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Sometimes HN admins revive quality posts that didn't get much traction when they were first posted. When this happens, the timestamps are updated to make the po
by 333c 8mo ago
Sometimes HN admins revive quality posts that didn't get much traction when they were first posted. When this happens, the timestamps are updated to make the post look new.
I can't say for sure whether this is what happened here, but it is a possible explanation.
- eddyg 8mo agoThis post did in fact go through the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (For more details on posts getting “rescued”, see Dan’s comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380)