3 ms·Handpicked good submissions get "boosted" by the mods, which rewrites their timestamps.by detaro 4y agoHandpicked good submissions get "boosted" by the mods, which rewrites their timestamps.droidist2 4y agoThat explains a lot! I've noticed a lot of times posts seemed older than their date says.asicsp 4y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool for a list of such posts.