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What's going on here? I swear I read a few days ago the exact same comments that were apparently posted here a few minutes ago. Is there some kind of strange du

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• mschuster91 2y ago
  That's the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 Apparently HN also rewrites comment timestamps, but can't find the relevant post.
  • perihelions 2y ago
    It does. It also has a rare race condition you can occasionally notice, where the fake-timestamp of the parent comment is in the future of that of the child comments.
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