previous HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148
This may not technically be a new feature but slight variations on the same thing are very much in the bucket that that rule is meant to address.
This is a special case of a more general issue: follow-up posts [1] are not great for HN because they are repetitive, and curiosity withers under repetition. The test we apply is whether a post contains significant new information [2].
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...