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• LetsGetTechnicl
  I'm getting exhausted from all these AI vibe coded projects. Like this is cool, sure, but it's less cool than if someone had figured out how to do it themselves instead of having Claude do it. It's like chasing the dragon but for coding projects.
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  aghuang
  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/enSource Code: https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
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  runjake
  Important to note that a large percentage of the current versions of A and B-tier iOS apps won't run on an iOS this old.But this is still a big step for research purposes.
• dmcrespo
  It seems a bit crazy to me, plus now it opens the door to many iPhone copies... we'll have to be very careful
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  drnick1
  It's interesting that this can be done, but why would anyone want to run iOS on Android devices? A more desirable outcome would be running a free Android distro like Graphene on Apple hardware. Or indeed just liberating phones controlled by Google by hacking the bootloader and replacing the OS.
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  therepanic
  I suppose Anthropic has relaxed its safety checks to such an extent that Claude now agrees to port iOS to Android phones?
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  sanid
  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.
• pmkary
  Someone finally did this, wow! 2026 just keeps getting more crazy.
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  torben-friis
  I wonder, why 16.5? (That would be 2023's versión).Not to detract from how awesome this is, just curious.
• nullpoint420
  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 resultsWhat a time to be alive!
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  1f60c
  There is one, uh, minor drawback: > Does not work (yet) > > Charging under our kernel (the phone only discharges)
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  bigwheels
  Why do these demonstrations all stop at iOS 16? What changed with iOS 17?
• dj_io
  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.
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  tamimio
  Should be called phockintosh! I don’t see a use case for it but cool concept
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  jgbuddy
  Next; IOS will be decompiled and open source
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  hollowonepl
  Wow, do I smell the opportunity to have IOS analogy to Graphene OS built on top of such concept?
• saagarjha
  Hmm. Maybe small iPhone might be easier to revive than we thought!
• Velocifyer
  Can you make a GSI to run on any Android Phone?
• ost-ing
  Wow
• jrmg
  It has an, uh, interesting funding model: “$HACKIOS ON BNB CHAIN The project has its own community token, live on flap.sh. Each trade carries a 1% fee that supports the team and funds development.”
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  croes
  I wonder how many if these AI projects have malware?
• anon
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  jgbuddy
  amazing, but who is OO SEX GANG
• zarmin
  Amazing. On par with cutting off my leg before playing soccer.
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  embedding-shape
  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 :)
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  westurner
  Does this make it possible to quality control iOS apps without MacOS runners with xcodebuild in CI like GitHub Actions?
• diimdeep
  Hardware is so powerful, that soon we will be able to run anything using anything, if you have access to whatever you need to run, and access is lacking only if it is streaming content from cloud or hardware encrypted.
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  sheepscreek
  Madness. I love it.
• akung8x8
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