Be Alexandra Elbakyan

DanielleMolloy 107 points 12 comments April 29, 2026
twitter.com · View on Hacker News

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/20490573440138815...

Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

metadat

The Elsevier reply is infuriating. The system is broken. https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049485871699931...

mjd

She's a hero.

ipsum2

is Sci-Hub still updated for new papers?

ChrisArchitect

Source: https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/20490573440138815... Instead of links from randoms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

onetimeusename

So I imagine, with some irony, that she can avoid US courts because Russia doesn't have an extradition agreement. To some extent, it seems like content sharing apps are often Russia based. So evading shutdown in Western nations requires a hostile regime. So free access to Western, public-funded, scientific research relies on Russian networks and jurisdiction often.

renewiltord

These massive green text attempts started becoming common recently and honestly they’re excruciatingly boring. Misses the entire value of the medium. Very “hello, fellow kids”.

Semantic search powered by Rivestack pgvector
8,303 stories · 78,303 chunks indexed