If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. Please see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Paywalls suck and are annoying, but HN would be worse without WSJ, NYT, the New Yorker, the Economist, and so on. Hopefully someone will eventually fix publishing on the web, and then we won't have either the paywall problem or the paywall complaint problem.