[bluejellybean]

You can also open the page in a "private window" on firefox. I haven't tried in chrome but I assume you would get the same result.

[SnydenBitchy]

You could also just pay, if you find yourself on nytimes often enough to hit the paywall. Crazy, I know.

[nfoz]

Though there would also be something tiresome about an article-aggregation site like HN that just links through to a bunch of paywalls. Sort of a different thing, then.