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Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper

https://paddedinputs.substack.com/p/meta-superintelligences-surprising
183•skadamat•5h ago•71 comments

Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/acsandmann/rift
54•atticus_•4h ago•22 comments

Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]

https://scamcouver.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/scam-capital.pdf
57•thomassmith65•5h ago•30 comments

China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains

https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-new-rare-earth-and-magnet-restrictions-threaten-us-defense-s...
95•stopbulying•3h ago•71 comments

Is Odin just a more boring C?

https://dayvster.com/blog/is-odin-just-a-more-boring-c/
41•birdculture•9h ago•30 comments

Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal

https://justismills.substack.com/p/heroin-addicts-often-seem-normal
51•surprisetalk•6h ago•32 comments

Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

55•ofalkaed•6h ago•133 comments

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-reco...
497•dmitrygr•10h ago•183 comments

Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere

https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-ims-broken-october-update-3606444/
102•josephcsible•5h ago•28 comments

LineageOS 23

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/
119•cdesai•4h ago•45 comments

My First Murder

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/skip-hollandsworth-new-book-she-kills/
39•speckx•5d ago•4 comments

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https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/06/datablocks-white-label-drives/
159•thomasjb•5d ago•96 comments

How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)

https://jherrm.github.io/knobs/
123•gregsadetsky•4d ago•78 comments

Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05096
20•jinqueeny•5h ago•1 comments

The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/twin-towers-construction-photographs/
206•kinderjaje•5d ago•100 comments

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

https://github.com/BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD
229•rguiscard•21h ago•92 comments

The <output> Tag

https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag
737•todsacerdoti•20h ago•166 comments

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial

https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial
47•cjbarber•10h ago•5 comments

Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature

https://mitchellh.com/writing/non-trivial-vibing
239•skevy•14h ago•113 comments

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/people-regret-buying-amazon-smart-displays-after-being-bo...
237•croes•11h ago•121 comments

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/
318•Ch00k•21h ago•169 comments

A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

https://psyonik.tech/posts/a-guide-for-wireguard-vpn-setup-with-pi-hole-adblock-and-unbound-dns/
43•pSYoniK•9h ago•6 comments

GNU Health

https://www.gnuhealth.org/about-us.html
368•smartmic•13h ago•103 comments

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https://neilmadden.blog/2025/09/12/rating-26-years-of-java-changes/
169•PaulHoule•10h ago•187 comments

The World's 2.75B Buildings

https://tech.marksblogg.com/building-footprints-gba.html
12•marklit•4d ago•4 comments

The story of X-Copy on the Amiga

https://spillhistorie.no/2025/10/10/the-story-of-x-copy-on-the-amiga/
20•onename•7h ago•1 comments

Beyond indexes: How open table formats optimize query performance

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/10/8/beyond-indexes-how-open-table-formats-optimize-query-p...
30•jandrewrogers•3d ago•1 comments

A quiet change to RSA

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/06/a-quiet-change-to-rsa/
111•ibobev•5d ago•35 comments

Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/62626
123•anigbrowl•7h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Solving the cluster 1 problem with vCluster standalone

https://www.vcluster.com/blog/vcluster-standalone-multi-tenancy-kubernetes
11•saiyampathak•3d ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/acsandmann/rift
54•atticus_•4h ago

Comments

tra3•3h ago
this is cool, I love multiple options on macOS.

What’s the difference between this and yabai or aerospace?

atticus_•2h ago
yabai uses native macos spaces and generally requires sip to be disabled to have a good experience(windows can't be moved between spaces without)

rift is essentially aerospace but implemented in a yabai style. yabai style meaning using low level, private apis and generally focusing more on performance. whereas aerospace prides itself on only using one private api.

usage wise, aerospace and rift both use a virtual workspace system where all of your (work)spaces are in one macos space so no red tape has to be cut in order to move windows from ws -> ws and so forth

mgrandl•2h ago
Does rift handle native MacOS tabs like the ones ghostty and finder use? I might give it a shot. I have been having a couple of issues with Aerospace lately.
mgrandl•2h ago
Also I am wondering if you could estimate how difficult it would be to implement something like Niri? I much prefer the scrolling style tiling, but none of the MacOS WMs seem to be going that route (other than PaperWM.spoon which is not for me).
malnourish•44m ago
I'm pretty new to Mac and didn't know Paper had a port, what isn't to your liking?
mgrandl•36m ago
Just not a fan of this just being a Hammerspoon thing instead of a proper WM.
atticus_•33m ago
to answer both comments: i've been working on a way to handle tabs but it's hard to find a solution that isn't half-baked due to the lack of info on tabs given by the os (there are no events or anything, just on a11y attribute that give info on tabs)

as for a scrolling layout, its possible, but does not fit that well with rifts layout, even thought you can get something similar using trackpad swipes to switch between workspaces

