List of April Fools' Day Announcements

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302010

by conroy • 11 years ago

592 538 11 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.

conroy7• 11 years ago

Introducing the new face of Search — Google Panda

http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2015/04/introducing-ne...

pimlottc6• 11 years ago

This gets my early vote for most likely to become a reality.

conroy7• 11 years ago

The New Audi A8

http://www.audi.jp/gohan/

wwwhizz2• 11 years ago

In Japan, you never know..

mdekkers2• 11 years ago

lol, in japan, a new car comes with a branded spankpaddle

forlulz• 11 years ago

Gee, thanks for that. Next time I'm scooping cooked rice out for dinner I would hope that the other occupants of the house have not used it as a spank paddle.

rcarmo• 11 years ago

CERN researchers confirm the existence of the Force

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researche...

sanoli2• 11 years ago

"...Kenobi's seminal paper "May the Force be with EU" – a strong argument that his experiment should be built in Europe – persuaded the CERN Council to finance..."

JamyDev2• 11 years ago

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

Chinjut• 11 years ago

You mean, "created the World Wide Web".

johnl1479• 11 years ago

This is my favorite today so far

With the research ongoing, many at CERN are already predicting that the Force will awaken later this year.

conroy7• 11 years ago

Share a Reaction

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2015/03/chrome-selfie-share...

conroy7• 11 years ago

You can play Pac-Man in Google Maps right now

http://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-play-pac-man-in-google-m...

concerto2• 11 years ago

Is it an April Fool if you can actualy do it? More like an early Easter Egg?

LeoPanthera2• 11 years ago

Blogspam url?

gbraad• 11 years ago

zoom in to the map select the Pacman overlay. If it can't create a playfield it offers a 'I'm feeling lucky'. I ended up at https://www.google.com/maps/@-22.975078,-43.1923318,18z/data...

kissickas2• 11 years ago

Ingress (the game by Google's Niantic Labs) also replaced some of its graphics with those of Pacman https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/8TQAYXzvQpB

finnn• 11 years ago

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

BetaMechazawa3• 11 years ago

Is it me or does everyone and their mother have a gTLD these days? I would not take any company that uses a gTLD serious at all.

jitl• 11 years ago

what's wrong with having gTLD? Seeing lots of this new TLD hate, I want to understand the reasoning.

codecondo• 11 years ago

http://try.everyone/ http://and.theirmother/

wwwhizz2• 11 years ago

Yes, let's not take Google serious.

mmahemoff• 11 years ago

You wouldn't take Google seriously? I'm sure they didn't fork out just for today, they will be using it for their products at some point.

In a few years, it will probably the standard domain for big corps. iphone.apple, macbook.apple, etc. It looks weird now (or an intranet address at best), but once people get used to it, it will be recognisable as a domain just as any.com is now.

Not to mention, an explosion of TLDs for reselling (.futbol .enterprise etc) means people will just equate . on billboards etc with a domain.

zaroth3• 11 years ago

moc.elgoog would have been much better social commentary on the gTLD explosion.

pimlottc6• 11 years ago

It would have been pretty impressive if they created a whole gTLD just for an April Fools joke.

Already__Taken• 11 years ago

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"

icebraining4• 11 years ago

How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com?

People here give way too much importance to TLDs.

sukilot4• 11 years ago

Thought ICANN auctioned all the gTLDs.

Also, The USA invented the Internet.

kissickas2• 11 years ago

I always thought "do a barrel roll" was kind of stupid, but it's cool that it still works on com.google.

CatsoCatsoCatso• 11 years ago

Strangely "tilt" sets it back to normal but keeps the domain, then when you change the search query it flicks back to backwards mode.

TeMPOraL5• 11 years ago

Zerg Rush is broken though; Zerglings attack the air, dealing damage to DOM elements on the other side of the screen.

stanmancan• 11 years ago

That actually reminded me of a bug I submitted a while ago. It appears to be fixed now, but I was pretty surprised at the answer they provided at the time. When instant search first came out, anything that auto-completed to "do a barrel roll" would initiate the animation. It's such a popular term that simply typing "Do a" was enough to trigger it as it was the first result.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/R5A...

umangd2• 11 years ago

One thing I noticed is that the search doesn't modify the URL as it does on google.com. Wondering why?

y0ghur7_xxx• 11 years ago

it's in an iframe

Rangi42• 11 years ago

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

babuskov2• 11 years ago

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

babuskov2• 11 years ago

Correction. All images are reversed.

conroy7• 11 years ago

Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/smartbox-by-inbox-mai...

thomasahle• 11 years ago

This's gotta be the most well produced April Fools video I've seen.

aladine• 11 years ago

I love the video so much. Very convincing and surreal

crivabene• 11 years ago

Reminds me of one of the jokes they did in 2007: Gmail Paper. Loved this one!

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/gmail-paper-print-y... https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/paper/

bhandziuk• 11 years ago

Was that Kelsey Grammer narrating?!

anoncow• 11 years ago

Do you know whee the song in the end is from - "Let's do something new"?

conroy7• 11 years ago

Tinder for Uber*

http://tinderforuber.com/

*I'm praying this is a joke

dexcs2• 11 years ago

I wonder how many crazy entrepreneurs use april days for validating ideas they had without loosing they're credibility :)

johnlbevan22• 11 years ago

Amazon Dash?

Jedd2• 11 years ago

To assist with you're credibility:

"their"

And 'losing', 'April', missing 'fools' (or 'first of').

cconcepts• 11 years ago

That one actually made me laugh out loud

ZoFreX• 11 years ago

And there's also Uber for Tinder! http://uberfortinder.com/

dsjoerg• 11 years ago

uber for tinder for uber! for tinder!

conroy7• 11 years ago

- Game of Thrones clue

- Power Wheels Desert Drifters

- Steam-powered Gaming Cabinet

- Voltron Cat Condo

- and more...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/

huxley4• 11 years ago

My favourite Think Geek April Fools was the 2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure:

http://www.wired.com/2010/10/2001-a-space-odyssey-monolith-a...

(which they did end up selling due to demand)

"It's Full of Stars!"

"Zero Points of Articulation"

rxin• 11 years ago

Spark 2.0: Rearchitecting Spark for Mobile Platforms

https://databricks.com/blog/2015/04/01/spark-2-rearchitectin...

This is probably among the most technical, nerdy April fool's.

eranation• 11 years ago

It's actually one of the few that one day might not be a joke...

lunaru• 11 years ago

Here's one we did targeted to our (customer support) audience:

"Please type your reply above this line" (http://blog.reamaze.com/2015/04/01/please-type-your-reply-ab...)

ljk• 11 years ago

google japan's new keyboard

https://www.google.co.jp/ime/___o/

mlex• 11 years ago

Pay attention to the URL as you scroll down the page. ;)

shultays2• 11 years ago

I don't know much about html/js, how is it done without #? Why doesn't it trigger a page change

kevinburke• 11 years ago

Changed my HN title bar from gray to blue

kingzain• 11 years ago

Google purchases Dubai's world of islands to reconfigure into Google-shaped floating cities.

http://inhabitat.com/google-purchases-dubais-world-of-island...

dezgeg2• 11 years ago

MS-DOS for Lumia smartphones: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/

maaaats• 11 years ago

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. Can use "phone <nr>" to call someone, send e-mails. If i launch "internet" it plays an old modem sound before launching the stock OS browser.

CDing into C:\GAMES\RPS and launching RPS.exe first gives you a question about using "PC Speaker" or "Sound Blaster", and then how many colors you would like. Then the game crashes with "Error! Not enough memory, RPS needs 641KB conventional memory (...)" and then a quote "---Cortana: That's odd, 640 K ought to be enough for anyone", haha. After that, it guides you through using mem and loadhigh to get the game to run. And of course, RPS is Rock-Paper-Scissors in 8-bit glory.

