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Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
69•aghuang•1h ago

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sheepscreek•58m ago
Madness. I love it.
Grombobulous•52m ago
My “AI is ending the world” feelings are definitely going in another direction in the past few weeks with the reverse engineering, jailbreaking, and porting scene.

Microsoft, Google, Oracle, etc, just invested all their money into a technology that will make their software worthless. As Ronald McDonald once said, I’m lovin’ it.

add-sub-mul-div•43m ago
Was your prior feeling about AI based on the sum total of its negative externalities for society, or its not having produced enough gimmick software projects?
anthk•13m ago
If you think about it, home users will get free MIT licensed clones for Adobe/Autodesk/Solidworks and Microsoft. The companies will just get trained people in their homes for almost free and they will happily pay for support for Adobe/MS et all.

- Optimized and ultra-hardened Office for macros and features? Pay.

- CUDA optimized PS -with inline assembly maybe even from Rust- and more, 24/7 support with a huge Adobe asset pack to start with? Pay.

jgbuddy•57m ago
amazing, but who is OO SEX GANG
freedomben•50m ago
my guess is a lot of Java people who refuse to get on the functional train
hollowonepl•55m ago
Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?
gruez•45m ago
No, because iPhones still have locked bootloader, and on an Android phone this Frankenstein of an OS is likely to have worse security than just grapheneos.
nullpoint420•54m ago
I'm doing the same thing with my Oneplus 6T, I have Claude piloting my phone over adb booting new candidate kernels and checking the results

What a time to be alive!

torben-friis•54m ago
I wonder, why 16.5? (That would be 2023's versión).

Not to detract from how awesome this is, just curious.

MBCook•15m ago
They crank up security every release. Perhaps ones after that were somehow drastically harder?
westurner•47m ago
Does this make it possible to quality control iOS apps without MacOS runners with xcodebuild in CI like GitHub Actions?
sanid•47m ago
This is going to be fun. There are already replica phones for the flagship phones that are running a shitty android version that has been customized to look like iOS. People need to tripple check now when buying older used iPhone models.
gruez•44m ago
>Does not work (yet):

>App Store content and Apple ID sign-in (no Secure Enclave; FairPlay daemon exits)

That seems like a huge roadblock, even if were able to resolve all the driver/OS issues.

mshish•10m ago
I imagine official support for 3rd party app stores might open up some options for easily installing apps. However, that might require the store adding support for this type of iOS install or a newer version of iOS with 3rd party app store support.
gruez•6m ago
>I imagine official support for 3rd party app stores might open up some options for easily installing apps

Given you own the OS, that's not an issue. You can make it pre-jailbroken if you want. The bigger issue is that no app store = no "normie" apps like uber or google maps. I suspect most of the stock apps won't work either because they enforce device attestation on the backend endpoints, so it'll be miserable to use. You'd be better off using an android skinned as ios (possibly vibedcoded) than using this mess.

embedding-shape•44m ago
What, no, why?! Joking but kind of also not, Apple is terrible at software, amazing at hardware, what the people (me) want is the opposite, Android running on Apple hardware :)
TheSkyHasEyes•33m ago
Not with a locked bootloader, not yet anyway.
simlevesque•26m ago
Blue bubbles.
aghuang•41m ago
I found the website to be quite nauseating to look at, so I decided to use the GitHub link instead.

But it's quite impressive that it works on QEMU, POCO X5 Pro 5G and some Xiaomi devices too.

Website is here: https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en

Source Code: https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

semolino•30m ago
Are those tubal ligation scars on the mascot?
simlevesque•27m ago
Thank you.
dpacmittal•10m ago
I'm surprised Camera works. Even postmarketOS has difficulty with camera on most devices.
pmkary•30m ago
Someone finally did this, wow! 2026 just keeps getting more crazy.
jgbuddy•27m ago
Next; IOS will be decompiled and open source
xp84•8m ago
I hope that continued advancements in AI make it impossible for outfits like Apple to maintain closed systems that lock the device owner out of having any control over their own hardware. We're obviously not there yet -- I'm sure 1000 things won't work on a device with this running, but it's going to be a game of cat and mouse, and mouse is moving a lot faster than cat can now.
saagarjha•26m ago
Hmm. Maybe small iPhone might be easier to revive than we thought!
dj_io•26m ago
Great work. This is neat kind of like age old there used to be hackintosh for macs. Now for ios. With this do you have access to app store. I think there is a unique identifier that android will lack for it to work.
bigwheels•13m ago
Why do these demonstrations all stop at iOS 16? What changed with iOS 17?
diimdeep•6m ago
[delayed]

Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
304•farrokhi•2h ago•96 comments

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
537•bo0tzz•3h ago•410 comments

Arc Is Sunsetting

https://arc.net/
47•suhdonghwi•41m ago•33 comments

Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
74•aghuang•1h ago•31 comments

What's Getting Pwned

https://pwn.watch/
165•mrkd•3h ago•104 comments

What Is Gridifcation

https://musicalform.substack.com/p/what-is-gridifcation
248•gumby•3d ago•112 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
25•dewey•54m ago•3 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/
493•ledoge•9h ago•179 comments

Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/dungeon-generation-in-the-gnomish-mines-of-nethack/
27•ibobev•3d ago•2 comments

Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

https://www.techspot.com/news/114100-google-cleared-300-hectares-finnish-forest-data-center.html
118•wetwater•1h ago•69 comments

Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals

https://uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev/
21•storagebits•1d ago•0 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/
152•molind•7h ago•33 comments

The public notebook of a Claude agent with a continuous life

https://intenex.github.io/personhood/
4•hydrolox•11m ago•0 comments

The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

https://lastmuseum.com/
51•surprisetalk•4h ago•18 comments

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-take-on-humans
4•rakannimer•1h ago•1 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
429•alphax314•14h ago•134 comments

Crystal 1.22

https://crystal-lang.org/2026/10/12/1.22.0-released/
126•ksec•3h ago•58 comments

MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/gambling-ads-restrictions-canada-9.7388888
74•Teever•2h ago•19 comments

Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]

https://yle.fi/t/18-332106/fi
46•NaOH•3d ago•6 comments

VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver

https://github.com/rhargreaves/vmmouse-nt3
28•kiyouta•3d ago•5 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
285•craigcitro•14h ago•241 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
84•wffurr•2d ago•34 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
552•passenger•19h ago•322 comments

The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-unknown-painter-behind-manhattans-gilded-age-interiors/
42•hoffmannesque•1d ago•4 comments

Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-threat-intelligence-identifies-php2shell-exploitatio...
199•cubefox•5h ago•61 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
513•kuberwastaken•21h ago•474 comments

Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities
207•mrkn1•5h ago•64 comments

Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight

https://eigenmoon.vercel.app/
48•jessicarumbelow•2d ago•13 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
436•riffraff•2d ago•246 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
580•abhisek•1d ago•187 comments