The original is particularly bad for me. Goes strait to a pay form and hijacks my back button. I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it and had to close the site and reopen HN. I wish these sites were banned here and I need to finally get an extension or something to ban myself from clicking them.
The "Bypass Paywalls" extension works for me. It's becoming necessary like Ublock Origin and a few others to make the web usable.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/
(also for Firefox, which is the one I'm using)