CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

Reaction to April Fools and Online Pranks

• Many commenters immediately note the date and dismiss the article as an April Fools joke.
• Several express fatigue or irritation: calling it “useless internet day,” saying the tradition now “just adds noise,” or that in a disinformation-heavy world it feels less fun.
• Others defend it as a once-a-year chance for light-hearted fun and say they enjoyed this particular joke.
• Some worry that online April Fools posts persist indefinitely and will confuse people long after the day.

Bad-Taste Pranks and Boundaries

• A detailed anecdote describes a VPN provider sending a realistic email claiming the user’s data was compromised, then revealing it as a joke; the commenter cancelled their subscription.
• Others largely side with the customer, seeing that kind of security-related prank as unacceptable.
• A few people joke about replicating such pranks, but this is met with pushback.

Humor, Maturity, and HN Culture

• There’s disagreement over whether finding April Fools unfunny is a sign of maturity or of being “overly serious.”
• Some argue appreciation of humor increases with age; others claim recognizing April Fools as lame is the more “mature” stance.
• HN itself is ribbed as lacking a sense of humor, which prompts meta-jokes in reply.

Theoretical Physics Side Thread

• One commenter complains nothing interesting has happened in theoretical physics for 50 years and calls this kind of thing “lame.”
• Replies cite recent advances but are challenged as being mostly experimental or pre‑1990 theory.
• The Wolfram Physics Project is mentioned as “mind-expanding” but criticized for weak connections to mainstream theory.

Sheep/Quantum Wordplay and Article Cues

• Large subthreads play along with the premise: entangled sheep, “fermionic superfluid” flocks, tunneling sheep, and Bell’s theorem adapted to sheep bells.
• Ongoing puns: “set the baa,” “Lamb Shift,” “spherical sheep,” “baazons,” “baa-ket notation,” and playful speculation about radiation-exposed CERN sheep.
• Multiple people admit they read surprisingly far before catching the joke from clues like “baa,” “Lamb Shift,” names, or the date.

AI, LLMs, and Scraping

• Some worry such content will mislead language models; others test an LLM that correctly identifies the article as an April Fools joke.
• There’s tongue-in-cheek speculation about using April 1–dated content as an anti-scraping tactic.