The camera is an ASCII-camera, using letters with only a few colors, or CGA mode. Here are two selfies I took http://imgur.com/a/deajM

The command help gives all useable command: CD, CLS, COLOR, DATE, DIR, ECHO, EDIT (edit autoxec.bat for instance), EXIT, FORMAT, HELP, LOADHIGH, MEM, PATH, TIME, TYPE, VER.

endgame• 11 years ago

That's beautiful, and probably an improvement on most smartphone OSes.

dickvdbrink• 11 years ago

Haha, love it this is a briljant joke! :)

wz10002• 11 years ago

I'd love to have something like that if it ran bash or even Powershell.

creshal4• 11 years ago

Android has shells, and you can put arbitrary distributions in a chroot, if it's rooted.

pimlottc6• 11 years ago

    SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2

Ah, the memories...

raverbashing2• 11 years ago

Of course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)

noipv42• 11 years ago

did you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive. Should I make it a master or a slave on the ATA bus? Make sure the Turbo button is pressed, if Doom is slow to load!

malkia• 11 years ago

QEMM! Protected Mode! Unreal Mode! TSR! Ralph Brown's Interrupt List! Oh man!

Had so much with my friends while in high-school trying to figure out what kind of weird graphics mode this cool game called "Scorched Earth" used... It wasn't 320x200 :)

recondite• 11 years ago

Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring it out and getting a certain game to work as pure joy.

Conversely, the feeling when I changed something incorrectly (without backups of the original file, of course) and the system error'd out during boot - sheer panic.

emmanueloga_• 11 years ago

dos4gw.exe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G

univbe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE

oh my!

Aissen• 11 years ago

Awesome! Would this have happened under Balmer ? Nadella is truly changing Microsoft into a "cool" company.

mynameisvlad• 11 years ago

Yes, of course it would have. It's not like this required executive approval to do. It was probably some WP team that wanted to have a little fun.

adolfojp• 11 years ago

Most likely. Balmer was known for his shenanigans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-l1iGKvcog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Zd3HYKCRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgSJxZZfIA4

kenrick95• 11 years ago

  cd games
  cd rps
  rps.exe

and you'll find that it can't be run, but Cortana will guide you to "fix" it. After fixing it, Rock-Paper-Scissor game will run.

Sharlin• 11 years ago

Apparently WIN works too.

guinness74• 11 years ago

  wolf3d -goobers

If that works, I'm sold.

yAnonymous• 11 years ago

The interface is a significant improvement compared to Windows 8.

creshal4• 11 years ago

So would be Microsoft Bob!

Intermernet2• 11 years ago

Does it do EDLIN and DEBUG ?

pepijndevos• 11 years ago

Is it a full DOS emulator that could run other games, or just a simple shell?

ck2• 11 years ago

Needs BASIC or GWBASIC

noipv42• 11 years ago

neither, I want BASICA and QBASIC. Do you have the 5 1/4" floppy drive. Will it read the 1.2MB disks or just the 360KB disk?

smacktoward• 11 years ago

But will it run Lotus 1-2-3? The saying was always "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run..."

xyjprc• 11 years ago

Has anyone tried format c: ?

arnorhs• 11 years ago

TIL there are people on HN that use windows phone! :)

seanhandley• 11 years ago

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson...

Jeremy Clarkson joins campaign for fossil fuel divestment

m_sc• 11 years ago

Don't know if april fools but the banner at the top: http://www.topgear.com/uk/

codeulike4• 11 years ago

More than 1.5 million Britons signed an online petition calling for Clarkson to be reinstated and for a relaxation of the laws against assault in cases that could be demonstrated to involve banter.

Practically true.

InternetGiant• 11 years ago

A major ebook announcement. Science Fiction writer Charlie Stross releases an reader app to counter Clean App.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/a-major-...

jgifford• 11 years ago

A new Startup Vitamins product

http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-condoms-trip...

1729• 11 years ago

Uber-like on demand cab service in India launches an on demand helicopter service https://www.olacabs.com/air

icebraining4• 11 years ago

It's 404ing.

asimaskit• 11 years ago

https://www.olacabs.com/ola-air

wippler• 11 years ago

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

masida• 11 years ago

Amazon Dash Button https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button

aroman• 11 years ago

Not sure if you were being cheeky or not, but that's not an April Fool's joke.

simonk• 11 years ago

Dash is real.

Cshelton• 11 years ago

Hey, I actually thought it was an April Fools joke as well, but then realized that we've gotten to the point where it is crucial to have 1 day delivery for toilet paper...Honestly, it's cool, but from a sense of self-pride...no. This is how civilizations collapse...let's be honest.

hobarrera5• 11 years ago

That's a real product, and was actually announced March 31st.

sneak4• 11 years ago

Wow, that must be costing them a fortune. This is the biggest example of conspicuous consumption I have ever seen.

theonekeith• 11 years ago

I think it's likely they are partnering with P&G at least on promoting this.

adrusi• 11 years ago

The be vendors that offer the buttons for their products are probably financing the whole thing. They'll also be the ones paying for the buttons, as opposed to customers. Imagine how great it would be for a paper towel company to make buying its towels a single button press (with high coolness factor) whereas any other brand would require a trip to the store, or at least 2 minutes to order on amazon.

They could just automatically include the device in some shipments.

M82• 11 years ago

This is embarrassing: if they are too afraid to actually re-style it for a day (with all potential losses), then they shouldn't bother with a static image. Sometimes you get too big to be cool.

91bananas2• 11 years ago

I completely disagree. They run a system that is arguably very complex. I would not want to restyle my entire app (for a day) (so people like you would approve of it). They took something that was low risk, made it happen across the board, reliably. Site still works. It drums up chatter around offices. Makes people visit. Enjoy your misery.

kevando• 11 years ago

Would probably result in millions of lost revenue because of the UI.. Although that number would be interesting to see.

general_failure2• 11 years ago

WOW, just wow. Will they not be losing money this way?

netrus• 11 years ago

Short term, long term.

"Hey, have you seen the Amazon.com homepage today?" - someone in every office everywhere today.

LeoPanthera2• 11 years ago

It's bad enough having a full-page single-image image map (I'd almost forgotten image maps were a thing), but to use a jpeg is just offensive.

concerto2• 11 years ago

Not on the Highstreet. Happy Hatchery - hatch at home eggs ordered online.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/happyhatchery

dezgeg2• 11 years ago

Support for negative number of CPUs is implemented in the Linux kernel.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/31/994

ikeboy2• 11 years ago

Don't tempt physicists. Remember how it turned out last time with the semi-dead cat.

Taniwha• 11 years ago

I looked at that patch, it still divides by 0 when you have 0 CPUs, I hope Linus rejects it

spb3• 11 years ago

Since LKML seems to be overloaded right now: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142784405100723&w=2

LaurentGh• 11 years ago

http://blog.sunrise.am/post/115135988899/introducing-clippy-...

Sunrise joining Microsoft, they just added Clippy to their calendar

coldelectrons• 11 years ago

Michael Bay will be doing a reboot of Casa Blanca.

vidyesh• 11 years ago

Amazon India

LucID : Lucid dream analyser wrist band http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322727_2/278-8747141-...

Silicon Styler : Electronic Moustache Styler http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187323127_2?ie=UTF8&node...

Biovap Mark III : Bio-waste disintegrator. Processes kitchen waste to scented vapour as air-freshner http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322547_2?ie=UTF8&node...

QuickClean : Electronic dry cleaner for 'dry-clean only' fabric http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322867_2?ie=UTF8&node...

Exotic Amazon : Exotic pets from Madagascar/wildlife. Pair of two species wit heach purchase. http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322987_2?ie=UTF8&node...

LouisRoR• 11 years ago

Coldfusion is making a huge comeback in the London Tech-Scene. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302185

sjwright• 11 years ago

It should make a comeback -- in the pure open source form of Lucee. It's like the PHP of Java.

rip747• 11 years ago

it very well could:

CFWheels.org - https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels

and no, this isn't a joke. Full disclosure: I worked on and LOVE this project.

jackpirate• 11 years ago

Bashing Haskell: Reimplementing Haskell's Parsec library within the unix shell

SIGBOVIK2015 paper: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed/raw/master/sigbovik201...

github repo: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed

dotdi• 11 years ago

A drone from OnePlus https://oneplus.net/gamechanger (although they pitch it as an April Fools', they actually sell a limited quantity)

Malstrond• 11 years ago

Seems to be a rebranded Cheerson CX-10.

