Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second. (opens in new tab)

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139 pointsdougaitken14y ago29 comments

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)

29 comments

pg14y ago

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

noamsml14y ago

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.

smokeyj14y ago

is this his mother?

dougaitkenOP14y ago

How do you mean?

seanwoods14y ago

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

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kylec14y ago

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.

katelyndrchrono14y ago

im katelyn :)

dougaitkenOP14y ago

Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar

veb14y ago

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

keeran14y ago

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

raldi14y ago

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

jarek14y ago

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.

dougaitkenOP14y ago

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

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

jwhitlark14y ago

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.

dougaitkenOP14y ago

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.

jwhitlark14y ago

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

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giulivo14y ago

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

mcs14y ago

I'm not crazy!

chrisbennet14y ago

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

amjith14y ago

Wow, this is news now?

haraball14y ago

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

zyfo14y ago

It's not news for hackers anyway.

eslaught14y ago

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

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29 comments

pg14y ago

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

noamsml14y ago

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.

smokeyj14y ago

is this his mother?

dougaitkenOP14y ago

How do you mean?

seanwoods14y ago

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

2 more replies

kylec14y ago

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.

katelyndrchrono14y ago

im katelyn :)

dougaitkenOP14y ago

Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar

veb14y ago

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

keeran14y ago

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

raldi14y ago

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

jarek14y ago

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.

dougaitkenOP14y ago

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

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

jwhitlark14y ago

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.

dougaitkenOP14y ago

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.

jwhitlark14y ago

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

1 more reply

giulivo14y ago

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