Ask HN: What April fool made you laugh today?
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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I like the SO filters i hope they leave it in settings after april fools
Honestly Facebook (StackBook? BookOverflow?) theme is much more legible for my eyes than SO default theme.
Agreed, a little jarring, but the retro windows theme is neat
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.
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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.
Linus's new laptop review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A
The VK_FOOL_printed_surface vulkan extension: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/the-latest-and-greates...
Yeah the SO one tripped me out, thought my graphics card was dying ha.
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Lapsus$ leaked Linus’s latest kernel code.
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.
April Fools' Day On The Web [1] compiles a list each year (starting in 2004).
[1] https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/
[1] https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/
Using Godel Theorem to show that GDPR is impossible to enforce.
https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rule...