Systemic• 11 years ago

I liked that in their graph on the 3rd from last page their drone had the tallest bar which at first sight looks like it would indicate it is the best, when actually it just has the highest portability, with terrible agility and control.

sandaru1• 11 years ago

Checkout our newest product - an online medical reference. The main feature would be our new creative UI that would let users navigate the site easily and comfortably with a nostalgic feeling. http://www.explainmedicine.com/

sanxiyn• 11 years ago

Samsung announces the world's first IoT smart knife, Galaxy BLADE edge, made for the modern chef with cutting-edge technology.

http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/galaxy-blade-edge-chefs-ed...

shultays2• 11 years ago

They had to include a warning about it is being aprils fool

sredfern• 11 years ago

This is coming from the company who brings you the "IoT" clothes washing machine...

Also whats with curved phones?

recentdarkness• 11 years ago

Now that is what I call cutting edge! :D

chaimkut• 11 years ago

Glide to be acquired by Apple for $430 million, will open an R&D center in Jerusalem

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

TilmanGriesel• 11 years ago

Introducing PlayStation Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPUaLpNcMY

Graham24• 11 years ago

I do not believe that the University of Leicester is renaming itself the King Richard University.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/richard-iii-t...

tagawa• 11 years ago

Redact.js for ultimate web performance:

https://codepo8.github.io/redact.js/

faizmokhtar• 11 years ago

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

jtaylor100• 11 years ago

That's actually pretty cool

sneak4• 11 years ago

ANSI art adds 5hp

drincruz• 11 years ago

Right, I actually like it and wouldn't mind if that stayed up for a while.

avinassh• 11 years ago

Looks slick! Are there any templates/libraries available to build such site? The initial loading of text looks pretty nice.

mben• 11 years ago

Check this bootstrap theme: https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

Tsiolkovsky• 11 years ago

Damn, I love this. Best I've seen so far today.

diyorgasms• 11 years ago

And the gopher mirror, too! I don't have a good reason, but I really like the gopher protocol. Cool to see someone go to the (minimal) effort it takes to make a gopher mirror.

Johnny_Brahms2• 11 years ago

I am just now writing a static site generator that generates a directory based website from a folder hierarchy. It is heavily inspired by gopher. No bling, no js (well, unintrusive js to make the directory listing sortable) and a focus on getting shit online. The pages are either plain text or generated through some templates using markdown.

I am in dire need to clean the code up, but I will put it on github sooner or later. It grew top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top without meeting in the middle :(

sklogic• 11 years ago

Disappointed. More than 4 colours.

dpcan• 11 years ago

I love it, want to know where the got the DOS font.

krylon• 11 years ago

"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.

trainwreckme• 11 years ago

Joylent Green - a powdered food replacement made from people

http://joylent.eu

chanux• 11 years ago

#NSFW

RankingMember• 11 years ago

Haha wow, I did not see that coming.

conradfr• 11 years ago

SpeedRunners (a game on Steam) is running with graphics like 320x200 & 16 colors, and 8 bits music.

You have to restore an old version of some files to play ...

ilpianista• 11 years ago

I suppose the SailfishOS for console games is a joke: https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/583176660821913600

bobuk• 11 years ago

This is a good list of games, which can be used in SailfishOS's console: http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/02/several-great-linux-terminal... :)

dral• 11 years ago

Raspberry pi model C launches

http://raspi.tv/2015/raspberry-pi-model-c http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=12281

manojlds3• 11 years ago

Clippy is open source on Github - http://thebeebs.github.io/OfficeAssistant/

m12k• 11 years ago

It's 12.5% Objective-C - who'd have thunk?

mijoharas• 11 years ago

Hahaha, that's a nice touch, I hadn't noticed that. :)

touristtam2• 11 years ago

<!-- Thanks for being one of the people that read the source. This is a very basic stunt, I thought of it on a train back from an event last week. I saved my GitHub page using a browser and then made a few modifications to make it look more realistic as a Microsoft project. I then hijacked the A href clicks and used them to show the wonderfully awesome clippyjs by smore.

    https://www.smore.com/clippy-js

    I then uploaded the result to the gh-pages branch of a Git Repo
    as I felt this would trick the average user into thinking that
    the code was a genuine GitHub Project.

    Happy April the 1st :)

 -->

hobarrera5• 11 years ago

The "Clone in desktop" button gave it away as fake - I'm assuming it's a windows plugin for browsers or something, but I'd never seen that on github before.

zuck9• 11 years ago

This one got me bad, you could have even phished me into entering my GitHub password.

I was thinking GitHub and Microsoft did a collaboration in their April Fools prank because how else could Clippy popup when you click a link.

TazeTSchnitzel3• 11 years ago

That's mean. I'd love to have the source code to Microsoft Agent. :(

At least there's floppy.js

Also, spoofing GitHub.com might piss them off.

TazeTSchnitzel3• 11 years ago

floppy.js? I meant clippy.js

TeMPOraL5• 11 years ago

Actual source: https://github.com/thebeebs/OfficeAssistant.

malka• 11 years ago

Nice trick. And is showed me how we are all sensible to phishing attempts.

felipe_csl• 11 years ago

SOLVING AN UNTIMELY SYSTEM ERROR ON OUR SITE http://blog.airbnb.com/solving-an-untimely-system-error-on-o...

schmielson• 11 years ago

Dachshund-Powered Delivery Service

https://docsend.com/dachshund

tajen2• 11 years ago

April fools I wanted the most:

- NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities,

- Water allowed on board of planes,

- ISIS converting to Christianity,

- Apple patenting the patent,

- Snapchat releasing a payment system

Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...

mikeknoop• 11 years ago

https://support.snapchat.com/ca/snapcash

jtwebman• 11 years ago

This is real though!

ohazi• 11 years ago

Well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwjxBmMszQ

toxicFork• 11 years ago

I love how ridiculous it is!

antimagic• 11 years ago

waterboarding allowed on planes maybe?

johnlbevan22• 11 years ago

(though with a 100ml limit)

raverbashing2• 11 years ago

Snapchat payment system doesn't look like a good idea, unless you want the payment to disappear after a certain time

Mahn• 11 years ago

Well it's working out for Bitcoin.

ericlang• 11 years ago

Wait... snapchat did release a payment system.

pimlottc6• 11 years ago

Actually, couldn't you do this now by snapchatting a bitcoin wallet QR code?

monatron• 11 years ago

Water isn't allowed on board planes? I usually bring an empty nalgene through security and then fill it in one of the many water fountains in the terminals. Works well!

thekemkid2• 11 years ago

Psst, he's talking about waterboarding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

Its actually a very smart topic :D

dingaling2• 11 years ago

Even metal Sigg bottles go through security fine, so long as you've shaken all the water out and keep the caps in your pocket.

Doesn't seem to matter if the bottles are visible or inside your bag.

Tested in: Canada, Ireland, USA, UK, mainland Europe.

theseoafs• 11 years ago

Water is allowed on planes. Obviously, since water (and many other refreshments) are served on planes. Liquids are not allowed going through security, but as you say, it's easy to refill your water bottle once you get through security.

Cerium• 11 years ago

Cathay Pacific does a water check at the gate for flights going from HK to the US.

Thriptic• 11 years ago

NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities

I was thinking of something more along the lines of "NSA brings suit against NSA after it learns that tailored operations group was secretly spying on other divisions of the NSA".

JoblessWonder2• 11 years ago

Wired has learned that the NSA has filed a confidential request for records from the NSA due to suspected illegal activities.

hobarrera5• 11 years ago

Keep in mind that this has changed a lot during the last decade.

