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This HN post is seven days old but displayed and ranked as if it was posted 9 hours ago, with all timestamps falsified. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and

This HN post is seven days old but displayed and ranked as if it was posted 9 hours ago, with all timestamps falsified. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%20buttons%20apparently%20hacked%20to%20imitate%20Musk%2C%20Zuck%20voices&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...

zniturah 2y ago
How is it technically possible?
- greyface- 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (specifically, this post can be found on page 8: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425 https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425)
  - denysvitali 2y ago
    Can confirm. Once dang pinged me directly by email saying that my story was re-upped. The story went again to the frontpage and the date was adapted (IIRC), but the comments were kept: --- Hi denysvitali, The submission "PostmarketOS-Powered Kubernetes Cluster" that you posted to Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075) looks good, but hasn't had much attention so far. We put it in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page some time in the next day or so. This is a way of giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you're curious, you can read about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and other links there. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Let us know and we won't do it again. Thanks for posting good things to HN! Daniel (moderator)
ryandrake 2y ago
Wild! I definitely remember commenting on this last week and sure enough my comment shows below as “8 hours ago” (while I was asleep). What kind of sorcery is going on?
- yellowapple 2y ago
  HN has a "second chance queue" for posts that the powers-that-be believe could've/should've gotten more attention but didn't. Happened to one of my posts once, which was confusing as all hell at first but made sense once I learned about it.
  - datavirtue 2y ago
    Feature in search of a problem
    - rtkwe 2y ago
      Not really. Interesting posts can get buried easily just because they were posted at a bad time and people don't delve that far into the second or further pages. It's been going for almost 9 years now. I think it's a good idea.
      - immibis 2y ago
        Ok but why do they falsify all the comment timestamps?
        a_t48 2y ago
        Probably a limitation of the hotness/sorting algo.
        rtkwe 2y ago
        To complete the illusion of freshness I guess. I don't see a big issue with doing that as part of the feature.

zniturah 2y ago

How is it technically possible?

greyface- 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (specifically, this post can be found on page 8: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425 https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425)
- denysvitali 2y ago
  Can confirm. Once dang pinged me directly by email saying that my story was re-upped. The story went again to the frontpage and the date was adapted (IIRC), but the comments were kept: --- Hi denysvitali, The submission "PostmarketOS-Powered Kubernetes Cluster" that you posted to Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352075) looks good, but hasn't had much attention so far. We put it in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page some time in the next day or so. This is a way of giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you're curious, you can read about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and other links there. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Let us know and we won't do it again. Thanks for posting good things to HN! Daniel (moderator)

ryandrake 2y ago

Wild! I definitely remember commenting on this last week and sure enough my comment shows below as “8 hours ago” (while I was asleep). What kind of sorcery is going on?

yellowapple 2y ago
HN has a "second chance queue" for posts that the powers-that-be believe could've/should've gotten more attention but didn't. Happened to one of my posts once, which was confusing as all hell at first but made sense once I learned about it.
- datavirtue 2y ago
  Feature in search of a problem
  - rtkwe 2y ago
    Not really. Interesting posts can get buried easily just because they were posted at a bad time and people don't delve that far into the second or further pages. It's been going for almost 9 years now. I think it's a good idea.
    - immibis 2y ago
      Ok but why do they falsify all the comment timestamps?
      - a_t48 2y ago
        Probably a limitation of the hotness/sorting algo.
      - rtkwe 2y ago
        To complete the illusion of freshness I guess. I don't see a big issue with doing that as part of the feature.