Comment by jjulius

Comment by jjulius 2 days ago

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I'm so confused by this thread. I saw this comment days ago, but here it is, in this thread with a timestamp of "1 hour ago" while the whole thread itself is from "2 hours ago". But if I look at this user's comments, the comment is from three days ago and links back to this thread that, as we've established, claims it is from "2 hours ago".

To add to the fun, if I Google the comment enclosed in quotes, Google says the comment is from two days ago, but if I remove the quote, it says it's from five days ago.

What's happening?

alwayslikethis 2 days ago

HN has this thing called the second chance pool. Mods give some old submissions a second chance and timestamps are changed to make it look like a new post.