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

dougaitken · 2011-12-07T00:47:42.000Z

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)

pg 14 years ago |

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

noamsml 14 years 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.

smokeyj 14 years ago | | |

is this his mother?

dougaitken 14 years ago | |

How do you mean?

seanwoods 14 years ago | | |

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

dougaitken 14 years ago | | |

ah! I thought he meant "reply".

repl.

I'm such a programming n00b.

aaronbrethorst 14 years ago | | |

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

wglb 14 years ago | | |

May well be run from the repl always.

kylec 14 years 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.

katelyndrchrono 14 years ago | |

im katelyn :)

dougaitken 14 years ago | |

Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar

veb 14 years ago | |

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

keeran 14 years ago |

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

raldi 14 years ago |

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

jarek 14 years 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.

dougaitken 14 years ago | |

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

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

jwhitlark 14 years ago |

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.

dougaitken 14 years 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.

jwhitlark 14 years ago | | |

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

dougaitken 14 years ago | | |

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.

giulivo 14 years ago | | |

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

mcs 14 years ago |

I'm not crazy!

chrisbennet 14 years ago | |

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

amjith 14 years ago |

Wow, this is news now?

haraball 14 years ago | |

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

zyfo 14 years ago | |

It's not news for hackers anyway.

eslaught 14 years ago |

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