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Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

74 points by joshfinnie ↗ HN
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.

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runevault
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.
rapind
progressive text... so much better than interleaved text.
felideon
xkcd's command prompt for sure
joshfinnie
My favorite so far is XKCDs Command Prompt. There are so many easter eggs to find, it is definitely a time killer!
pavel_lishin
Am 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
Looking 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
Meta-source-code-reading?
CGamesPlay
Type "i read the source code" into the prompt.
ironkeith
I laughed at the reply to "cat".
oscardelben
The problem is that the more you put apart things because of laziness, the more you become lazy.
rapind
Great. Just wish it had bash completion.
sliverstorm
You mean it's just a prank? I was kind of hoping it would stay.
henrikschroder
Do 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)

Vivtek
0.64 times the velocity of an unladen swallow. That's pretty good!
algorias
Only works for the english version, though. I had to go to google.co.uk, since google.com redirects me to google.cl
reynolds
Am I the only one who hates April Fool's day on the web?
lincolnq
sorry, then this is not the thread for you :(
yesimahuman
Maybe 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.
joshu
you are not alone.
mtinkerhess
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.
O3d
The 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
I rather liked the Y Permutator story - if for no other reason than it made me think whether it should have been C Combinator.
yanw
YouTube's TEXTp they should keep that in the labs projects, and the Google translate for animals was quite funny.