This is a meta comment but I think something is a bit squiffy with the timestamps on HN at the moment - your reply was apparently sent before the comment you are replying to and then the tooltip timestamp shows as you can see (and the reply page here says your comment was 17 hours ago).

https://i.imgur.com/1B7rmX1.png

Probably the old 'timestamp confusion artifact' of the re-upping system - see past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...