News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by Sytten on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:06PM (#17087804)
[Unrelated to the topic] Not sure if HN should allow articles that are behind a pay wall like WSJ. Thought?
Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by expiredtofu on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:38PM (#17087997)
It is a bit annoying, but you can click the "web" link right underneath the title, which sends you to a google search of the title [1]. Clicking the WSJ result gives you a paywall bypass.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=The%20Boss%20Who%20Banned%20...

Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by Sytten on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:42PM (#17088020)
Not working for me, but maybe depends on the country of the request?
Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by mdip on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:02PM (#17088114)
I believe this happens if you've already visited a link to the article (that's what happened to me). Try opening a private browser session, paste in the google link and click through to the article and it should bypass correctly (it worked for me!) :)
Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by imron on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:10PM (#17087832)
This comes up every time someone posts to WSJ.

They have relevant and interesting articles so the real solution is buy a subscriptions or use one of the many workarounds.

Outline works well:

https://outline.com/www.wsj.com/articles/can-you-handle-it-b...

Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by Sytten on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:38PM (#17088002)
I was not referring only to WSJ.

I don't believe it is realistic to expect people to pay for every pay wall that exists.

Thanks for the link though, I will use it.

Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by majormajor on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:54PM (#17088081)
I may not subscribe to everything, but I need to see the links to the content behind the paywalls to help me decide which to subscribe to.
Re:The Boss Who Banned Phones, and What Came Next by imron on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:21PM (#17088210)
> I don't believe it is realistic to expect people to pay for every pay wall that exists.

I don't either, but most paywalls are porous.