Ask HN: What is the delay field for?

The default value is 3. In what units? What does this impact?

I wasn't able to find a post which defines this, but I did find some chatter about this field being related to comments...

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jlg23 10y ago ↗

A quick glance at https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/5a3296417d23d1ecc90... indicates that publications are delayed by this many minutes before being publicly visible.

Thought the code in the repo is 4 years old and could be outdated and I really just spent 2 minutes looking at it, including the googling for the code.