Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second. (dougaitken.tumblr.com)

139 points by dougaitken 14y ago ↗ HN

Did I just see a Easter Egg / Glitch / A/B test?

Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second there!

Refreshed in a new tab & it was back to Hacker news.

(click source in the link for full scrnsht)

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jwhitlark 14y ago ↗

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

So glad I'm not the only one. Been wracking my brain trying to think why it'd have a rename, even for a day.

jwhitlark 14y ago ↗

I've been checking HN off and on all day, and I only saw it once.

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

sorry, I mean't why it would be renamed, not that it had been. Like when pg puts the blackbar at the top for a death, maybe this was related to something.

giulivo 14y ago ↗

so this was not an hoax? (not just a modified screenshot I mean)

mcs 14y ago ↗

I'm not crazy!

chrisbennet 14y ago ↗

Well...the jury is still out on that. ;-)

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dougaitken 14y ago ↗

Did you get Biz news Ryan or its that 'shopped?

Very odd, Biz and Ev.

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

Oh FFS Doug. Just realised what you did there Ryan. face palm

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keeran 14y ago ↗

pg was playing drinking games with @ev and he lost a bet? :)

eslaught 14y ago ↗

Was this a test, or vandalization? (If this wasn't intended, I'd review my security settings about now...)

raldi 14y ago ↗

What does "(click source for full scrnsht)" mean?

jarek 14y ago ↗

The source link is the little square icon with "dl.dropbox.com" text label, it links to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png which is the full-size image.

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

i linked the screenshot as the source on my tumblr post.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png

pg 14y ago ↗

I was just demoing the convenience of the repl to Ev Kontsevoy of Mailgun.

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

How do you mean?

seanwoods 14y ago ↗

Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

ah! I thought he meant "reply".

repl.

I'm such a programming n00b.

aaronbrethorst 14y ago ↗

Best book ever: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

wglb 14y ago ↗

May well be run from the repl always.

noamsml 14y ago ↗

I'm really amused by the fact that not only do you make visible modifications to a popular site you own as a talking point, but as other comments suggest, you seem to make a habit of it.

smokeyj 14y ago ↗

is this his mother?

kylec 14y ago ↗

9 months ago I caught a screenshot of it titled "Katelyn News" as well:

http://i.imgur.com/eDzEc.jpg

The green title bar is just my personal setting, that didn't change.

veb 14y ago ↗

nice. gender specific. i'd be able to get rid of my gf. :)

dougaitken 14y ago ↗

Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar

katelyndrchrono 14y ago ↗

im katelyn :)