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How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Re: How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Post by moritzwarhier »

herodoturtle wrote: post #2

Article is behind a paywall for me. Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

It annoys me too, but is not unusual for journalism submissions here.

HN sometimes likes to discuss texts that weren't published as a free contribution on some blog by a dev with lots of time on their hand.

It's not forbidden to post paywalled links on HN, AFAIK.

I also struggle to see an alternative when it comes to professional journalism.

Maybe a kind soul will be able to share a gift link.

Re: How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Post by pmontra »

herodoturtle wrote: post #2

Article is behind a paywall for me. Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

Reader mode bypasses it. It's only a JS layer on top of content that's already inside the HTML doc.

Disabling first party JS works too, using umatrix or similar tools. The site works perfectly without JS.

Edit: because of all of that, of course view source bypasses the paywall too and reveals tons of inlined CSS.

Re: How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Post by rdevilla »

pmontra wrote: post #6
herodoturtle wrote: post #2

Article is behind a paywall for me. Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

Reader mode bypasses it. It's only a JS layer on top of content that's already inside the HTML doc. Disabling first party JS works too, using umatrix or similar tools. The site works perfectly without JS. Edit: because of all of that, of course view source bypasses the paywall too and reveals tons of inlined CSS.

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Re: How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Post by tomhow »

sltkr wrote: post #7
herodoturtle wrote: post #2

Article is behind a paywall for me. Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

https://archive.is/8GB36 I agree with you though, it's obnoxious to share paywalled articles on Hacker News.

Please don't post snarky comments like this on HN. We've wrestled with this for a long time and have settled on the least worst solution: paywalled articles are only allowable if there's an easy workaround that everyone access, like Archive.is, which you've helpfully shared. It's annoying that we have to deal with this issue but we're still better off with the articles than not.

We can do without mean words like “obnoxious” for people contributing interesting articles for the community to read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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