Hi team @ Y-Combinator<p>Can you block any submission whose url requires payment in order to read the news ?<p>For e.g. one of the top links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15529944 point to a WSJ article that requires payment to read the article.<p>Instead, the user can submit a related news from another news source that is free.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> asks you to e-mail the mods if you want to reach them.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html</a> contains the rules for paywalled articles: they are already not allowed if there is no known workaround.
Install adblock. Right click on overlay > adblock > block this ad until it goes away. (you'll notice the scrollbar has disappeared (B<i></i><i></i><i></i>). Run this in inspect scripts - element.style {overflow: scroll;height: 100%;}.
Alternatively: buy all the subscriptions