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Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before

https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/adobe_wrote_to_my_hosts_file_ive_never_had_an_app/
13•speckx•1h ago

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aisignaldev•1h ago
This is the kind of thing that erodes trust slowly. Most users will never notice, and that's exactly the point. Would be interesting to know if this is documented anywhere in Adobe's ToS or if it's purely undisclosed behavior.
curt15•4m ago
How is Adobe modifying a system file at all? Does Adobe run a background process with root privileges?

After 17 years, AO3 is exiting open beta

https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-is-exiting-open-beta/
1•rajayonin•1m ago•0 comments

Names of Easter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Easter
1•throw0101c•4m ago•0 comments

Ireland Tests Digital ID to Verify Age of Social Media Users

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/ireland-tests-digital-id-to-verify-age-of-soci...
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X·y=k powers decentralized exchanges – AMM math and interactive viz

https://krishbaidya.me/blog/how-a-single-equation-powers-crypto-exchanges
1•KrishBaidya•8m ago•0 comments

What Hath Tim Berners-Lee Wrought?

https://www.newcartographies.com/p/what-hath-tim-berners-lee-wrought
2•MindGods•9m ago•0 comments

AI Image Upscaler – Enhance Blurry Images Online

https://imgupscaleai.com/
1•feixiangfly•10m ago•0 comments

The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won

https://thewalrus.ca/the-war-against-misinformation-is-over-the-lies-won/
1•pseudolus•11m ago•0 comments

Slap: Fun Cat Lang with a Borrow Checker?

https://taylor.town/slap-000
1•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

Idiomatic Lisp and the Nbody Benchmark

https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/nbody/
2•signa11•15m ago•0 comments

Everyone Wants Ukraine's Drones

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-germany-drone-production/33723276.html
3•akeck•16m ago•0 comments

We chose Positron's Python type checker

https://positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2026-03-31-python-type-checkers/
1•ocamoss•17m ago•0 comments

Notes on going solo: celebrating 6 years of Studio Self

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/notes-on-going-solo-celebrating-6-years-of-studio-self/
1•surprisetalk•17m ago•0 comments

Lower Price for ChatGPT Business

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8792828-what-is-chatgpt-business
3•alxthm•17m ago•0 comments

Fashion Command-Line Tool

https://melomac.com/posts/introducing-fashion-command-line-tool/
1•melomac•17m ago•1 comments

PatchPal: Affordable tool-free pothole patches [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtVQ_GE7HKo
1•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

10 Questions We Always Ask Founders

https://www.the-founders-corner.com/p/10-questions-we-always-ask-founders
1•mgav•18m ago•0 comments

LLM Drift in Long Sessions: Claude 60% vs. 85% Integrity After 25 Turns

https://calmkeep.ai/codetestreport
1•calmkeepai•19m ago•0 comments

Why do we collect things?

https://cazadora.substack.com/p/why-do-we-collect-things
2•surprisetalk•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zumly – a library for building zooming user interfaces

https://github.com/zumerlab/zumly
1•tinchox6•20m ago•1 comments

TDF ejects its core developers

https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2026-04-02-tdf-ejects-core-devs.html
1•janvdberg•20m ago•0 comments

A Transparent UI Pattern

https://blog.exe.dev/a-simple-ui-pattern
1•tosh•20m ago•0 comments

Operation Save Orbán: Trump Deploys Vance to Hungary

https://www.politico.eu/article/operation-save-viktor-orban-us-donald-trump-deploys-jd-vance-hung...
2•amelius•20m ago•1 comments

Squarified Treemap Algorithm

https://book.gtoolkit.com/explaining-the-squarified-treemap-algorith-aoisxyi4qtrf1q2378evsjf67
1•downboots•21m ago•0 comments

Killing Slack was the only way to make AI accurate

https://promptql.io/blog/killing-slack-was-the-only-way-to-make-ai-accurate
1•tango12•24m ago•0 comments

I filed an IETF draft for multi-radio proximity mesh standard-gap real?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-patel-omp-proximity-mesh/
1•npukuk•24m ago•1 comments

Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen

https://benhoyt.com/writings/dependencies/
1•adunk•27m ago•0 comments

AI Cannot Replace Glue Work

https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/ai-cannot-replace-glue-work/
3•gpi•29m ago•0 comments

Void: Video Object and Interaction Deletion from Netflix Research

https://void-model.github.io/
1•meetpateltech•31m ago•0 comments

Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/economists-once-dismissed-the-ai-job-threat-but-not-a...
2•chrisaycock•32m ago•0 comments

What If Everyone Is Wrong About AI Adoption in the Workplace

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryananderson/2026/04/01/what-if-everyone-is-wrong-about-ai-adoption-...
1•gpi•33m ago•0 comments