Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

Off topic: I am legit interested to know how paywall sites get to the front page of HN. I wouldn't have guessed that the WSJ has a team of people to upvote their content to the front page, but now I'm second guessing that assumption. Or, does HN have some hidden allegiance with certain news agencies that lets paywall content through? Obviously TechCrunch gets in free, since it's used for YCombinator startup advertising, but the WSJ surprises me.

There’s plenty of discusssion elsewhere on HN: you can use search to find references (I’d start out with author:dang paywall). Short short version: they’re (e.g., NYT, WSJ, WaPo) big publications with a history of quality journalism that a lot of people are aware of and exposed to. That contributes both to increased submissions and upvotes.