With articles like this, I want a "check back in 2 years" reminder, to see how the science shakes out. I'm not smart or informed enough to judge these current events style updates for myself.
Check back the predictions of 2 years ago and compare to the reality of today.
I occasionally did check up on stories, but people rarely do follow-up reporting (especially for things that don't pan out), and Google searches usually just turn up 50 variations on the original story written from the original press release. It's a very unfortunate dynamic.
You could favorite the post and add a calendar reminder but I agree it would be a useful HN feature.
Reddit has the remindMe bot for that, HN should give us an exobrain too
Please, if somebody does this, let's not augment HN by littering the comments with bots.
I think a third of the comments here are already GPT3 experiments. Maybe yours included!
Bad bot
You don't think setting a reminder in your calendar for 2 years from now would suffice?
It's too much clicks away, it's should be a matter of one click
Surely this is more a deficit in your calendar software than it is anything else? Think of all of the work you could waste making new tooling, trying to replace something that already exists and serves the sole purpose of reminding you about things
You could make an account on ResearchGate and follow the authors of the paper if they're on there, see what they come up with next!