Why does this say it was posted four hours ago on the front page, four days ago ...

thinkingemote · on March 15, 2025

at least 2 ways.

1. Moderators can re-submit interesting stories from a second chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (This might happen automatically from time to time?) When this happens some of the timestamps get updated but others dont.

2. Moderators can invite users via email to re-submit stories. https://news.ycombinator.com/invited

noodletheworld · on March 15, 2025

The threads have presumably been merged; look at the submitters in the history.

> 166 points|ksec|4 days ago|21 comments

> 168 points by ksec 4 hours ago

But yes; it’s a bit dodgy to resurface old news like this imo and pretend it’s new news.

I’d go as far as to say that being at #1, under the circumstances, means it’s been artificially boosted somehow.

I haven’t the foggiest why anyone would bother though.