It's extremely helpful that the first comment in this thread points to a non-paywalled version of the article. This seems to happen quite a lot, and it says a

It's extremely helpful that the first comment in this thread points to a non-paywalled version of the article. This seems to happen quite a lot, and it says a lot about the HN community. Still, wouldn't it be nice if HN automatically inserted a paywall-status indication in titles?