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"It's one day in 365, it provides a little bit of relief."

Traditionally, 'April Fools' pranks were one morning at the start of April, and the gags ended at midday.

It's never worked properly on the internet and has bled either side to something like 2 days, internet time. That's a non-significant amount of time as a proportion of the year to have to deal with bogus shit.

You've just described how HN works.

I know, right? :)

Only upvote the good posts? Isn't that what's supposed to happen every day? Sounds like today is business as usual.