December 28th traditionally received little to no attention in Argentina, and April 1st is gradually picking up.

enkiv2• 11 years ago

You may need to depend upon the Yes Men to fulfill some of those wishes, if you desire legitimate press conferences.

jipiboily• 11 years ago

"Apple patenting the patent" -> hahaha, that would be a great idea, coming from any major tech company hold thousands of patents :)

andrebalza1• 11 years ago

Kim Jong Un chooses an Italian education provider to have a course about freedom of the press

https://youtu.be/d_vit8ZRHx8

Ookami86• 11 years ago

The Play Framework folks will be offering the "Certified Reactive Application Programmer" - in short: CRAP certification https://twitter.com/playframework/status/583131097396989952

JanneVee• 11 years ago

https://playframework.com/certification

I just love the checkbox for "Yes! I want my organization to be full of CRAP™ developers!"

nitin_flanker• 11 years ago

Apple is releasing iPhone-7 on a price below than Galaxy s7

tonglil• 11 years ago

Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard

The "executive suite - productivity edition"

http://executivesuite2016.tumblr.com/post/115074577715/tumbl...

spike021• 11 years ago

Also Coppy (Clippy clone): http://i.imgur.com/iDSUNhi.png

egeozcan• 11 years ago

They had even translated it to other languages. Color me impressed.

http://i.imgur.com/4KI0vRT.png

Red_3• 11 years ago

I love this: http://i.imgur.com/7qRyFBN.png

_dancannon• 11 years ago

Hailo Piggy Back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw49oK9bMLM

solaris999• 11 years ago

When they mentioned rebranding the mount as a Hailo lift I was hoping they'd take it a step further and invent the Uber Hailo Lyft

jjp• 11 years ago

https://www.nutmeg.com/electro-save - electric shock therapy to make you think twice about withdrawing your savings

polemic• 11 years ago

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 in exchange for the old station wagon.

NamTaf• 11 years ago

That's fantastic!

jtth• 11 years ago

That is a perfect April Fools' day joke.

a_c_s• 11 years ago

The image of the newspaper front page in this article is completely unreadable (specifically the BMW coupon): is a legible version available somewhere?

SilasX2• 11 years ago

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.

undersuit• 11 years ago

It was literally titled the April Fools Day Special and on a day where the pranks vary from annoying programs that mess with my keyboard input to annoying news articles that mess with my sanity. I wouldn't have driven down to that dealership it they were giving away junkers or Bugatti Veyrons not to mention a BMW.

bo1024• 11 years ago

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

kinduff2• 11 years ago

http://imgur.com/play - interactive Imgur experience with input commands

http://imgur.com/collab - collaborative post creation

SoulMan• 11 years ago

Now fly using Ola App – Introducing Ola Air! http://www.tdgmag.com/2015/04/ola-air-fly-using-ola-app/

Argorak2• 11 years ago

lobste.rs sports a full terminal interface with working chat and slowly updating lines.

http://lobste.rs

BetaMechazawa3• 11 years ago

Username/password to log in? Or is this a real service that put up this site just for today and requires an actual account?

mseri2• 11 years ago

try user: guest

SSLy• 11 years ago

I am able to login there with my account.

Argorak2• 11 years ago

Use https://lobste.rs/hypertext to sign up :).

swah• 11 years ago

Most users are too young to remember what this is emulating!

nickthemagicman• 11 years ago

This is cool. How do I do this on my site?

cohech• 11 years ago

http://espresso.economist.com/3525bb43cce253e2e8f04e7b62f1ba...

Economist reports that Poroshenko has suggested a winner takes all judo match with Putin to end the fighting in the Donbas.

mariuscoto• 11 years ago

New inbox by Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hydLZJXG3Tk

streger• 11 years ago

Popcorn Time, Now part of Netflix https://blog.popcorntime.io/popcorn-time-now-part-of-netflix...

touristtam2• 11 years ago

also on torrentfreak: http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-plans-free-tier-after-absorb...

sWski• 11 years ago

x86: Drop 32-bit support in Linux Kernel:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/1/118

wiradikusuma• 11 years ago

I published my Work-in-Progress maze game in Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinjas

After a minute or two (after tapping Start), it will jump-scare you with your friend's photo. You can then jump-scare your friends with your own photo.

It uses Facebook, but doesn't post anything (other than Game Request, which is user-initiated).

The game itself is still largely unfinished, but playable. Feedbacks welcome!

amouat• 11 years ago

Container Solutions is proud to release today its own container technology, Rocker. Rocker is an amalgamation of ideas and sources from both the Docker and Rocket projects.

http://container-solutions.com/2015/04/container-solutions-i...

steele• 11 years ago

Motorola Selfie Stick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584qPWzfhHY

tinkerdol• 11 years ago

Beautiful. Anyone know what music is playing in the background?

Navarr• 11 years ago

Darude Sandstorm by Darude

amolgupta2• 11 years ago

Run to get offers by flipkart:

https://twitter.com/Flipkart/status/583145516218720256

amolgupta2• 11 years ago

and another one https://twitter.com/91bilal/status/583177078238945280

shwetanka• 11 years ago

BuzzKill - http://offers.freecharge.com/buzzkill/

skuhn• 11 years ago

imgix launched the Chester Face feature, which we're providing to our customers as an AFaaS (April Fools as a Service) option:

http://blog.imgix.com/post/115195342369/new-imgix-feature-ch...

Chester Face is a tool that will automatically detect any faces in your imagery and replace those faces with that of Chester.

(Chester is an engineer's cat, who happens to be photogenic and comes out of the box in the correct shade of orange for our branding)

martius• 11 years ago

Humble Bundle proposes the Humble Indie Ballyhoo:

https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo

http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/115193038361/step-on-up-fo...

jonesetc• 11 years ago

Looks like it will really take your money, but it all goes to the charity, no humble tip. I like it.

attilagyorffy• 11 years ago

https://github.com/npm-ruby/npm-ruby - Bringing npm functionality to Ruby applications

johnfisherman• 11 years ago

"Send 15$ to this account and let's fight SPAM together!" Memeoirs launches the Spam Book! Make your own!

http://blog.memeoirs.com/2015/04/making-spam-matter-memeoirs...

kinduff2• 11 years ago

https://github.com/mrThe/to_nil - to_nil gem

peshkira2• 11 years ago

this made my day. bravo!

iagooar• 11 years ago

The best thing about it is, it is documented, tested and everything. The CoC is cool, too :)

mcbetz• 11 years ago

Sacha Greif's "Discover Meteor" announces a print edition with "Component-Oriented Architecture", "three-way binding" and integrated package management system to "remove" and "add" new pages: https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/discover-meteor-print-ed...

spb3• 11 years ago

So like the AD&D Monster Manual then?

josso• 11 years ago

Minecraft snapshot 15w14a – The Love and Hugs Update

https://mojang.com/2015/04/minecraft-snapshot-15w14a-the-lov...

"We’ve thought long and hard about this, but we finally feel happy to announce that we are now changing the general direction of the game Minecraft. Starting from the next update we will be focusing on the things that make life worth living, promoting healthy relationships with the environment and its inhabitants."

scommab• 11 years ago

xkcloud: http://xkcd.com/1506/

draugadrotten• 11 years ago

SAS SPACE TRAVEL by Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) http://www.sas.se/

mseri2• 11 years ago

Quantum music on arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09045

dbeardsl• 11 years ago

https://www.ifixit.com announces iFAXit! On-demand repair guide delivery (to your fax machines! For free!)

datenwolf• 11 years ago

Systemd is forking the Linux kernel: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community

LukeB_UK• 11 years ago

This was simply a case of someone getting the systemdaemon name on github. It's not the systemd project.

keithpeter• 11 years ago

The article is a fairly amusing April Fool's joke. Real quote from LP (on his blog from months ago) mixed in with quotes from a fictional developer. Googling the fictional developer's family name comes up with mysteriously few results...

brockers• 11 years ago

Funny how something that hits so close to the truth is more scary than funny.

chrischen• 11 years ago

Instapainting no longer uses children to paint your photos: https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/04/01/no-chi...

gzur• 11 years ago

Transform your work world with holograms!

