[LordWinstanley]

You must be new here!

If [like I do], you browse HN by the "new" section, you'll see this time after time after time after time...

I don't know what's to be done about it. HN don't seem to care and it seems like a huge number of visitors to the site just can't be bothered spending a few seconds to check whether or not a story has already been submitted, before adding their own noise to the signal.

From the website management point of view one difficulty is that; on the intarwebs in general, the vast majority of these stories originate from a single news agency or press release and are then mirrored across countless other 'news' sites. So, in effect the problem increases exponentially: one story source is republished across 20 different websites and then each of those 20 website articles is submitted to HN by 20 different people.

[ColinWright]

> You must be new here!

I'm trying to work out if you're being serious.

    user:    ColinWright
    created: 2676 days ago
    karma:   83694

From https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders we have:

    1.	tptacek
    2.	jacquesm
    3.	patio11
    4.	ColinWright
    5.	danso

So no, I'm not new here.

And yes, I'm aware of the problems you cite, and I'm explicitly suggesting a measure that could be taken to help fix what I see, and you acknowledge, is an irritation.