I've noticed that lots of links are marked as [dead] in the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest. Never seen so many of these before. What's going on?
Most of the [dead] I see are from newly registered accounts and most are for sites I would expect to see flagged. I am just guessing but I would suspect new spam bots being created and tested during certain times of the day. Only @dang could say for sure as he would have access to the logs.<p>I try to vouch the submissions that look legit but there are so many to review it starts to feel like a job and I am supposed to be retired and relaxing.
Dead comments are collapsed on mass, which is new as well.<p>I'd assume in error, since it's overriding the principal of "Show Dead".<p>Also lots of not dead but collapsed comments.