[haversine]

Is it a fluke that when I clicked the NYT link from HN, I hit the paywall, but when I clicked it from NewsDiffs (http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.nytimes.com/2014/08...), the paywall disappeared?

Or has the paywall simply been deactivated?

[thunderbong]

I've found that disabling javascript let's you read the article without the paywall

[anirudhan]

or you can simply keep pressing 'esc' a few times once the initial page is loaded.