I agree; it's terrible that journalists expect to be compensated for their labor.

Its weird having HN submission where only a subset of HNers can make comments though. I am happy for them to have a paywall but question whether it should be kept on HN if there is no information for most people to comment on.

It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content.

> It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content.

I'd wager, without proof for the moment, that the majority of books discussed on HN are 'paid books' at Amazon or elsewhere.

To be fair, Blindsight comes up on a very regular basis, and that's freely available on the author's web site. :)

But yeah, despite the increasing prevalence of legitimate free-to-air soft copies of books, paid is still the default.

Well, if 99% of the book was freely available for viewing on 9 other websites than Amazon, I bet that people would complain A LOT for being given a link to Amazon instead of one of the numerous readable sites.

It's not paywalled. NYTimes automatically redirects to the login page if you have cookies disabled.

The link works fine if you haven't disabled cookies - and that's on the user as much as it is on the NYTimes.

I don't have cookies disabled but I do have adblock and I get the paywall, but if I open it in an incognito window it shows so I'm guessing its also triggered by ABP (or some other condition).

So what can we do to stop these terrible things from happening?

Well, as all of us in Silicon Valley know, regulations are nothing more than irksome impediments to the march of progress. Let's roll 'em all back.

This is how I got in:

Open an Incognito window in Google Chrome. Go to nytimes.com. Search for "Common Swift Bird". Sort by "newest". Go read the article.

Does the web button underneath the story help you?

I was only able to get past the login page once I cleared all nytimes cookies from my browser.

Right click and open link in private/incognito window.

Enable cookies and click the link again.

Works in the Tor Browser.