Comment by dang

1 year ago

Related. Others?

The origin of circuits (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.

If you’re up for sharing, I’m curious to know approximately how many hours each week you spend working on HN. It seems like it would be an enormous amount of time, but I’m just guessing.

Did something funky happen to the timestamps in this thread? I could've sworn I was reading it last night (~12h ago)

  • I think dang did something manual to push it back to the frontpage, and that reset the timestamps on everyone’s existing comments…

    There is a comment here by me which says “2 hours ago”, I swear I wrote it longer ago than that - indeed, my threads page still says I wrote it 20 hours ago, so it is like part of the code knows when I really wrote it, another part now thinks I wrote it 18 hours later than I did…

    • Yes, the relativized timestamps only show on /news (i.e. the frontpage) and /item pages. You can always see the original timestamps on other pages, like /submitted, /from, or (as you say) /threads.

      Edit: I checked the code and the actual list is:

        '(news item reply show ask active best over classic).