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From the HN FAQ:

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

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This will be why you are being downvoted.

It's not a paywall. To read the article click the link: "Full Text: PDF".

Why not linking to PDF directly then?

It's less opaque - there's an abstract, references/citations, etc. Also, I suspect I'm not the only one who doesn't want to be directly linked to things like PDFs that have a history of causing security issues.

I'm on mobile now so I appreciate being able to read the abstract without loading a whole PDF.

As long as you're not appreciating that because you're thinking the page with the abstract would be smaller, the PDF is about 30% the size of the web page.

Even if it were, this specific paywall is well worth it.