Missing Article Dates

Users complain about articles lacking visible publication dates, causing confusion on Hacker News when old content is reposted, and suggest adding dates to HN titles for clarity.

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TOS THIS lobste.rs OP HN archive.org gold.html tcp.html sites.inka ICLR date dates article publish title reader dated publication january pet

Sample Comments

thrdbndndn Apr 9, 2022 View on HN

Shouldn't the date be the date of when the article was written (i.e. 2020)?

ollemasle Sep 18, 2023 View on HN

Adding the date in the HN title would be better (it is not present in the article)

sakex May 21, 2025 View on HN

Maybe add the date to the title, because it's hardly new at this point

trymas Jan 3, 2025 View on HN

Needs a date in the title - this was posted a number of times here when it was published.

anigbrowl Jan 5, 2018 View on HN

Good article. the timestamp is from 1st January; I wonder why the date of publication isn't included in the text. I wasted several minutes trying to figure out whether this was a new or old article.

izzytcp Jan 5, 2021 View on HN

Old news dude, you got fooled by post date.

ssanders82 Oct 15, 2008 View on HN

Anyone else notice that the date on this article is 6 days into the future? And the url as well.

oijawef Sep 7, 2016 View on HN

this shows off really well one of my pet peeves: news/blog pages that don't include the date anywherethis change is over two years old :|

comonoid Nov 16, 2020 View on HN

Look at the date of the post :)))

peterhunt Dec 24, 2011 View on HN

Look at the date of the post, guys.