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April Fools’ Day Announcements

I did this a few years ago and it was well received.

Instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.

( 4 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:April Fools’ Day Announcements by dmatrix on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:16PM (#16729011)
Title: Introducing Data Brick™: The Building Block of DataBricks’ Unified Analytics Platform Link: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/04/01/introducing-data-bric...
Re:April Fools’ Day Announcements by conroy on Sunday April 01, 2018 @11:45AM (#16728851)
Re:April Fools’ Day Announcements by greenyoda on Sunday April 01, 2018 @02:54PM (#16729820)
Someone already tried that this year, but it doesn't seem to be very popular:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727012

Re:April Fools’ Day Announcements by milesward on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:24PM (#16729960)
HummusAPI from Google Cloud: https://youtu.be/0_5X6N6DHyk