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I saw it when it was live but only noticed it was flagged because of http://hckrnews.com. It's really the only way to browse at this point. So many flagged or dead stories (some that even have value) I never would have seen otherwise.

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If you want to see all the flagged/dead stories, you can also turn on "showdead" in your HN profile. That will make them appear on the "new" page when you're browsing HN. But the vast majority of dead stories are spam.

Most dead stories I see on hckrnews.com are worthwhile.

It looks like hckrnews shows only stories that have been upvoted, even if you select "all" (I couldn't find any stories with less than 3 points). That would exclude most of the junk that you'd see on HN's "new" page (like ads for escort services, etc.).

The disadvantage of that filtering is that you'd never have the opportunity to upvote good stories that nobody else has upvoted yet.

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