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This is a meta question, but I made a comment here twelve hours ago, and now it's showing the original post was from only 3 hours ago and that my comment was only 2 hours ago. What's going on with that? You can also see if you look at my comment profile history when I made that comment twelve hours ago it has the time correctly marked there but not in this thread.

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That happens when the post has been queued to the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

oh that's interesting how do posts get queued there

EDIT: i see they are picked manually "HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page. Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community."

That's _really_ weird

That's Hacker News. You've just discovered one of the hacks in play :).

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