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HN's policies and norms around paywalled articles are well-established and oft-discussed.

Here are two recents comments by moderator dang explaining his position:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255444

Workaround links for major news publications can usually be generated on https://archive.md. In this case:

https://archive.md/YGrVx

https://pastebin.com/YL7V8r0h

On a slow connection, if you cancel the request before the paywall loads you can read it.

Lol 3rd world niceties

Something very similar was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979

Which links to: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...

Do you also work for free and expect news to be always free?

I didn’t say it should be free. I just think if your sharing articles for discussion you should share ones that everyone can read

Sometimes good article are behind a paywall, if you cannot access the an article using a workaround consider paying some money for those articles or just ignore it and move on.

Kind of ironic as well considering it was Bostock while at the NYT who released a number of widely used, and highly influential, open source libraries.

I'm able to view it in a private window in Firefox. Also, if you register for a free account with the New York Times you get a small number of articles free per month.

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