Well I for one am not interested in 90% of submissions here but like you I have to live with the voting system here to take care of this... and I simply don't read what I'm not interested in. Since GitHub does not notify me satisfactorily about new releases -- "watching" projects gives me a huge noisy stream about all their various activities so a new release gets lost in that stream -- and since twitter.com/nodejs is unfortunately not maintained, YC HN is an outstanding way to get notified about new NodeJS, jQuery etc. releases.