Show HN: April Fool's Pranks

[siong1987]

Instead of saturating the frontpage with April Fool's pranks, why don't we keep all the jokes under this thread?

It works just like a subpage for just April Fool's pranks.

* Submit your link with comment.

[siong1987]

From Google,

* Google Nose: https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/help.html

* Gmail Blue: https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/index....

Edit: Gmail Tap removed.

[scottbartell]

Gmail Blue reminds me of a lot of startups out there.

[hiddenfeatures]

Google Nose is AWESOME! Think of the possibilities. This technology has the chance to improve the lifes of thousands stressed with long-distance relationsships.

Man... this will revolutionize cyber-sex as we know it!

[bjxrn]

Gmail blue made me think of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Blue

[sevkih]

https://www.youtube.com/theyoutubecollection

[5hredder]

After seeing Gmail Blue.

http://i.imgur.com/ayaqn.gif

[timothya]

Gmail Tap is from last year.

[bhickey]

I wrote a file system that gives weather reports: http://github.com/bhickey/cloudyfs

[bbanyc]

If you did this for Plan 9 it wouldn't be a joke. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if Plan 9 has already got this.

[zachlatta]

That is fantastic!

[arcatek]

April Fools on the Python bugtracker

#17587 Have all core library modules imported by default

http://bugs.python.org/issue17587

[pyvek]

Even though I know its a joke, a part of me still raged inside.

    And can we put an & and a $ somewhere in Python?  I think these feel very cool to use, and are easily one of >the best things I miss from more advanced languages like C and PHP.  
    Let's be honest, doesn't this:
    
        $item->method();
    
    Look a lot more professional than:
    
        item.method()

[joshguthrie]

Okay, that one made me laugh :D

[dbarlett]

INTERCAL on Interstates http://www.intercaloninterstates.org/

Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470570

[joshguthrie]

INTERCAL on Interstates looked so close to real... Almost disappointed it's an April Fools :(

[dbarlett]

Atlassian JIRA Jr. http://www.atlassian.com/jirajr

[sveiss]

This is slightly tempting for the teenagers I wrangle -- mostly for the embarrassment factor.

[vrdabomb5717]

Youtube on the selection of a winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0

[zarify]

As always, the really good stuff is in the comments.

I'd like to think they're playing along, but...

[EmilRehnberg]

Twitter's pretty good: http://blog.twitter.com/2013/03/annncng-twttr.html

[josephpmay]

This is great. I get the impression that they are mocking app.net.

[hkuo]

If you can get access to someone's iPhone for 30 seconds you can install a web app that looks just like the iPhone interface but with various surprises when anything is pressed.

http://www.iphoneception.com

[carlsednaoui]

Google Analytics - Visits from The International Space Stations: http://carlsednaoui.com/post/46805160838/google-analytics-ha...

[paul9290]

Yeah i just submitted my newest startup via a Show HN and since then been watching Real Time Analytics.

I had no idea what that dot in the middle of the ocean was with 41 visitors; joke was lost on me for a bit. Cute.

[maguay]

Some awesome CSS for messing up your colleagues' browsing experience for April Fool's day: https://github.com/wesbos/aprilFools.css

[ak0s]

Lambda the Ultimate is moving to Facebook: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4709

[hayksaakian]

stereotypical job ad for a startup

probably by 500 startups

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/3715368374.html

saw it posted on YC jobs

[josephpmay]

Are you sure this isn't real?

[pawn]

I put this one together. I tried to be pretty blatantly obvious but some people still bought it.

http://www.cnn.com.2013.04.01.supreme.court.settles.marriage...

[Justsignedup]

May I say, a brilliant use of domain names.

[Urgo]

I've been keeping a list of every website that puts up an april fools' day joke since 2004. Here's the 2013 list (submit to here if you like too) http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2013.html

[nitins]

http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft/?utm_sou...

[milkmiruku]

Charlie Stross goes into movie production

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/press-re...

[jaredsohn]

OkCupid Labs Date Courier (find dates via snail mail): http://www.okcupidlabs.com/blog/2013/03/30/Date-Courier.html

[EmilRehnberg]

Google Japan has one on character input methods: http://googlejapan.blogspot.jp/2013/04/google-patapata.html

And Kotaku is not late to the party either: http://kotaku.com/tiny-nintendo-consoles-made-out-of-lego-46...

[walt74]

Kotakus Posting is real.

[tonystubblebine]

We did Goal Tracking by Mail and we're actually honoring these.

http://blog.lift.do/post/46554731666/v0-1-goal-tracking-by-m...

People seem to want an Android version of Lift, but we thought a nice, high-res paper version would do more to increase our reach.

[YokoZar]

Last year I uploaded an empty package to Ubuntu titled "Free Launchpad Karma" -- the idea was that whenever an Ubuntu developer wanted more Launchpad karma points, they could easily file a bug against it, close a bug against it, upload a new version, provide a translation, and so on.