Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second.(dougaitken.tumblr.com)

139 pointsby dougaitken15 yıl önce29 comments

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Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second.

http://dougaitken.tumblr.com/post/13849170869/hacker-news-ev-news

Did I just see a Easter Egg / Glitch / A/B test?

Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second there!

Refreshed in a new tab & it was back to Hacker news.

(click source in the link for full scrnsht)

9 comments

pg15 yıl önce

I was just demoing the convenience of the repl to Ev Kontsevoy of Mailgun.

noamsml15 yıl önce

I'm really amused by the fact that not only do you make visible modifications to a popular site you own as a talking point, but as other comments suggest, you seem to make a habit of it.

smokeyj15 yıl önce

is this his mother?

dougaitken15 yıl önce

How do you mean?

seanwoods15 yıl önce

Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?

dougaitken15 yıl önce

ah! I thought he meant "reply".

repl.

I'm such a programming n00b.

aaronbrethorst15 yıl önce

Best book ever: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

wglb15 yıl önce

May well be run from the repl always.

kylec15 yıl önce

9 months ago I caught a screenshot of it titled "Katelyn News" as well:

http://i.imgur.com/eDzEc.jpg

The green title bar is just my personal setting, that didn't change.

katelyndrchrono15 yıl önce

im katelyn :)

dougaitken15 yıl önce

Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar

veb15 yıl önce

nice. gender specific. i'd be able to get rid of my gf. :)

keeran15 yıl önce

pg was playing drinking games with @ev and he lost a bet? :)

raldi15 yıl önce

What does "(click source for full scrnsht)" mean?

jarek15 yıl önce

The source link is the little square icon with "dl.dropbox.com" text label, it links to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png which is the full-size image.

dougaitken15 yıl önce

i linked the screenshot as the source on my tumblr post.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png

jwhitlark15 yıl önce

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.

dougaitken15 yıl önce

So glad I'm not the only one. Been wracking my brain trying to think why it'd have a rename, even for a day.

jwhitlark15 yıl önce

I've been checking HN off and on all day, and I only saw it once.

dougaitken15 yıl önce

sorry, I mean't why it would be renamed, not that it had been. Like when pg puts the blackbar at the top for a death, maybe this was related to something.

giulivo15 yıl önce

so this was not an hoax? (not just a modified screenshot I mean)

[deleted]15 yıl önce

(1)

mcs15 yıl önce

I'm not crazy!

chrisbennet15 yıl önce

Well...the jury is still out on that. ;-)

amjith15 yıl önce

Wow, this is news now?

haraball15 yıl önce

I'd call it interesting news if hackernews got hacked.

zyfo15 yıl önce

It's not news for hackers anyway.

eslaught15 yıl önce

Was this a test, or vandalization? (If this wasn't intended, I'd review my security settings about now...)