It would be cool if these sorts of internal references were implemented as a feature of HN, so the headlines and comment counts are up to date whenever they are displayed.

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dang 2 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe someday! but it's not always easy to do this without human intervention, since the matches aren't strictly URL based. Maybe a good LLM could do it.

	▲	snowwrestler a day ago \| parent [-]
		I meant a feature a human activates. Like if you manually drop a HN URL into a comment, the site adds in the visible metadata when it publishes. Or a “related” feature, separate from normal comments, that only admins can access. You manually designate the related posts and then the site displays them dynamically. But yeah, fully automated would be pretty amazing, but challenging.