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by Terr_ 710 days ago
Weird, this seems to have been posted 3 days ago, but now both links converge and I swear I recognize older comments with falsely-newer timestamps.
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Second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

> There's one glitch that occasionally confuses people. When the software lobs a story, it displays a rolled-back timestamp—not the original submission time, but a resubmission time relative to other items on the front page

It was first posted 2024-07-01T09:39:05 - if you mouse over the "8 hours ago" you'll see the true time, or if you click past algolia will show you the age from original submission.
second chance pool. threads get merged and timestamps get updated. it's a bit confusing but no, you're not imagining things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308