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Welp, at least my copy was on point.

Saw there was some interest around this piece on HN last week so I went ahead and unlocked it.

This seems like a really tough ask of any editors. Much less, editors of one of the most highly scrutinized companies out there.

Curious to hear if anyone else has any outlandish VC experiences like the ones shared in our latest story.

No problem!

Thank you for flagging. This has been fixed. The page affected was a static file hosted outside our application only to be served when the app was inaccessible or offline. No user data was compromised at any point.

Honestly, it was more of a symptom of seeing our content posted on here organically and then the accompanying complaints about the paywall from the community.

There's obviously upside to having more eyeballs on our content.

Hi everyone, Jay from The Information here. We have unlocked this article specifically for the HN community. Enjoy!

Love to hear it.

Here you go! https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-incredible-rise-...

Hi everyone! Jay from The Information here. We are big fans of HN and have specifically unlocked this article for the HN community. Use this link to view the article in full.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/hit-by-big-loss-bird...

Thanks for flagging. Small bug that we fixed. Try again. My apologies.

Good call. Just updated.

Updated: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/hit-by-big-loss-bird...

Correction: Hey everybody! Jay from The Information here. We are testing out unlocking articles for HN readers as we are big fans. Here's this article unlocked! https://www.theinformation.com/articles/hit-by-big-loss-bird...

Hi, this is Jay from The Information. We're big fans of HN and we're trying out an experiment to unlock our paywalled articles specifically for HN users to read. Hope you enjoy!