Agreed, and also failed to promote my project a few times on HN. In January I've decided to take a different route and promote on /r/javascript instead and all of a sudden it got bumped to number 1. Got picked up by tbranyen and eventually jashkenas.
Oh, BTW, my Backbone-based grid clocks in only 6.2K minified and gzipped :) Much better documentation too. No column resizing and reordering at the moment, but working on it for the next version :P