I can't remember if there's a specific term for it, but I believe HN has some way of giving a story a "second chance", which must have been used here and seems

I can't remember if there's a specific term for it, but I believe HN has some way of giving a story a "second chance", which must have been used here and seems to involve resetting the timestamps. I don't know if this link will continue working, but if you look at it through this view, the comment that you're replying to shows as "2 days ago": https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oldgradstudent&next=18223066 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oldgradstudent&next=... But if you link to it directly, it shows as (currently) "4 hours ago": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223066 I can understand the second-chance idea, but lying about when comments were posted is very strange.