There’s a convention for this that has been established over many years: - If it has a hard paywall the link is not allowed and should be flagged or removed by

There’s a convention for this that has been established over many years: - If it has a hard paywall the link is not allowed and should be flagged or removed by moderators (or changed to an accessible source) - If it has a porous paywall (usually that means it can be reached via archive.ph), someone should post a link to it, and mods will pin it to the top of the thread. The outcome is that there should never be content on HN that is inaccessible to anyone. Sometimes it may be annoying to have to get to it via the comments and an archive link, but that’s less annoying than content that is accessible being banished from HN altogether. Everyone knows it’s an imperfect solution, it’s just the least imperfect. Dang’s explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34130115