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.<p>Thank you.
Reddit 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.
I'll have to make this a shameless plug, but it's probably the only way any of you will get to know about this.<p>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.<p>We even made a logo:
<a href="http://blog.qaym.com/2010/04/blog-post.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.qaym.com/2010/04/blog-post.html</a><p>And a homepage to boost:
<a href="http://www.qaym.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.qaym.com/</a><p>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!
Youtube'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.
I'm pretty partial to our own, which includes a working implementation: <a href="http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/04/01/solving-the-javascript-memory-management-problem/" rel="nofollow">http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/04/01/solving-the-javascr...</a>
Do a Google search for anything and look at the stats for the search.<p><i>Results 1 - 10 of about 397,000,000 for anything [definition]. (0.30 microfortnights)</i>
Personally I'm most excited about the paranormal romance "Unicorn School: The Sparkling". Start reading half-way down. <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/psa-new-book-deal.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/psa-new-...</a>
I can honestly say Ars Technica's gets my vote. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/staff/nate/2010/04/tentacular-tentacular.ars" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/staff/nate/2010/04/tentacular-tentacu...</a>
I 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: <a href="http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/04/aws_importexport_punch_cards.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/04/aws_importexport...</a>
The Independent's piece on the Circle Line (London Underground) being turned into the second Large Hadron Collider.<p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii-planned-for-circle-line-1932744.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii...</a>
I like Atlassian fourwalls. Bringing foursquare to the enterprise with developer checkins. The site is funny. "Devlopers: use our API to write your own APIs". <a href="http://atlassian.com/fourwalls" rel="nofollow">http://atlassian.com/fourwalls</a>
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future:
<a href="http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm" rel="nofollow">http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm</a><p>...at least I hope it's an April Fools joke, or we're seriously fucked.<p>EDIT: Actually this wins: there's a vowel outage at gmail
<a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html" rel="nofollow">http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.ht...</a>
If you're a Settlers of Catan fan, check out the DealBase deal on the Isle of Catan: <a href="http://www.dealbase.com/Isle-of-Catan/Hotel-Catan-deals/DealBase-Exclusive-Upgrade-Largest-248691" rel="nofollow">http://www.dealbase.com/Isle-of-Catan/Hotel-Catan-deals/Deal...</a>
It's not an April Fool Joke per se, but <a href="http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/april-fool/" rel="nofollow">http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/april-fool/</a> has to be the funniest thing I've seen in quite a few Aprils.
For any DJs out there, the "Enable Auto DJ" button in Mixxx changes to "Enable Pee Break Mode" on April 1st.<p><a href="http://www.mixxx.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mixxx.org/</a>
if 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 (<a href="http://www.sc2promod.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sc2promod.com/</a>) hilarious
I humbly submit my own attempt at humor: <a href="http://blog.obsidianportal.com/?p=362" rel="nofollow">http://blog.obsidianportal.com/?p=362</a><p>It might be funny to anyone who has to deal with user-generated content.
Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz to be fined by FCC? <a href="http://zomg.yahoo.com/fcc-to-possibly-fine-yahoo-ceo-for-swearing-on-tv" rel="nofollow">http://zomg.yahoo.com/fcc-to-possibly-fine-yahoo-ceo-for-swe...</a>
The article "Orthographic Correlations in Astrophysics" by Zuntz, Zlosnik, Zunckel, and Zwarf on the arXiv.<p><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6064</a>
Shameless self promotion - <a href="http://tweetsworth.com/e" rel="nofollow">http://tweetsworth.com/e</a><p>Submitted it here for testing a few days ago but few people realized it was a joke.
LHC used to discover the Neutrinosaurus<p><a href="http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html" rel="nofollow">http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html</a>
I always like trying to figure out which of the products <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thinkgeek.com</a> made up for April Fools.
liking this re justin bieber (beeber?) <a href="http://gruvr.com/blog/justin-bieber-to-change-spelling-of-surname/" rel="nofollow">http://gruvr.com/blog/justin-bieber-to-change-spelling-of-su...</a>
Google Translate for Animals, this is just hilarious <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/</a>