You don't have to login to gain the primary value, which is finding the best education content. You can click on the links as they're sorted by the community.

You don't have to login to gain the primary value, which is finding the best education content. You can click on the links as they're sorted by the community. To join the community, you create a username and a password. That's it. Which is exactly what you had to do to create your account for Hacker News...