Unlike what most people probably think, not all boards on 4chan are NSFW and the home page is certainly SFW.

4chan is not just /b/.

It's way too common to find porn on the blue boards and by extension the front page.

Here you go:

td.title a[href*="4chan.org"] { color: rgb(255, 50, 50) !important; }

Customize it to only apply to news.ycombinator.com for your choice of browser and CSS-manipulation add-on :)

The headline mentions 4chan.

I linked a SFW board.

(you can tell 4chan's SFW boards from NSFW by the background; the blue ones are - or, at least, should be - SFW, the yellow ones are NSFW)

The second post on /co/ when I loaded it was a NSFW image of a nude woman making a sandwich.

It wasn't.

/co/ is fine for work.

So, you missed the domain, and were subject to the horrors of people discussing comics? Why exactly do we need to protect you from this terrible fate?

Some employers flag at domain level and actively monitor internet use.

Developer news / discussion sites like HN are fine, but something like 4chan.org or somethingaweful.com aren't.

So you are complaining about (the linking to) a site protesting against censorship (+etc) because this could interfere with the censorship mechanisms implemented by some employers?

more likely it interferes with his job.

So how does that support your initial reaction at all? Comics aren't NSFW just because you work in a shithole. Tons of things get posted here that aren't related to software development, you think they should all be tagged as NSFW?