Comment by googlryas
8 months ago
Why does HN lie? There are comments in this thread saying they were posted "18 hours ago" (eg from giraffe_lady), but I am positive I read these comments 3 days ago on the same thread.
8 months ago
Why does HN lie? There are comments in this thread saying they were posted "18 hours ago" (eg from giraffe_lady), but I am positive I read these comments 3 days ago on the same thread.
Might be some thread merging, dang sometimes does it, or might be a newish automatic feature I haven't heard about.
Oddly, if you search the story name it says it was actually posted 3 days ago, but directs tot his thread:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
You can email them and ask, email's in the faq. They do respond.
it's a boost feature, which basically resets the clock for a story (and since the ranking algorithm is influenced by newness a lot, it pushes it back up)
Dang was just proud of me for not calling anyone a coward or heretic in this one and wanted to make sure everyone saw.