ https://www.heardle.app/ is pretty inspired.
xvector 5y ago
Linus's new laptop review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A
freeCandy 5y ago
The VK_FOOL_printed_surface vulkan extension: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/the-latest-and-greatest-vulkan-extension-has-arrived/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/the-latest-and-greates...
ge96 5y ago
Yeah the SO one tripped me out, thought my graphics card was dying ha.
hahnchen 5y ago
I like the SO filters i hope they leave it in settings after april fools
- 999900000999 5y ago
  Agreed, a little jarring, but the retro windows theme is neat
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  Honestly Facebook (StackBook? BookOverflow?) theme is much more legible for my eyes than SO default theme.
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egberts1 5y ago
Lapsus$ leaked Linus’s latest kernel code.
hhsbdbdbdbdb 5y ago
The stack overflow one made me very angry. I didn't realize it was April fools and it kept reappearing every link I click cause I block cookies.
jshprentz 5y ago
April Fools' Day On The Web [1] compiles a list each year (starting in 2004). [1] https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/ https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/
midhem 5y ago
Using Godel Theorem to show that GDPR is impossible to enforce. https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rules-because-of-too-much-mathematical-complexity/ https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rule...
yearly 5y ago
Stackoverflow
gremlinsinc 5y ago
https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful now only allows pictures of Data from star trek, though someone has posted Data from Goonies and ...seems they'll allow that too.. lol.

18 points by Andugal 5y ago

I'll start with Stack Overflow who always makes really good one. This year: https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/31/time-to-get-on-trend-filters/

mzfr 5y ago

https://lichess.org/blog/YkYNyREAAB8Amiit/hackers-leak-lichess-source-code https://lichess.org/blog/YkYNyREAAB8Amiit/hackers-leak-liche...

onion2k 5y ago

I'm not sure it really counts as an April Fool's joke, but today's choice of song for https://www.heardle.app/ https://www.heardle.app/ is pretty inspired.

xvector 5y ago

Linus's new laptop review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A

freeCandy 5y ago

The VK_FOOL_printed_surface vulkan extension: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/the-latest-and-greatest-vulkan-extension-has-arrived/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/the-latest-and-greates...

ge96 5y ago

Yeah the SO one tripped me out, thought my graphics card was dying ha.

hahnchen 5y ago

I like the SO filters i hope they leave it in settings after april fools

999900000999 5y ago
Agreed, a little jarring, but the retro windows theme is neat
justsomehnguy 5y ago
Honestly Facebook (StackBook? BookOverflow?) theme is much more legible for my eyes than SO default theme.

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egberts1 5y ago

Lapsus$ leaked Linus’s latest kernel code.

hhsbdbdbdbdb 5y ago

The stack overflow one made me very angry. I didn't realize it was April fools and it kept reappearing every link I click cause I block cookies.

jshprentz 5y ago

April Fools' Day On The Web [1] compiles a list each year (starting in 2004). [1] https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/ https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/

midhem 5y ago

Using Godel Theorem to show that GDPR is impossible to enforce. https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rules-because-of-too-much-mathematical-complexity/ https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rule...

yearly 5y ago

Stackoverflow

gremlinsinc 5y ago

https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful now only allows pictures of Data from star trek, though someone has posted Data from Goonies and ...seems they'll allow that too.. lol.