__mharrison__•1h ago
I'm using aerospace. If I'm fine with performance, does rift provide anything else?
0x6c6f6c•2h ago
Same boat, but vs amethyst. It's worked very well for me the last few years.
fiddlerwoaroof•2h ago
I used to be a big user of tiling window managers but, more recently, I’ve discovered that the workflow of something like Moom is nicer in more situations.
paularmstrong•1h ago
Moom is an absolute crucial piece of software that I've gladly paid for upgrades to over time to support it.

There's also BetterSnapTool, which I used to use, but I think switched to Moom for specific features at one point in time. It's even cheaper and still receiving updates to continue working.

__mharrison__•1h ago
What features do you like in Moom?
piskov•1h ago
It doesn’t force you with tiles (on 6k xdr tiles are a joke).

Its two-stage popup is a game changer. Ie you show it via caps-a, then press one letter to move window anywhere.

And it allows you to specify any arbitrary size and position and save that to the specific one letter.

It’s a shame I can’t find a single screenshot of this killer feature and I write this from a phone.

cloudking•1h ago
Pretty cool, but nothing beats Swish if you're using a Macbook trackpad https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/
chrisweekly•51m ago
"Highly opinionated" indeed ;)

One reason I prefer Divvy^1 is that my custom keyboard shortcuts are usable whether typing directly the on laptop w/ trackpad, or (more frequently) on external keyboard.

1. https://mizage.com/divvy/

fellowniusmonk•1h ago
I've moved from window managers to deterministic app switching with Rcmd mapped to capslock and dual cmd being tied to some window arrangement and screen swapping karabiner commands.

I've switched to what I consider a french cleat system where I have task specific app/window sets and only keep a single task open at a time.

Similar to how french cleat walls are for general storage but then you can arrange all tools for a project on a specific cleat for the duration of the project.

How many apps must a person use in reality that rcmd+letter isn't sufficient for deterministic switching?

Any web app that isn't just general browsing I have mapped to a safari app now, gmail, llms, etc. chrome's tab management is just a joke.

tolerance•49m ago
What do you use to manage window arrangements?
fellowniusmonk•25m ago
I mostly full-screen each app, deterministic switching means I only real need alt layouts if something forces a cross window dnd. But I just use capslock+cmd and jkl; plus a few other keys to handle any adhoc positioning I need. j is left quarter, jk left half, jkl left 3/4, kl middle half, l fullscreen, etc, hitting them again cycles to top half bottom half.

So with left hand caps+cmd and right hand home row I can basically do any of 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4 increment combos with one chord and hit them again for top half bottom half.

I don't really do single quarters ever except on far left or right so that's why l is mapped fullscreen.

it works very well, was a long time user of btt before I got tired of it randomly failing.

a karabiner script handles the key chords and dumps them to yabai

piskov•1h ago
With 5k/6k displays ordinary tiling is a joke: windows are too big. So apps like moon are far better option.

On Windows there is no such thing as Moom, so I use tiling manager like komorebi.

As a person switching between different OSs and devices, it’s a shame that rift seems to not use well-established key binding like alt+hjkl.

Also for 5k+ display (or ultrawide) this kind of window tiling is a must (which komorebi has)

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    |     |           +-----+
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~Welp, I tried, but HN seems to render this not like I paste it~
Ygg2•1h ago
If you indent your pasted stuff by four spaces, HN treats it as code. That might help.
hamasho•1h ago
I used to be a heavy user of i3. It's very flexible and configurable, and you can do much more than just moving windows. But after I switched to Mac, I couldn't find a tiling window manager that was both feature-rich and stable. After trying several options, I just use Rectangle[1]. It's not a window manager; it only provides shortcuts for window placements like simply moving windows to left/right/top/bottom or splitting the screen into 3/4/6 sections and place windows. It covers 80% of my needs and there are no pitfalls or unexpected behavior, so now I'm happily using it. Another reason is that I'm getting old and tired of using very flexible software with tons of custom configs.

[1] https://rectangleapp.com/

chrisweekly•1h ago
Similar experience and pov here -- but w/ Divvy^1 (not Rectangle).

1. https://mizage.com/divvy/