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Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second. (dougaitken.tumblr.com)
139 points by dougaitken 5302 days ago
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)

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I was just demoing the convenience of the repl to Ev Kontsevoy of Mailgun.
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.
is this his mother?
How do you mean?
Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?
ah! I thought he meant "reply".

repl.

I'm such a programming n00b.

May well be run from the repl always.
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.

im katelyn :)
Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar
nice. gender specific. i'd be able to get rid of my gf. :)
pg was playing drinking games with @ev and he lost a bet? :)
What does "(click source for full scrnsht)" mean?
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.
i linked the screenshot as the source on my tumblr post.

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

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.
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.
I've been checking HN off and on all day, and I only saw it once.
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.
so this was not an hoax? (not just a modified screenshot I mean)
I'm not crazy!
Well...the jury is still out on that. ;-)
Wow, this is news now?
I'd call it interesting news if hackernews got hacked.
It's not news for hackers anyway.
Was this a test, or vandalization? (If this wasn't intended, I'd review my security settings about now...)