News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your... by rootusrootus on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:27PM (#35795629)
Step 1: Point news.ycombinator.com to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts
Re:The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your... by thorncorona on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:10PM (#35796452)
Step 2: Use a proxy
Re:The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your... by asdfman123 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:20PM (#35796958)
That doesn’t work. People with effective solutions aren’t here to argue for them.
Re:The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your... by danutu on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:01AM (#35799028)
Hi, sorry i dont t understand what are you saying
Re:The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your... by spidersenses on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:13AM (#35799111)
It means that calls to the hackernews url would be rerouted to localhost (thereby effectively blocking the website).

However, it only takes about 5 seconds time to rename the hosts file, subverting the whole idea.