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by sctb 3322 days ago
We do penalize minor release articles, and there are software protections against abusive downvoting. What we need from you is no more comments like these. It's not criticism, they simply break the guidelines.
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The spamming of this site by these kinds of projects has gone far enough that it has now been parodied in a television series:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/6cy0x3/th...

Quote on the whiteboard by the character "Gilfoyle" in "Silicon Valley":

HACKER NEWS!!! Get friends to upvote

One would have to be extremely naive to think that anyone except friends of the authors would upvote a link to a changelog for version 0.17.0 of a "new programming language" on this site.