essays VS archiveis

Indeed, the US has committed human rights violations pretty consistently.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities...

Pretty much, but they are "the good guys", so you are gonna be stuck in an unskippable cutscene explaining yourself to people

"There's not enough info on this topic, please help by expanding it"

Waving that flag is showing support for all of this.

Refer to the faq. Or read theory.

What crimes?

like this https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md

Found this one a while back.

"https://archive.is is still the de-facto way to read NYT articles..."

It's popular on HN for sure, but archive.is only works where the NYT article is archived

Lighter weight, open source, local solutions like Bypass Paywalls Clean work on any NYT article regardless of whether archived

archive.is may be blocked for some internet subscribers in some countries

archive.is webpages are quite large and contain telemetry

For example,

https://[USER-IP-ADDRESS].us.TBT3.379913754.pixel.archive.is... type="text/javascript">

Lol I can't load that page either need to use https://archive.is/

i use this as a bookmark

javascript:location.href='https://archive.is/?run=1&url=%27+encodeURIComponent(documen...

Just find an archive link in the comments to bypass the paywall, or post one yourself by visiting e.g. https://archive.is/ and pasting the link in the bottom box "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots".

How do you get the https://archive.is/ for this article. For some reason I clicked this link https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.... from Reddit and opened without paywall. It may not work here. Why doesn't Hacker News make a deal with NYT to open without paywalls?

I frequently see comments from people explicitly or implicitly asking for links to bypass the paywall on submitted articles. I'm confused by this, since it takes about the same amount of effort to generate your own paywall bypassing link as it does to post a comment asking for someone else to do it. Going further and posting this link for others to use does add a step, but doesn't seem like a lot to ask.

What's happening here?

Do these posters think some special magic is required? Are they not aware that creating such a link just involves going to the top level domain of one of the services (eg, http://archive.is) and pasting the URL into a form?

Are they opposed to the idea of creating such a link themselves, either due to moral qualms or legal fears, but willing a follow a link that some else has created?

Are they using a handheld device that makes it so hard to copy a URL and open a new page that they don't know how to start, whereas they know how to write a comment?

Or are they just so entitled that they think someone else should provide for them at all times, and don't want to demean themselves helping others?

Can anyone who has posted such requests tell me what they were thinking? Can others who post bypass links tell me other explanations? General discussion on what the HN etiquette on paywall bypass links should be is welcomed as well.

Or save a bookmark in your browser and edit its destination to be this Javascript bookmarklet to let you load the archive.is version of any URL you're currently on without even needing to remember the domain or type anything:

javascript:void(location.href='https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(location....)

Or version for IA's Wayback Machine instead:

javascript:void(window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href))

Or this more complicated version of the Wayback Machine one, which if you click while on an empty tab will instead give you an alert with a text field in which to type or paste whatever URL you want to look up:

javascript:(function()%7Bif(location.href.indexOf('http')!=0)%7Binput=prompt('URL:','http://');if(input!=null)%7Blocation.href='http://web.archiv...