How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

 (newyorker.com)

18 points | by tintinnabula 3 days ago

2 comments

  • herodoturtle 1 hour ago
    Article is behind a paywall for me.

    Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/

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    • pmontra 54 minutes ago
      Reader mode bypasses it. It's only a JS layer on top of content that's already inside the HTML doc.

      Disabling first party JS works too, using umatrix or similar tools. The site works perfectly without JS.

      Edit: because of all of that, of course view source bypasses the paywall too and reveals tons of inlined CSS.

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    • EGreg 1 hour ago
      That’s how much their silence was able to accomplish!
    • sltkr 36 minutes ago
      https://archive.is/8GB36

      I agree with you though, it's obnoxious to share paywalled articles on Hacker News.

    • moritzwarhier 1 hour ago
      It annoys me too, but is not unusual for journalism submissions here.

      HN sometimes likes to discuss texts that weren't published as a free contribution on some blog by a dev with lots of time on their hand.

      It's not forbidden to post paywalled links on HN, AFAIK.

      I also struggle to see an alternative when it comes to professional journalism.

      Maybe a kind soul will be able to share a gift link.

  • TormentNexusAI 1 hour ago
    The biggest win for AI dev efficiency is cutting down what gets loaded into context. Semantically matching tasks to the top tools helps a lot.