Those trying to pick AI winners should remember the dotcom days

Pay wall

How is it that paywalled articles are getting so many upvotes?

Because Hacker News users respect paywalls and pay for content and totally would never click on the archive links that inevitably show up

I mean the more likely explanation is that a lot of HN readers have subscriptions to these publications.

It's a little bit of both in my case

People upvote headlines here.