This kind of bothers me, but maybe somebody had a better perspective. The above listed news agencies are both (1) frequently cited on HN, annd (2) are all top Google results whenever you look up a news story. You always get two sentences in before paywall pops up. Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, worth $126B. Bloomberg is worth $76B. Reuters is held by Thomson-Reuters, which is chaired by David Thomson, worth $46B. NYT is owned by a trust fund for the fifth generation of AG Sulzberger, which is honestly the least conflict of interest of the lot. Elon now owns the window a lot of people discover these articles with. Why give them all more money?
Furthermore, why is the default HN behavior to link the article, and not the archive.ph version?