Turn on show dead in your profile and visit the "new" link (https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest). You'll see a lot of [dead]

Turn on show dead in your profile and visit the "new" link (https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest). You'll see a lot of [dead] links, those are the sort GP is referencing. [flagged][dead] are killed by user action (flags).