FWIW as a casual observer, “this software exists and can do these things” is way more useful than “software I know nothing about got a new feature that I don’t understand because I don’t have the context of knowing what the software is or what it does” :)
Responding to the original comment before it got edited:
> Google still works for all, as I know.
So I should google everything that hits the front page of HN, even if I already read the original link and it looks boring, just in case it might be actually be relevant to my interests but the submitter chose a particularly non-representative example to share…?
I think the current approach of “link to the discussion-worthy part” is fine :3