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This is the exact submission.

Odd. Listed as posted 3 days ago in the search, but pointing at this edition. This specific article must have hit the second chance filter.

There's plenty of other reviews dated a month ago however.

It's interesting that HN seems to take steps to try to hide that an article is on its second chance.

For example consider the top level comment by jfim. Right now HN is telling me that it is 2 hours old when viewed from the main article view. It also says 2 hours old if I click on the comment's timestamp to view the comment separately.

But if I click "reply" then on the reply composition screen it says that comment is 1 day old.

The article itself says it is from 11 hours ago, but checking on search I see it was actually 3 days ago.

So first question is where does the 11 hours ago come from? Is that when the article was given a second chance?

How about the 1 hours ago for jfim's day old comment? If the article got its second chance 11 hours ago and I had looked at it 10 hours ago, what time would it have shown for that comment?

Are the fake times stored in the DB, or does it generate them algorithmically when it shows a second chance article? Why does the reply page show the original date?

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