Hear. Hear. I promised myself today that I would upvote the general thread this year that reminds the community not to let the front page of HN get filled with

Hear. Hear. I promised myself today that I would upvote the general thread this year that reminds the community not to let the front page of HN get filled with April Fools jokes. (There has been a thread for the same purpose each of the last three years.) I like a good joke as much as anyone, but we can keep links to the good stuff in this thread, and let the front page go on being mostly about the year-round core topics of HN. Just in case someone here hasn't seen it, there is a link to a listing of the top 100 April Fools hoaxes of all time http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/ http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/ from the Museum of Hoaxes, of which my favorite is the 1957 BBC story about the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/new...