Tempo Vision is hardware that enhances the way teams experience their environment in Tempo and JIRA.

http://www.tempoplugin.com/tempo-vision/

m-i-l2• 11 years ago

April Fool's Day: 10 stories that look like pranks but aren't: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32144005

borgia2• 11 years ago

There's many of those things I'm desperately hoping are simply April Fool's jokes.

17425170• 11 years ago

Coffeevault - http://blog.hemavault.com/2015/04/01/introducing-coffeevault...

aurizon• 11 years ago

The XQD - Quantum Entanglement Camera

https://vimeo.com/123649095

pierre• 11 years ago

Lunar Impulse http://www.lunarimpulse.com/

A plane that use lunar energy.

Lethalman• 11 years ago

H1Z1 and PlanetSide 2 switched reddit banners: http://www.reddit.com/r/H1Z1 http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/

That's because PS2 says they get cheaters from H1Z1, and viceversa.

AgLiAn• 11 years ago

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

josteink5• 11 years ago

It actually took some time before I realized this was a mockery of Islamic jihadist hackers.

Well done!

MikeTV• 11 years ago

A fitting riposte, given that the site was hacked by Islamic jihadists earlier this year http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/32248/hacking/notepad-si...

anotherevan• 11 years ago

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/5200...

An Australian and UK study has reported that increasing temperatures will result in an explosion of fire-breathing dragons around the world.

mguillemot• 11 years ago

We are launching our MMO Gangs of Space on Game Boy!

https://www.gangsofspace.com/en

FanaHOVA• 11 years ago

Not sure if UberLIONS is an April's fools joke or not, but it probably belongs here. Use promo code LIONCUBS and lion cubs (and a trainer) will come right to you ready to play. They'll also donate $1 toward the Big Cats Initiative.

https://blog.uber.com/nyc-uberlions-2015

cguess• 11 years ago

My bet is that the donation is real, but the lions are not.

cfj• 11 years ago

Banish the Hamburger Menu, Adopt Pizza Menus

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menu-vs-pizza/

infinity• 11 years ago

The german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) claims that there is an inititiative to block cat images from the web due to excessive bandwidth consumption (article in german):

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/die-digital-d...

The other content to be blocked are 'theses concerning the future of journalism' ...

SilasX2• 11 years ago

There's a campaign to keep California restaurants from bringing out water to drink because of excessive consumption.

Not April Fools though :-/

FaisalRashid• 11 years ago

Furious 7 got banned in Pakistan: http://www.shareonfb.com/n4nqp0/film-censor-board-bans-furio...

LinkPlug• 11 years ago

AngularJS + React Merger

http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react-merger/

AlexMuir• 11 years ago

How did they not call it Rectangular??

eigenrick• 11 years ago

"That's way better than what I had"

tk120404• 11 years ago

http://olaair.com

matcanessa• 11 years ago

http://visual-seo.com/SEO-Blog/Case-Study-CR-increased-neuro...

neilpeel• 11 years ago

Spotify CEO to launch rap career

http://www.thenordicweb.com/blog/spotify-ceo-to-launch-rap-c...

carlosgg3• 11 years ago

Petbox, from the people who brought you Redbox. http://www.redbox.com/petbox/?CID=EM:37311&et_rid=79397907

VelNZ3• 11 years ago

Blizzard joins in on the fun: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18486737/new-garrison-featu...

dcustodio• 11 years ago

Google Fiber dial-up mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTTtkisylQw

mirap• 11 years ago

There also is Tinder for Stupid things: http://getstd.us

detaro• 11 years ago

superfeedr rebrandes as Batfeedr

http://blog.superfeedr.com/

codeulike4• 11 years ago

Hailo Piggyback

http://www.techdigest.tv/2015/04/hailo-introduces-the-piggyb...

codeulike4• 11 years ago

Chrome Android App - Introducing #ChromeSelfie

http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/introducing-chromeselfi...

ge0rg• 11 years ago

This is awesome. I've been thinking about a meta-youtube-channel, where you can watch people watch youtube (if anyone has the time, please pull it off!).

corobo• 11 years ago

Online.net has a "Selfie" option when ordering. Pretty fun way to order a server to be honest!

https://console.online.net/en/server/selfie/Al5dpTp6Awp3

benn_88• 11 years ago

First Raspberry Pi in Space http://www.raspberrypi.org/first-pi-in-space/

1234567890123• 11 years ago

Terminal interface for omgubuntu: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/bash/

peshkira2• 11 years ago

Selfie Shoes

http://miz-mooz.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw72zFX2rsk

sanikin• 11 years ago

Pipedrive-Tinder Integration.

Being serious about dating requires having the ability to never drop the ball.

http://blog.pipedrive.com/2015/04/manage-your-dating-pipelin...

thekemkid2• 11 years ago

Micromonitor reaping huge rewards as nearForm moves all developers to four inch screens!

Announcement: http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/micromonitor-reaping-huge...

codeulike4• 11 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned

Today eeryone's comments are being auto-edited to include conspiracy theory claptrap (added to end of whatever they wrote), and they've got an illuminati theme

TazeTSchnitzel3• 11 years ago

Ah, the wonders of CSS. I bet they're choosing "random" phrases by trailing post ID characters.

phantom784• 11 years ago

Yep! https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/mvUjuBTLugN70a4mTrXqmEK937F...

anonymfus• 11 years ago

Year ago on April Fools' Day /r/europe added "thanks to Putin" to the end of every submission title and it fitted perfectly.

amyjess2• 11 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/subredditdrama

SRD is "banned".

gerty• 11 years ago

Pipedot is now in Esperanto.

https://pipedot.org/

las_cases• 11 years ago

Youtube has a new 'Add Music' button to the player (left to the 'Watch Later' button) which spices the experience I suppose! :) Oh and it's action based of course, some kind of a storm inducing experience.

Zecc• 11 years ago

Searching for a song on YouTube will suggest Sandstorm by Darude.

sijoe• 11 years ago

slowpath data appliances for buzzword dense storage: http://scalableinformatics.com/tortoise

geoffwoo• 11 years ago

Keanu - Download the New You by Nootrobox https://nootrobox.com/keanu

simonh• 11 years ago

Amazon announces the Fire HD Seven, Fire HD-7, Fire HD Sven, Fire HD VII and Fire HD 7' as successors to the Fire HD 7 and Fire HD 7". Each launches with it's own range of mutualy incompatible accessories.

sujjjith• 11 years ago

http://www.shopclues.com/laggayi90percent-offsale.html?icid=...

josteink5• 11 years ago

Cyanogenmod 12 nightlies April 1st build:

http://imgur.com/l6PV5x5

http://imgur.com/M9fRJpf

m-i-l2• 11 years ago

Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OS: http://itsfoss.com/microsoft-announces-linux-os/

spb3• 11 years ago

That is one thirsty fucking site. Something popping up every five seconds saying "Subscribe! Retweet! Look at meeeeee!!"

gmakkoulis• 11 years ago

How Avocarrot Replaced Targeting Algorithms With 742 Real People

http://www.avocarrot.com/blog/how-avocarrot-replaced-targeti...

Announcing HERO, the Human-Enabled Relevancy Optimizer, to address one of the hardest challenges we faced yet.

IgnitedGeek• 11 years ago

Facebook to acquire Meteor Announcement: http://joshowens.me/facebook-to-acquire-meteor/

krallja2• 11 years ago

KSP now stands for Kerbal Submarine Program

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/310j26/...

RRRA• 11 years ago

Why do you want to ruin the fun? :P

gadders• 11 years ago

The Today Program (news) on BBC Radio 4 had a suggestion by FIFA in the sports section to make football (soccer) goals 6 inches wider.

brianbreslin• 11 years ago

I may be accused of being a curmudgeon, but most of these aren't funny anymore. Companies are rarely funny, not sure why they keep doing this. /rant

borgia2• 11 years ago

not sure why they keep doing this

Because it gets them attention.

Personally I find it irritating.

