I would love to read this, but keep getting blocked by paywalls.
Have you tried blocking JavaScript? It works fine here in Firefox with NoScript and in Dillo (which has no JS support).
(Title of the reason.com post linked above)
This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Thanks to everyone who summarized or referred me elsewhere.