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New comment by atticus_ in "Vouch"

atticus_ — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:18:17 +0000

I think its crazy that a single person thinks so much of themselves to create this under their name

New comment by atticus_ in "enclose.horse"

atticus_ — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:07:29 +0000

https://enclose.horse Day 8 PERFECT! 100%

New comment by atticus_ in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

atticus_ — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:32:47 +0000

This is not true. The private api's we use are not hacks to work around macos spaces and are actually the basis of how appkit and the os in general works. They are essentially guaranteed to be stable and also not to be removed because they have been in use for many many years with no change.

The private api's that have been broken (as experienced by yabai) are strictly related to things that rift does not interact with like moving windows between macos spaces(since we use a virtual workspace system).

New comment by atticus_ in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

atticus_ — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:15:15 +0000

in rift each screen/space has its own virtual workspace manager so they are fully isolated from eachother!

New comment by atticus_ in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

atticus_ — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:14:38 +0000

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

New comment by atticus_ in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

atticus_ — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:56:30 +0000

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

Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

atticus_ — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/acsandmann/rift

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553995

Points: 212

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