Just me, or are there more [dead] submissions on Hacker News lately?
SwellJoe: In addition to the big increase in spam and off-topic stuff lately, usually from accounts that just signed up to spam us, dupes have become a lot more common from old-timers.  Not sure why that is.  The volume of stuff making it to the front page is still low enough for it to be easy to check the past three days or so before submitting something.