# tylertms/Stela

> A UEFI boot layer that lets x86-64 PCs run Apple Silicon software: it translates arm64e code to x86-64, provides a Metal driver for NVIDIA GPUs and models Mac mini (M2) hardware to boot macOS 27. Still early v0.1.0, slow and unstable.

- Magnitude: 7.2 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 2,023 total · +156 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–10:32 UTC, ≈ 374 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: Rust · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-12 · Last push: 2026-11-14
- GitHub: https://github.com/tylertms/Stela · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/tylertms/Stela

## Useful for

- Boot macOS on an x86-64 PC with an NVIDIA GPU from a USB stick
- Test arm64e binaries on x86-64 via the AOT/JIT translator
- Run Metal shaders on NVIDIA GPUs through the AIR-to-NIR compiler

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–10:32: 1867 → 2023 stars (+156). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +374 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 4.9× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- The repository is 33 days old and already has 2,023 stars.
- Hacker News: “A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs” — 149 points, 2 days ago.
- About 30 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## 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: 113
- Issues and pull requests: 79
- Watchers: 33
- Average over the last week: 337 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 12
- Latest release: v0.4.1 (2026-11-14)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-16 … 2026-11-14: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 44, 852, 662, 428, 156

## Magnitude by day, last 3 days

11-12 8.6, 11-13 8.2, 11-14 7.3

## Hacker News

- A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs — 149 points, 57 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50460154

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

1. **UniXNU/UniXNU** — 2.5 · Steady · Hardware, IoT & robotics · Python · +19 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:05–10:35 UTC, ≈ 47 by evening
   An independent project to run iOS and macOS on non-Apple ARM64 hardware via UEFI: build driver, UEFI boot manager, DarwinBoot, drivers and XNU 4 KiB page patches.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/UniXNU/UniXNU.md

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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 2026-11-14 10:41 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.