HACKER Q&A
📣 rurban

Where are all this years April fools jokes?


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


  👤 ahazred8ta Accepted Answer ✓
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


👤 tpurves

👤 ado__dev
April Fools jokes don't create shareholder value.

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

👤 mikewarot
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/


👤 cpach
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