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This thread with all these comments (the ones up when I wrote this) was posted three days ago. Here's a post that referenced it then: https://news.ycombinator.c

• lagniappe 2y ago
  I suppose you'll find the number of licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop before you get an answer to this that makes any sense. Nonetheless, I do have hope someone will ackshually me into an explanation.
  • deleted 2y ago
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  • wizzwizz4 2y ago
    <del>A wizard</del> <ins>dang</ins> did it.
• ziddoap 2y ago
  Second chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 >HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page. Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. These get put into a hopper from which software randomly picks one every so often and lobs it randomly onto the lower part of the front page. If it interests the community, it gets upvoted and discussed; if not, it falls off.
  • bulatb 2y ago
    > lobs it randomly onto the lower part of the front page That is where it was. So the process posts a copy of the article and comments with the current date? But gives it the old URL?
    • ziddoap 2y ago
      As far as I am aware, it just updates the timestamps of the original to the time of the 'lobbing'.
• walterbell 2y ago
  > I'd like to know why this happens Reviewed by humans: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool