That's HN's "second chance" feature. The relative timestamps are faked to look new so the discussion doesn't look stale. The real time stamps are still displaye

That's HN's "second chance" feature. The relative timestamps are faked to look new so the discussion doesn't look stale. The real time stamps are still displayed on hover / in the alt text. I'm not sure why this was second chanced four days later considering that it spent a fair amount of time on the front page. Maybe a misclick. e: misremembered, it apparently wasn't on the front page: https://hnrankings.info/39786663/ https://hnrankings.info/39786663/