Second chance pool, it's been a feature since before your account was created. It's a list (second link below) of submissions that didn't gain much traction and

Second chance pool, it's been a feature since before your account was created. It's a list (second link below) of submissions that didn't gain much traction and gets drawn from to add to the front page periodically. They get an artificially inflated ranking and temporarily changed submission time (which impacts ranking) to give them another chance. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool - Your submission is on the third page here https://news.ycombinator.com/invited https://news.ycombinator.com/invited - Another way old posts come back