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Comment by RKoutnik | Hacker News Reader

You can skip the splash screen by running the following in the JS console:

    $('#TB_window').hide()
    $('#TB_overlay').hide()

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I am not as smart as you guys. I just added: ?page=0,0

to the end of any URL on that site. I guess I am more of a trouble shooter than a hacker. Glad to see other ways of doing the same thing.

Here is a clickable link for people who are as lazy as I am:

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/07/cameras_c...

I like $('#TB_window, #TB_overlay').hide() better :P

Why all those extra characters? :)

$('div[id^=TB_]').hide()

you geeks. just refresh the page and press ESC when it's just starting to load.

Your solution is the quickest but inapparent to many. It worked perfectly for me

It's amazing how many clever sites with clever JavaScript splash screens this works on. For instance, EmberCasts when it was "invite only" mode could be accessed this way.

Yea, but that requires timing. If you just click the favicon in Chrome there's a dropdown with permissions. Turn off JavaScript. Refresh.

You can also right click in Chrome or Safari and hit inspect element. It's not hard to figure out which nodes to \backspace from there.

Yep, that's what I did.

If you are using Safari, just hit the "Reader" button, and the story comes up above the splash screen.

This is also a good way to get around unusable "designed for iPad" interfaces when browsing on your iPad.

Ha! I love this! All the hackers faced with the 'register' wall. I dont consider myself a hacker, rather a game dev but I felt like a hacker just using firebug to delete the offending divs

Or you can just disable Javascript by default.

Or you can use google. When the referral is google sites can't have a paywall on the first page.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fthecable.fo...

Didn't stop it from happening when I loaded the page :(

Thank you noscript!

I just used ABP Element Hiding Helper.

Ha. I did the same thing before I read the comments.

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