alt Hacker NewsHang on... My comment was not made "hours ago". It was made 3 days (2026-08-29) before this post reached the front page.
You can hover over the "hours ago" link and the timestamp does not match the title.
Why is the timestamp of my comment (and many others) of this post manipulated? Was this post recently merged with another duplicate?
"second-chance" pool or the "repost invited" pool. Seems it's not on https://news.ycombinator.com/invited so "second-chance" seems to be what happened. Introduced a mere 5 years ago :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Interesting you've been here at least since then and haven't noticed it before, happens relatively often, dare I say at least once a day?