Signup-walled.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Plenty of sites with signup walls get posted to HN and do just fine.

Because you can bypass the wall with archive.is or other tools. This website is closed tight.

that doesn’t make any sense. NYT is paywalled and their links don’t get autokilled. (not your fault obviously, but whoever is calling the shots on this)

yea it reeks of blanket excuse