/Buzz Killington

dnlbyl• 11 years ago

Humor by committee. What could go wrong?

joshu2• 11 years ago

I agree. The Essenes of s good April Fool's is something that is mostly believable. None of this fools anyone, it is just silly.

joshu2• 11 years ago

I probably shouldn't post via audio. Looks like I am drunk.

hrayr• 11 years ago

Ah, I don't enjoy them either, but let them have fun. This is probably more for their employees morale than for the customers.

jackreichert• 11 years ago

NordVPN - Internet unlocked... on Mars https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-did-we-unblock-the-internet-of-...

xyclos2• 11 years ago

Fast to the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLazRt8s8Wc

MrArtichaut• 11 years ago

Winner from the Password Hashing Competition http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658

dasfee• 11 years ago

Digital agency launches division to make tiny websites for the Apple Watch

Page: http://www.applewatchdesign.co/

peterwwillis• 11 years ago

Slashdot has a few stories that will blow your mind, like the tatooine youth suspected in a terrorist attack, or the discovery of alien life by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. http://slashdot.org/

Unfortunately, the comments section is still not an April Fools joke.

werencole• 11 years ago

Bob Loblaw hired by Applause:

http://blog.applause.com/2015/04/01/bob-loblaws-applause-blo...

inthewoods• 11 years ago

Funny - "Applause AppleWatch Watch – Where we watch for updates on what people are watching for from the Apple Watch"

digitalsushi• 11 years ago

/tmpShark https://appliance.cloudshark.org/tmpshark/ Cloud Storage for your temp files.

flurdy2• 11 years ago

Google Actual Cloud platform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp10_PygJ4o

https://cloud.google.com/actual-cloud/

TeMPOraL5• 11 years ago

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

flurdy2• 11 years ago

:) 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...

dEnigma2• 11 years ago

"ButtDrops™" Oh yes, I definitely don't regret installing this extension.

nmc• 11 years ago

They even have a form to apply for a free trial!

Where does the joke end?

andmalc• 11 years ago

That's gotta be the real Cloud Platform Trial signup.

It wouldn't let me see it because I'm actually already on the trial.

dmos62• 11 years ago

Fluffy [tick]

rascul• 11 years ago

DigitalOcean opens new underwater datacenter in Atlantis

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/announcing-atlanti...

mangeletti2• 11 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8sofAN4xc

ernestipark• 11 years ago

HubSpot Goes #DeskFree, Pioneering the Next Frontier of Workspace Collaboration http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/hubspot-desk-free

andrewbarba• 11 years ago

#CHAMPRANK Your Friends

http://blog.tablelist.com/tablelist-april-fools-2015-champra...

dingaling2• 11 years ago

QANTAS to become QUANTAS, to end decades of orthographic confusion.

http://www.ausbt.com.au/australia-s-best-april-fools-day-avi...

jeditobe• 11 years ago

ReactOS Foundation renounce claims to the logo ReactJS in exchange for investments by Facebook

http://habrahabr.ru/company/reactos/blog/254579/

As the saying goes, there would be a blessing ...

Some time ago, in the ReactOS Foundation, it was decided to exercise their right to protect their means of individualization, namely the registered trademark, trademark and logo (the wording depends on the jurisdiction of law enforcement). We were inspired by the successful experience of the project Gnome, which is to protect their brand from the encroachments of Groupon.

Recently, the lawyers hired by the Fund, sent to Facebook Ireland Limited warning about trademark infringement ReactOS. The fact that Facebook is developing a project ReactJS, whose logo resembles the logo ReactOS confusingly. Since over the long term has not followed any response letter, nor any appropriate action on the part of Facebook, lawyers fund full steam preparing a lawsuit against the social network. Suddenly came very late response to the complaint letter ... and what!

Facebook ReactOS Foundation offered to give up claims to ReactJS out of court in exchange for investments in the project of our operating system.

The volume and the specific conditions of the investment currently being discussed in the negotiations, but it is already clear that it is a sum equivalent to several million euros. For their part, representatives of Facebook made demands on what exactly should go money.

Is expected to develop client and server distributions based on ReactOS, a graphical shell which will be based on React.JS, then while all calculations and data processing will be carried out thanks to Node.js. It is obvious that Facebook is preparing to attack Google and Microsoft in the operating system market for tablets and handheld gadgets. It is worth noting that the social giant has long been known for its contribution to the opensource-motion: Apache Cassandra, Apache Hive, Apache Thrift, FQL, Hack, HipHop for PHP, Scribe, Open Compute Project.

Stay tuned for details of this epochal event will follow soon!

ju11111• 11 years ago

Is this news verified and true?

rbustamante22• 11 years ago

New teeth jewelry line: http://www.loveandpieces.com/blogs/online-jewelry-boutique-b...

coldpie• 11 years ago

One of my favorite April 1 things is Wikipedia's bizarre frontpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The featured article, picture, and various highlights on the frontpage are always delightful. And true and educational! Check it out.

no_news_is• 11 years ago

The cake is a pie!

Also whoa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_cake

xyclos2• 11 years ago

Code School is Now Customizable: https://www.codeschool.com/geocities#?bg=1&cr=1&ff=1&g1=0&g2...

Vaanir• 11 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/android and http://www.reddit.com/r/apple swapped their CSS.

octatoan• 11 years ago

As did /r/guitar and /r/bass, and /r/AncientGreek and /r/latin.

hvnswrd• 11 years ago

This surely has some of the acolytes going insane.

tashoecraft• 11 years ago

Angular and React have merged

http://moduscreate.com/reangular-angular-react-merger/

urvader• 11 years ago

Sync physical post-it board with trello using magnetism, pencil and a Raspberry Pi. https://vimeo.com/123835399

asomorjai• 11 years ago

From the Hungarian iPhone site szifon.com comes the news that Apple buys Yosemite Park :)

http://szifon.com/2015/04/01/felvasarolja-az-apple-a-yosemit...

larleys• 11 years ago

Study led by senior Google dev reveals direct correlation between tech conference food and blacking out in sessions.

https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/04/chet-haase-forking-disru...

will_walker• 11 years ago

Glitter resin launched by Formlabs:

http://formlabs.com/company/blog/2015/04/01/introducing-glit...

tomjhill• 11 years ago

http://www.wiffi.co.uk - The Scent of Connection

Scented Wi-Fi that lets you know if a connection is secure or not. If it smells bad, don't connect.

The best thing is... It's not an April Fools!

blparker• 11 years ago

Uber Shop

Uber's trademark innovation and convenience have revolutionized the way you move. Starting today, we're revolutionizing the way you shop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bECYvHkDrMo&feature=youtu.be

fudgy732• 11 years ago

Uber Car Shop

Pick up a Car Shop catalog on your next Uber trip and discover world class products from the comfort of the backseat.

http://issuu.com/ubermo/docs/ubercarshop

johnm1019• 11 years ago

Prysm announces headband control for collaborative display walls

https://vimeo.com/123800794

thelonelygod• 11 years ago

Today, we're pivoting. Major League Hacking is now Major League Packing: http://news.mlh.io/major-league-hacking-now-major-league-pac...

fudgy732• 11 years ago

Not sure if this is a joke or not. HackTonight from HotelTonight

https://www.hoteltonight.com/2015/04/join-beta-hacktonight/

sarciszewski• 11 years ago

Crypto pranks:

The winner of the Password Hashing Contest was announced to be, LM Hash!

https://twitter.com/veorq/status/583175725206892544

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658

libsodium added ROT13, fast, keyless, powerful cipher

https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/commit/23f1c90c682484f...

marcosdumay2• 11 years ago

libsodium added ROT13, fast, keyless, powerful cipher

And made resistent to timming attacks!

adem666• 11 years ago

black out whole country was good idea. and Turkey did it for 10 hours

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nationwide-blackout-...

relu• 11 years ago

Elance-oDesk announcing new name and the shift to online dating. Elove-oDate, double click on love.

https://www.odesk.com/blog/2015/04/announcing-new-name-new-s...

skrowl2• 11 years ago

On reddit /r/andoid and /r/apple both show each other's posts (mixed together)

lhorie• 11 years ago

Mithril.js website in elvish

http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/archive/v0.1.34/

ins0• 11 years ago

Google: Moon optimize mobile pages https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile...

gk3• 11 years ago

Parse Pigeon - add on-demand delivery to your app with a few lines of code: http://parse.com/products/pigeon

CGamesPlay• 11 years ago

Plus, a Parse coupon for joining the waitlist!

alicez• 11 years ago

Dato targets MS-DOS as the next Big Data platform, processes terabytes of data in 640KB of RAM

http://blog.dato.com/dato-on-ms-dos

omgitstom• 11 years ago

https://stormpath.com/blog/why-http-is-sometimes-better-than...

