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Hm, but what are the actual changes that PG suggests? For example, would PG suggest changing HN's rules so that Sci-Hub is a first-class source of articles? Thi

Hm, but what are the actual changes that PG suggests? For example, would PG suggest changing HN's rules so that Sci-Hub is a first-class source of articles? This very submission notes that it is not just from "twitter.com", but from "twitter.com/paulg", so there's no technical obstacle to this functionality. Similarly, would PG suggest changing HN's rules so that links to paywalled sites are automatically replaced with links to unpaywalled versions? FWIW I am in favor of all of this, but I am not really sure that PG actually wants to follow through; rather, this is a bland partisan position statement meant to allow PG to say in the future that they have always been a big supporter of Sci-Hub.

jolmg 6y ago
> This very submission notes that it is not just from "twitter.com", but from "twitter.com/paulg", That's not because it's PG. The change was made relatively recently to include usernames for some sites, I think github too. Otherwise "twitter.com" is too uninformative. Here's the announcement for that feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456
- myWindoonn 6y ago
  Yes, you're correct. What I should have said is that, since we can do special things for twitter.com, we should be able to do special things for URLs which point to Sci-Hub. I don't know at which point things become legally uncomfortable, but it currently only takes three clicks to turn a DOI into a Sci-Hub link even without HN's assistance.
  - jolmg 6y ago
    > I don't know at which point things become legally uncomfortable, I think that's at the point that HN does special accommodations for the use of Sci-Hub. Converting links to unpaywalled versions would be the same. I don't follow PG, so I might be wrong, but consider that this tweet is very terse. I think one can't extrapolate much from it.

jolmg 6y ago

> This very submission notes that it is not just from "twitter.com", but from "twitter.com/paulg", That's not because it's PG. The change was made relatively recently to include usernames for some sites, I think github too. Otherwise "twitter.com" is too uninformative. Here's the announcement for that feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456

myWindoonn 6y ago
Yes, you're correct. What I should have said is that, since we can do special things for twitter.com, we should be able to do special things for URLs which point to Sci-Hub. I don't know at which point things become legally uncomfortable, but it currently only takes three clicks to turn a DOI into a Sci-Hub link even without HN's assistance.
- jolmg 6y ago
  > I don't know at which point things become legally uncomfortable, I think that's at the point that HN does special accommodations for the use of Sci-Hub. Converting links to unpaywalled versions would be the same. I don't follow PG, so I might be wrong, but consider that this tweet is very terse. I think one can't extrapolate much from it.