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HN bug? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=johnramsden says 16 hours ago but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17413350 says 1 hour ago. Maybe related to the thing where resubmitting a URL gets deduped into a vote for the original…

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Not a bug. If a post gets re-upped by the mods, the timestamp as shown on the frontpage will be temporarily changed to match the re-up time. Otherwise people will get confused about why an old post with few upvotes is still on the front page.

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