# oosexgang/hackios-xnu-userland

> The user-space half of HackiOS: builds APFS root and system images with init, launchd jobs and parts of iOS 16.5 to run the unmodified iOS user space on Android hardware and in QEMU.

- Magnitude: 5.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 175 total · +55 stars measured 2026-10-22, 11:26–15:07 UTC, ≈ 75 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C · Created: 2026-10-22 · Last push: 2026-10-22
- GitHub: https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-userland · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-userland

## Useful for

- Build root.apfs and system.apfs from an iOS 16.5 IPSW for booting in QEMU
- Run a test scenario via RC_JOBS=rc.jobs.ssh using init instead of a shell
- Analyze Metal shaders (AIR) with the tools in tools/air

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 11:26–15:07: 120 → 175 stars (+55). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +75 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 175 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 126 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @haxi0 (552 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 57
- Issues and pull requests: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 75 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 18

## Stars per day, last 1 day (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-22 … 2026-10-22: 55

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 15:23 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.