why block these sites?
Hacker News
Hacker News is a popular news aggregation site that is often unfriendly towards views that don't fall in line with heteronormative patriarchy. Its moderation standards are entirely opaque and beyond reproach.
Alternatives
lobste.rs — Featuring an entirely open source, transparent moderation policy, and small but active community, lobste.rs is my go-to Hacker News replacement.
Code Babes
Code Babes appears to be some sort of misguided learning site that combines explotative imagery of women with content.
There are no redeeming qualities to this site. If you want to learn to code, check out MDN or Khan Academy or Codecademy or dozens of other learning resources online.
Hot Tech Today
Hot Tech Today is a tech news site that thinks you need to objectify women while you catch up on news. Avoid.
Try Cooper Press for curated links based on technology interest, Wired and Engadget for general interest tech news. (Disclosure: the maintainer of this site is an AOL employee.)
how to block
the-list is easily added to your own hosts file by curling the-lists's text file.
By running this command in your terminal, the contents of list.txt will be appended to your /etc/hosts
file.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llkats/the-list/master/list.txt >> /etc/hosts
The flags are there to handle error cases more gracefully and safely handle redirects. See man curl for a more comprehensive explanation.