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Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor

https://github.com/uncognic/steppewm
5•uncognic•1h ago

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uncognic•52m ago
Every Wayland compositor I could find is a tiling one: sway, river, Hyprland, dwl, niri. If you want windows that float and overlap with titlebars and a taskbar, the way IceWM does it, there's almost nothing. That is Steppewm
ChocolateGod•28m ago
labwc?

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
527•speckx•2h ago•189 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
622•darccio•6h ago•375 comments

Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
49•djfergus•39m ago•30 comments

AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows

https://canews24.online/?p=71
68•Edymilson•1h ago•38 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
344•dares2573•6h ago•114 comments

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
149•gavide•3h ago•24 comments

Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2852504
33•jader201•1h ago•15 comments

c100

https://caligra.com/c100/
76•tosh•1h ago•49 comments

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

https://www.winonapost.com/news/wpd-wont-replace-stolen-flock-cameras-citing-public-trust/article...
38•erikschoster•2h ago•8 comments

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
85•speckx•3h ago•37 comments

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
423•throw7•3h ago•229 comments

What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

https://blog.8ball.space/what-we-lost-when-search/
56•speckx•2h ago•32 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
38•colinprince•1h ago•14 comments

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
58•pppone•3h ago•16 comments

I came to write THAT paper with Leslie Lamport

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/08/21/Lamport.html
13•baruchel•1h ago•2 comments

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

https://ixuvo.com/blog/tigerbeetle-core-system-architecture-performance-engineering
112•ksec•4h ago•36 comments

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/08/21/obfuscation_part_iii_local_mixing.html
9•fbrusch•1h ago•0 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
217•spankibalt•9h ago•123 comments

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

https://catalystneuro.com/blog/cost-of-intelligence-drops-100x/
93•bkd9•3h ago•81 comments

I Just Want to Search

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/just-want-to-search
6•ssiddharth•42m ago•0 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/
180•marcomezzavilla•6h ago•50 comments

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

https://github.com/yaroslav/kino
53•ksec•5h ago•10 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
35•karma_daemon•3h ago•4 comments

How We Made a Text-to-Speech Model Respond in Sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
13•toebee•51m ago•1 comments

The B-right/V R2 Operating System

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/b-right-vr2intro.html
10•Bluestein•1h ago•2 comments

Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
18•cainxinth•2h ago•0 comments

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
101•surprisetalk•4d ago•31 comments

Making stinkarm stink less, or more?

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/making-stinkarm-stink-less/
6•xnacly•4d ago•1 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html
29•eatonphil•4h ago•1 comments

Nothing Doing

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/10/nothing-doing-12/
22•surprisetalk•4h ago•10 comments