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How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
17 points by tintinnabula 4 days ago | 6 comments
herodoturtle 2 hours ago
Article is behind a paywall for me.

Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

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sltkr 2 minutes ago
https://archive.is/8GB36

I agree with you though, it's obnoxious to share paywalled articles on Hacker News.

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pmontra 20 minutes ago
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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EGreg 34 minutes ago
That’s how much their silence was able to accomplish!
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moritzwarhier 27 minutes ago
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.

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TormentNexusAI 2 hours ago
The biggest win for AI dev efficiency is cutting down what gets loaded into context. Semantically matching tasks to the top tools helps a lot.
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