Re:Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
by graemep on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:53AM
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Paying for individual publications you like is fine.
Paying for all the publications that get articles on the HN front page would be very expensive. Only a minority of people reading HN would have subscribed to any one publication. The result is that paywalled articles can only be properly discussed by a minority people. It also encourages discussion of the headline instead of the article.
Re:Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
by acdha on Saturday August 15, 2026 @07:08AM
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That still seems better than saying that we have a right to use other people’s work on our terms. People used to subscribe to multiple magazines and that paid for a lot of journalists.
Paying for all the publications that get articles on the HN front page would be very expensive. Only a minority of people reading HN would have subscribed to any one publication. The result is that paywalled articles can only be properly discussed by a minority people. It also encourages discussion of the headline instead of the article.