Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. As long as the paywalls have workarounds, they're ok here. They suck and are annoying to everyone, but HN would be worse without WSJ, NYT, the New Yorker, the Economist, etc., so this is a lesser-evil solution. Hopefully someone will eventually fix publishing on the web, and then we won't have either the paywall problem or the paywall complaint problem.

The situation is made less annoying by users posting workarounds in the threads, which they usually do, and have done in this one.