The transferable idea in Hacker News archive is not about HyperTIES:

the much more important thing was that it was not just a browser, but also an authoring tool, that enabled regular users to switch back and forth between browse mode and edit mode WHILE they were using it, and empowered users as authors.

The other tools of the time — including NeXT Interface Builder — split "run time" from "design time". The web kept the split. Netscape and IE later shipped half-assed WYSIWYG that produced terrible HTML and could not be applied to any page.

Don Hopkins's rule: without the ability to dynamically edit scripts at runtime, you can't hold a candle to HyperCard, because interactive scripting is an essential feature.

The lineage is now its own trail: HyperCard → GoodNeWS → HyperNeWS → HyperLook. Arthur van Hoff built that. Then the Java compiler in Java, then Bongo — editing and compiling event handlers at runtime.