To be completely fair with you, I didn't know this was out there. Then again, I think my solution is more elegant, especially if all the todo's are finished.
I mean, if you don't trust the sources, you can use your own. Or if you don't trust the software, don't use it. It's up to the end user to decide what is in their best interest. I believe the included lists are trustworthy and I use them myself.
my first question too. Steve Black's updateHostesFile.py is extensible and can be automated and is well trusted and gets tested by a large community. I don't want to sound critical but would like to understand the value add in comparison. Both are in python as well so I don't get it
People posts simple projects, learning projects, projects that are inadvertently a dupe of some other project, projects that are deliberately patterned after existing projects, etc, etc, etc all the time.
sure I did but I didn't bother with a "Show HN", also this is well beyond the scope of a Hello World. It just made me wonder if OP hasn't studied what was already out there and if he did why no explanation or credit or mention of Steven's work ...
even if he disagreed with Steven solution and chose to reimplement, it would have been interesting to understand what the motivation was. I'm not saying he shouldn't, but just that it would be nice to know what motivated his design and why he thinks it's better to redo ...