alt Hacker NewsWow, this is a new one. If you try to look at this with the archive.is link [1], the article is covered with a pink-lavender suppository that obscures the text. If you try to remove it from the HTML with DevTools, it *automatically reappears*. I guess this is the latest step in the Paywall Wars.
I have a free account without a subscription. If you look at the original, it uses pink tombstone-shaped objects. That's probably what you're seeing.