Do you think it'd be worth adding a feature to link those automatically?

Probably, but it's not obvious how to write software that gets that right, i.e. finds the interesting links that a human would find via searching, while omitting the uninteresting or unrelated ones.

This case is a good example. I found it by searching on the domain and the word 'salary'. But could software have picked it out of https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=iwantmyname.com?