Ask HN: What April fool made you laugh today?

18 points by Andugal 4y ago ↗ HN

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/

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onion2k 4y 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/ is pretty inspired.

xvector 4y ago ↗

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

freeCandy 4y ago ↗

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

ge96 4y ago ↗

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

hahnchen 4y ago ↗

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

999900000999 4y ago ↗

Agreed, a little jarring, but the retro windows theme is neat

justsomehnguy 4y ago ↗

Honestly Facebook (StackBook? BookOverflow?) theme is much more legible for my eyes than SO default theme.

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egberts1 4y ago ↗

Lapsus$ leaked Linus’s latest kernel code.

hhsbdbdbdbdb 4y 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.

mzfr 4y ago ↗

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

jshprentz 4y ago ↗

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

[1] https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/

midhem 4y ago ↗

Using Godel Theorem to show that GDPR is impossible to enforce. https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rule...

yearly 4y ago ↗

Stackoverflow

gremlinsinc 4y ago ↗

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.