NYT doesn’t paywall until you’ve read multiple articles in a month. Since you already like it perhaps you should subscribe. Or clear your cookies.
Just to play a bit of devil's advocate, I don't like NYT, but as a willful participant of HN I must read the articles linked for discussion, which inevitably eats up NYT hits.
The problem is that I like HN, and I feel a duty to read the article that is up for discussion if I am to participate in the discussion itself.
tl;dr : paywall news hits coming from a news aggregator and discussion site is not an espescially useful metric in determining how much of your user base 'likes' your service.