These publications are well aware of their paywall design and what can or can't be done to work around them. If they wanted hardwalls they would have them. Some publications do, and those are off limits here (edit: unless they're willing to unlock the article for HN readers, which The Information, for example, does occasionally).

The situation is of course a mess, but until the publication business sorts itself out the way the music business eventually did, this is what we're left with. It sucks, but I don't know of any alternative that wouldn't suck worse.

The difference between comments asking for paywall workarounds and comments complaining about paywalls is that the former gives people new things to read (albeit via a layer of indirection) while the latter just repeats something we've all read ad nauseum. It isn't a question of agreeing or disagreeing, but of avoiding repetition. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...