Ask HN: Where are all this years April fools jokes?

4 points·rurban··13 comments

Were we really do shellshocked by the xz backdoor? I didn't see any

Well, there's a 2024 RFC gag: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9564.html

Otherwise, we refer you to the tongue-in-cheek Financial Times 'why this page was not found' rationale: https://www.ft.com/errors/page/404

Thanks, this was worth it!

I enjoyed this one from J-skis: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5NztVDO2Ch/?igsh=eGgzbTQ1cGJ...

April Fools jokes don't create shareholder value.

They are a form of marketing.

My pet theory is that they were a form of marketing for the folks who grew up with the wild-west-internet. The internet now is more corporate and "serious". You have an entire generation of workers who only ever knew the internet in its walled off / corporate form. And then you have folks want to "just get work done". So you'll continue to see fewer of these harmless chicanery.

Google used to be fun and do them. Now they don't. The internet isn't fun anymore

every year there was so much backlash, especially after 2020

i agree, there was so much backlash, kinda wowed me honestly

Google's still got it. This year they announced they were purging data they vacuumed up from Chrome users in incognito mode. Oh Google you little scamp!

The Gmail mic drop thing was funny because there was a bug that would cause it to get sent even if you pressed the regular send button.

For the mature audience... the Lock Picking Lawyer did a great one this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg

I thought Open Asteroid Impact was pretty insightful. https://openasteroidimpact.org/

I saw a bunch of them. But not on HN.

This one was the best:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=171200100510963&w=2

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