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Posted by blkhp19 13 hours ago

I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii(bryankeller.github.io)
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postalcoder 10 hours ago|
Sorry if off topic but I was struck by the view from your window. Were you in Hanalei Bay?
blkhp19 10 hours ago|
I was - incredible views indeed!
postalcoder 10 hours ago||
Your post and pictures brightened up my day. Thanks!
serhack_ 12 hours ago||
awesome, good to see some real content from pre-AI moment
anthk 8 hours ago||
Not OSX, but I'd love what Aros m68k is doing with the Amiga but for Mac OS System7.

Yes, I know about Ardi Executor being libre and enhanced now, but that's not the point.

I'd love to spawn MiniVMAC with a free system ROM replacement and a free Mac OS 7 reimplementation.

duskwuff 7 hours ago|
Possibly of interest: https://mace.home.blog/

Frustratingly, though, they haven't released any source code yet.

dejongh 10 hours ago||
Great hack!
anArbitraryOne 7 hours ago||
I love it. I mean I hate MacOS, but great project
eats_indigo 12 hours ago||
honestly expected this port to be headed in the opposite direction
stavros 12 hours ago||
This is excellent, though if you had chosen another OS, you could have called the project Wiindows.

EDIT: Oh interesting, the final paragraph says NT has been ported, didn't know that. Sadly, no pun is mentioned in that project.

snazz 12 hours ago|
“entii-for-workcubes” is a pretty good pun!
stavros 11 hours ago||
I don't know man, "Wiindows" was right there and they chose "entii"? I weep for the missed opportunity more than anything.

Maybe it was a legal worry.

rdanieli 11 hours ago||
nice!
rvz 12 hours ago||
The post is a work of an actual hacker who knows what they're doing. Zero mention of "I used Claude" or "Used AI" to understand what is needed for accomplish this task.

This is exceptional work. Unlike the low-effort slop posts I see here on "Show HN".

blkhp19 12 hours ago||
I used plenty of non-agentic AI to help understand the XNU codebase, and also research various topics. It wasn't always correct, but it certainly helped at times! My philosophy for this project was to use it as a learning tool - since that was kind of the whole point of me attempting this :)
dirasieb 11 hours ago|||
looks like they did use AI, swing and a miss for the luddites once again!
bigyabai 12 hours ago||
Ah, the Procrustian definition of "real hacker", where using AI disqualifies you but using Github pages is considered only a minor infraction.

The build-in-public era of hacking has really turned this field into an influencer economy.

jasaldivara 12 hours ago||
Whats wrong about Github pages?
dewey 12 hours ago|||
A real hacker would obviously never use a Microsoft product, or worse, post on a VC funded web forum!
bigyabai 9 hours ago|||
Absolutely nothing. People protest Github to virtue signal their anti-Microsoft sentiment and fill a hole in their personality.

Similarly, "zero mention of AI" is just a surface-level observation that says nothing about how the project was completed and everything about your own insecurities defining the word hacker.

frakt0x90 12 hours ago|
If all the AI stories on this site were replaced with amazing stuff like this, the world would be a better place.
jjice 11 hours ago||
I probably have rose colored glasses, but this is what I associate with Hacker News when I first started coming to this site. Truly absurd projects for no reason other than the love of the game and detailed write ups.

I'm not an LLM post hater, but it definitely has been a bit draining lately. This is exactly what I love to see here.

mech422 7 hours ago||
yeah - I wish the 'Hacker' part of 'HackerNews' got more attention. Last few years it often feels more like "VC-Buzzword-of-the-day-News" - AI is just the most recent cycle.
kstrauser 12 hours ago|||
Get to submitting! Be the change you want to see.
twoodfin 10 hours ago||
I’m SOO happy but also wistfully sad when I open a post like this that I am desperately excited to read and it’s not muddled-thinking- and LinkedInese-riddled slop.
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