Compelling argument why your app should use HTTP instead of HTTPS

cies2• 11 years ago

"Functor is now a superclass of Monad in GHC HEAD"

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3121lh/functor_is_n...

Same as last year:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bfojn/functor_is_n...

And I fell for it again... Hmpf.

marcosdumay2• 11 years ago

Isn't it now? Or is it only Applicative?

nvader• 11 years ago

David Beazley releases Meẗal, a python decorator library powered by umlauts.

https://github.com/dabeaz/me-al

pavel_lishin• 11 years ago

Haha, I love this bit of the README:

If the above command fails with an ImportError, you're probably using a Mac. That's an unfortunate choice as you can't really expect a toy machine like that to be used for serious tasks.

gldnspud• 11 years ago

Meẗal only works with Python 3. If you love Python and you're still coding in Python 2, well, then fuck you.

Glad I already switched to Python 3 for new projects, so I could evade that one!

- Sent from my toy machine

rand888• 11 years ago

http://www.ebuyer.com/k9-audio-hf-hifi-canine-hifi-unit

dewyatt• 11 years ago

Complete rewrite of HAProxy in Lua http://www.haproxy.org/

mbostleman• 11 years ago

Vail Resorts buys Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

http://www.tetongravity.com/story/ski/breaking-vail-resorts-...

hdmoore• 11 years ago

Metasploit Framework rolls out new banners: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/5047

skrowl2• 11 years ago

My Little Pwny: Exploits are Magic!

Hilarious!

Zigurd• 11 years ago

Latvia to get Mistral warship instead of Russia: https://euobserver.com/news/128217

It was picked up as fact by several Rusian media outlets: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KJbT4Xw...

krallja2• 11 years ago

https://meh.com/ applies one of several vertigo-inducing CSS transforms

makeee• 11 years ago

Popular DIY blog "The Crafted Life" is acquired by Kraft Cheese, rebrands to The Krafted Life, focuses solely on DIY tutorials that utilize Kraft cheese products: http://thecraftedlife.com

bhaumik• 11 years ago

We added new mentors, including rms for iOS, Elon Musk, etc.

http://www.thinkful.com/mentors

ai_ja_nai• 11 years ago

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

pamonrails• 11 years ago

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

tie_• 11 years ago

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

thefahim• 11 years ago

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

cmpaul• 11 years ago

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

kyledrake• 11 years ago

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

milesf• 11 years ago

Looks like iFixit has multiple A1 jokes today:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Watch+Teardown/38659

https://www.ifixit.com/ifaxit

cbsmith2• 11 years ago

Google Panda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9Qb4PuiOU

blumentopf• 11 years ago

The Hurr Durr Archives

https://www.kernel.org/

viacoffee• 11 years ago

Hodor Lang by Hummingbird Tech

http://www.hodor-lang.org/

binoyxj4• 11 years ago

T-Mobile Pets Unleashed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kj-4F8pWfk

thebiglebrewski• 11 years ago

New York Code + Design Academy has a web development class for your furry friends now!

http://nycda.com/classes/web-development-for-dogs/

drelihan• 11 years ago

Ministry of Supply sells The Armstrong, a space suit for the modern man - http://ministryofsupply.com/pages/the-armstrong

tumultco• 11 years ago

Introducing Tumult Hype Edition

http://blog.tumult.com/2015/04/01/introducing-tumult-hype-ed...

Light theme, Dark theme, and now the Gold theme!

dylnclrk• 11 years ago

Indiegogo Heat: The world's first hot sauce crowdfunding platform. https://learn.indiegogo.com/heat/

cbsmith2• 11 years ago

Disney announces X-Wings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3n_D1zBrg

GeoNomad• 11 years ago

https://phplist.nova-wings.com/lists/lt.php?id=fk4BAwkaUFMZU...

Flying 365 days per year!

Austrian paragliding manufacturers NOVA plan to convert a reservoir into an indoor paragliding centre

During a press conference in Terfens, Tyrol, local paragliding manufacturer NOVA has announced their intention to open an indoor flying centre. They plan to convert a reservoir into a so-called Para-Hall, in order to offer pilots from all over the world the opportunity to fly regardless of the weather conditions. At present they are in intense negotiations with hydroelectric companies and the state governments of the Tyrol and Salzburg. The project focuses on sustainability and will contribute to the long-term future of the Austrian tourism industry.

“Climate change cannot be ignored” says NOVA CEO Wolfgang Lechner, “glaciers in the Alps will melt sooner or later. Therefore, it is inevitable that some reservoirs and their hydroelectric plants will no longer be profitable. Our Para-Hall is a ground-breaking alternative.“

NOVA intends to empty, dredge, clean and cover a reservoir. Lechner explains that from a technical point of view, a reservoir with a hydroelectric plant is ideal for converting into a flying centre: “the turbines can be reversed and used to blow air into the Para-Hall. Add a few filaments and indoor thermals are possible. Our test pilots have already tried this in the indoor ski centre in Dubai. It worked fine!”

A highlight of the NOVA Para-Hall will be the Open Air Access, which is a huge retractable roof. With strong indoor thermals, it will be possible to take off inside and go through the roof. Alternatively, it can launch outside, for example in the Outdoor Hike & Fly Area in the mountains above the centre, and then land inside.

The Spectator Area will be situated at the front of the Para-Hall – with glazed viewing areas facing into the centre and down to the valley. Several levels will offer visitors the chance to have a variety of gastro-experiences: Tyrolean Stubn (inns) will offer locally produced local organic produce, an Ayurveda restaurant staffed by genuine Indian chefs, Schnitzel-World (a self-service restaurant with good cost-benefit ratio), on level three it is possible to fast, while next to the landing zone, pilots can avail themselves of the obligatory landing field beer. “The absolute highlight", according to Wolfi Lechner, "is the Silent Zone. This is situated in the Fresh Air Zone and offers complete relaxation. Here everyone can discover their inner apricot.”

NOVA plans to convert the current engine room into an Outdoor Experience Centre. Lechner explains: “We hope to install eco hotels with straw beds and Tyrolean pinewood interiors, a climbing wall, wellness centre, a spacious spa area with attached salt cave, an ice climbing wall, yoga retreat and a children's crèche with a mountain pasture experience - featuring real cows. Part of the drainage channel will be converted to a night club. Finally, there will be conferencing facilities. We’re thinking big and are focussing on the family - and all very sustainable!“ In co-operation with the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics in Innsbruck) NOVA has commissioned research, which will pinpoint the optimal moment to start the building work. The project should commence no later than the 1st April 2020, probably earlier.

“At first glance, the concept may sound a bit crazy”, explains Lechner, “but the planning is in the advanced stages.” Currently the reservoir at the Moserboden in the Tauern area is favourite. The site offers the advantage of two dams. On one side the topography will enable soaring flights, the other will be developed as a thermalling paradise.

Lechner is convinced that the power generation companies will be enthusiastic about the concept and he is anticipating investment from ski resort operators. “Sooner or later they will no longer have a viable business. With our long-term sustainable concept we will be able to save the day. The Para-Hall we will mean we are all ready for the future. It will allow tourists to experience all facets of nature – without having to step outside!”

Find out more at www.nova.eu

binoyxj4• 11 years ago

Dominos driverless delivery vehicle https://www.dominos.co.uk/blog/dominos-rolls-out-driverless-...

binoyxj4• 11 years ago

KINDLR, the New Goodreads Dating App https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/498-announcing-kindlr-th...

theophrastus2• 11 years ago

Duluth Magnetic Pants: https://www.duluthtrading.com/features/magnetic-work-pants-a...

