Could you tell me where this was posted? I thought no one would see this after I got no comments the first day
No one I showed this to complained about the first example but online many people did. I wrote a completely different article which I think is much better that uses examples I would have used in the follow up. I'll post that article next week
Second chance pool. This post is, per your submission history, from 2 days ago. HN has a second chance pool that lets articles continue collecting upvotes (more easily than digging through the full history). Some of those articles will get their timestamp updated to artificially inflate their ranking. This brings them to the front page again and gives them their "second chance". After a few hours or whatever time, the timestamp is reverted and they'll start falling back into their natural place in the rankings.
No one I showed this to complained about the first example but online many people did. I wrote a completely different article which I think is much better that uses examples I would have used in the follow up. I'll post that article next week