> there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted > to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and > get to the top of the front page. A

> there are a lot of examples of items that get submitted > to HN and go unnoticed only to be posted 2 days later and > get to the top of the front page. Agreed, and I see that as a developing problem. It didn't seem to happen as often two years ago, or even one year ago, but it seems to be happening a lot now. A consequence is that a significant proportion of submissions are duplicated stories. It would be nice to ensure that stories people obviously like (because they are submitted repeatedly) actually got noticed the first time around. There are simply too many submissions for people to see them all, and so many good submissions are simply lost in the noise. If they get noticed then they get upvoted and hit the front page, but many sink without trace. The resubmissions are indirect evidence that we are missing potentially valuable stories. It would be nice to fix that.