Sincerely, perhaps you should publish on arxiv before a researcher reads it to run it and write a study.
It's fairly common we notice these types of threads where one thing is being postulated and then there's comments upon comments of doer's showing what they have done.
The AI world moves at a blistering pace. Academic publishing does not. In this particular case the "random dude on HN" is probably six to nine months ahead of the academic publication, not in the sense of being that much smarter but literally just being that much further progressed through time relative to the academic publication pipeline.
Accuracy is relevant though, and testing your assumptions before heading out, or keeping track of the particular changes (if any) aroudn what you're publishing is another thing.
Still, you have a more valid point :). Publishing is about publishing, not necessarily progress.
I just want folks on HN to remember they might be the cutting edge, or the tip of the arrow more times than they realize.
It's fairly common we notice these types of threads where one thing is being postulated and then there's comments upon comments of doer's showing what they have done.