Got me thinking: "wait, what if two guys bought these on the same work-site?" (admittedly i was pre-caffeine at the time)

andybuzz• 11 years ago

Blinkist announces Blink-ku, poetic summaries of nonfiction books.

https://www.blinkist.com/page19/introducing-blink-ku-the-wor...

The summary of Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek is hilarious:

So Much Depends Upon a 40-Hour Lie

So much depends upon

a forty hour lie when

all you need is an out of office responder

and a bunch of virtual assistants

binoyxj4• 11 years ago

Coca-Cola in a new 10 ml sip size pack https://twitter.com/CocaCola/status/583303638090694656

orik• 11 years ago

Moz is offering support to all users through Snapchat.

http://moz.com/blog/snapchat-support

ssharp• 11 years ago

Embrace Pet Insurance Proud to Say Direwolf Coverage Is Coming

http://www.embracepetinsurance.com/about-us/press/direwolf-c...

Disclaimer: I work there.

pknerd2• 11 years ago

MS Definitely win here.

pknerd2• 11 years ago

Thanks downvoter, I love you

benatkin• 11 years ago

https://instagram.com/p/078SdFQ3hJ/?taken-by=marutaro

jianshen• 11 years ago

Houzz releases HouzzLenz VR Goggles to visualize home remodeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIKDcMwreY

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/46342399/list/houzzlenz-the-n...

"If you can swipe your face, you can update your place."

bvanvugt• 11 years ago

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

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

carlosgg3• 11 years ago

Dirk Nowitzki announces he is retiring

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

sisivee• 11 years ago

+1, thanks for creating this.

skynetv2• 11 years ago

Humble bundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/ballyhoo

placeybordeaux• 11 years ago

You can actually buy it. They are instructions on how to play those games.

tehaugmenter• 11 years ago

That's actually kind of cool though no joke.

austen• 11 years ago

Dragon Drop for Asana

Accouncement: https://blog.asana.com/2015/04/breathe-some-fire-into-your-t...

cpeterso• 11 years ago

blink-dev: Intent to deprecate and remove: JavaScript

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/bli...

youknowjack• 11 years ago

Jobs4Pets: http://www.indeed.com/jobs4pets

zakelfassi• 11 years ago

FlipTheWeb Chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fliptheweb/jfdmnek...

(inspired by com.google)

dag11• 11 years ago

Phew, this fixed com.google. Now I can search again!

anotherdjohnson• 11 years ago

Apparently HealthLoop was attacked by zombies: http://ow.ly/L42S9

markkat• 11 years ago

Hubski, clicking a hubwheel plays "thoughtful" audio clip.

https://hubski.com

lowboy• 11 years ago

Too bad I get redirected to an auth page after 50ms of audio.

codysoyland• 11 years ago

yoloimport: Python package that eliminates ImportErrors.

https://github.com/codysoyland/yoloimport

dumbstoneDOTcom• 11 years ago

Dumbstone.com http://www.dumbstone.com We Bedazzle Wearables and trade them as virtual currency!

kibwen• 11 years ago

The CSS working group has published a draft of proposed extensions to the CSS specification, which include dedicated units for denoting lengths on astronomical scales (lightseconds, attoparsecs, etc.) as well as extending the CSS gradient syntax to grant first-class support to the generation of double rainbows.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-egg/

gravity13• 11 years ago

This is gold

Intermernet2• 11 years ago

Note: This specification does not address relativistic effects of scrolling or animations and transitions at (or beyond) the speed of light.

I presume these would only show up if using relative paths or positions in your CSS.

tpowell• 11 years ago

Miscellaneous Month at Travaasa Experiential Resorts – http://travaasa.com/newsletter/2015/april/

salimmadjd• 11 years ago

Bacon Flavored Asthma Peak Flow Meter to improve asthma adherence.

https://twitter.com/AsthmaMD/status/583333806469337088

Red_3• 11 years ago

InternetIsBeatiful went retro

http://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/

notatoad• 11 years ago

Google Reader re-launched:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-reader-rises-...

redwards510• 11 years ago

Google acquires XDA : http://www.xda-developers.com/google-to-acquire-xda-dev-rewa...

Taek• 11 years ago

Reddit releasing a crowd game at /r/thebutton

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html

misframer• 11 years ago

The C languages merge http://isocpp.org/blog/2015/04/the-c-languages-merge

yaliceme• 11 years ago

Space Rock - Build computer things that are nice to use, faster than you could before https://space-rock.meteor.com/

sycren• 11 years ago

Fake Job Ad: MyAppConverter is seeking a new senior developer to open up their new San Francisco office in their expansion plans.

https://www.myappconverter.com/blog/senior-developer-wanted-...

$250,000 - $300,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

Join our new San Francisco office!

We’re looking for a Senior Developer to bring their talents to our brand new team. This opportunity is simply unmissable! Join the innovators in app conversion, and take your career to new heights.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Developer to join our expanding team.

MyAppConverter is seeking a talented Senior Developer to sit back, relax and have all of their work done for them. A lazy mindset is essential, and someone with a passion for the latest revolution in app conversion is a must.

Developer skill / responsibilities:

- No previous experience necessary.

- Excellent Java skills (drinking coffee from a mug/cup/thermos).

- Thumb twiddling expertise.

- A passion for the latest revolution in app conversion.

- Watching in silent awe.

- Enjoys boredom.

lelf• 11 years ago

TeslaMotors: No more parking tickets for Model S owners. Today we’re introducing: ticket-avoidance-mode. Here’s how it works: https://amp.twimg.com/v/cdad704b-5167-42bd-9fd7-a5c39fabf1f9

timwiththebo• 11 years ago

Adopt A Pothole: http://www.adoptapothole.co.ke/

Created by OkHi, a tech startup in Kenya that has a mission to give a physical address to the 4B people in the world who don't have one.

danschumann• 11 years ago

Eagle Optics introduces a way to attract more birds to your feeder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mlw3165fo&feature=youtu.be

ndesaulniers• 11 years ago

Microsoft to buy Mozilla: http://imgur.com/oF0S74Y

theophrastus2• 11 years ago

The effort to fork Debian (Devuan) capitulates: starting here: https://devuan.org/ follow "BREAKING NEWS: Ultimately, we give up. Read here in detail" to here: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150401.095603.4a3a1e... at least i think it's an April fools joke (not a super funny one at least)

ca98am79• 11 years ago

Flippa is selling itself on itself: https://flippa.com/4334300-premium-pr-5-online-marketplace-w...

rbc• 11 years ago

Here's one from 2011, "Stetson hat to be new Army standard headgear":

http://www.army.mil/article/54202/Stetson_hat_to_be_new_Army...

magdi• 11 years ago

Introducing Prezi Retro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOgnaEc5hg&feature=youtu.be

mmagdi• 11 years ago

Introducing Prezi Retro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxOgnaEc5hg&feature=youtu.be

bmet• 11 years ago

Education.com announces it will become a cat-based learning platform Announcement: http://www.education.com/cat-based-learning/ "Science" article: http://www.education.com/magazine/article/cat-co-learning/ Homepage (they added cats): http://www.education.com/

drewry• 11 years ago

The future of programming languages, a long jumbled series of HODOR to create functional scripts. http://hodor-lang.org

steven_pack• 11 years ago

Government to sell-off playgrounds - kids don't play outside anyway. Proceeds to be used to build digital parks inside Minecraft.

http://daily.koalasafe.com/

Got picked up by a few places in Australia.

VelNZ3• 11 years ago

Grouber from Groupon: http://www.groupon.com/pages/grouber

VelNZ3• 11 years ago

Razer - Project McFly Hovering Mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCx5gjAmqI

carlosgg3• 11 years ago

Hillary Declares 2016 Run, Files For Divorce http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/hillary-declares-2016-run-f...

Red_3• 11 years ago

Compilations of Pranks from TechCrunch, CNN and TheVerge

http://techcrunch.com/gallery/april-fools-2015-the-mega-roun...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/world/april-fools-day-pranks/

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8327379/april-fools-roundup

List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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