Ask HN: How do you deal with papers behind paywalls?

I usually give up, being an idiot isn't so bad once you get used to it.

Give up. What is needed is a single monthly fee that costs about the same as a single newspaper delivery subscription that allows readers through paywalls for all the local papers, maybe another for NYT, WSJ type papers. But it’s unreasonable for the newspaper industry to expect readers to buy subscriptions to a 100 different papers we never heard of so we can read one mediocre article from the Dirtwater Republicrat.

you might be able to get access through a local library. A friendly e-mail to the authors can help. And there's always sci-hub, which even academics with "proper" access use because it's so easy.