Just about anything with 'Rust' in the title makes it to the front page.
Note that HN's ranking algorithm also rapidly sinks things off the front page whose titles contain common keywords like "Rust", "Go", "Apple", etc.
That's an interesting observation, but not true!
As far as stories like this go, we do penalize minor release announcements across the board (unless there's something there that gratifies intellectual curiosity), but that's done manually.
Interesting, thanks for the insight. :)
The argument is flawed because the system doesn't ask for the majority's opinion. I consider minor releases just noise personally.
Yep. To put it simply: it would be quite different if every user had a downvote button available.