Honestly, even if it isn't, I appreciate the archive link.
I've often found HN threads that are many years old while researching things, and the original article is long gone. An archive link at least _usually_ works.
I didn't hit a paywall when I first opened the article, but when I clicked a link from this article to the one about SBF and the Super Bowl, I got a paywall on that one. And then when I hit the back button to go back to the balloon article, it now had a paywall too. So I posted the archive link in case anyone else runs into this.
