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Meta: I'd not realised that Sci-Hub was a permitted site on HN. It appears that it has been since at least 2019 looking at the site submission history link.

I'm not in the least displeased to learn this.

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If this is the meta-thread ... this presentation is horrible for mobile and defeats HN's forewarning about PDFs.

With regards to mobile browsers, this can be mitigated with charitable practices similar to paywall avoidance, where a considerate user could reply with the direct link to the PDF. This is not necessarily easy on sci-hub (you have to do some poking around with your browser's dev tools), but can be useful if the DOI is queried in Anna's Archive.

This specific paper isn't available on AA, but to whom it may intrigue I think this works:

https://sci-hub.ru/downloads/2019-02-19/0c/10.1016@B978-0-12...

Just curious, why did you think it wouldn’t be?

"Sci-Hub is a shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, without regard to copyright,[4] by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Many of us approve of that.

Many of us do, indeed.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33698018>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781277>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652359>

(The /r/dredmorbius links in the comments linked above may be seen at the Internet Archive, as that subreddit has been taken private in protest of Reddit's recent policy direction.)

I'd discussed HN's linking SciHub directly with dang back in 2016, at which time his response was "I think that degree of anthill-overturning would be past prudent."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984443>

Apparently the anthill has been overturned for some time. No data on time/distance from prudent.

What are the non-permitted sites? Spam or other abuse, or consistently poor quality news sites?

There's a 2009 list of 2,096 banned sites posted by pg, along with general rationales:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910>

I'm not aware of a more current list.

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