It's been second chanced and "shadow time altered" (probably).

          This post number is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45557970
  A post from 7 hours past is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630962

You can see from the ID number that this post really is much older than seven hours.

( bonus l33tc0d3 qu3est: knock up something to probe and plot posts per unit time, etc. ( I'm taking my dad to the shop instead ) )

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 * https://news.ycombinator.com/pool