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13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2022-12-01 · latest 2025-06-13

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  1. Here's the link to the Darwin, the underlying Unix layer of macOS, which is open source [1]. Go for it! [1]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...
    comment by alwillis · 2025-06-13 · in macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
  2. > Half of the initial mac os x kernel was ripped off freebsd, giving pretty much nothing back. That is open source. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)…
    comment by voidspark · 2025-04-25 · in Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
  3. Though the blog post was written last year regarding macOS Ventura, the same hack is still present in the Sequoia code base[1,2]: > M I C R O S O F T H A C K ! > It turns out that the Mac Office (2008) rolled their own solution to roots.…
    comment by miles · 2024-11-05 · in Lingering Mac Office 2008 workaround (2023)
  4. I can't know what "-dirty" implies, but https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/cff5336 is a pretty random commit from 2022 :-( https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... hasn't been updated with a "jq" directory yet
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-09-17 · in macOS Sequoia is available today
  5. > Memory pressure is an internal macOS system metric Interesting. That'll probably mean it's in the source code Apple publishes for macOS: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... Doing a search for the phrase…
    comment by justinclift · 2024-08-12 · in MacBook Air, M2 Chip, 8GB RAM: Nothing is open, but half the memory is gone
  6. Partially: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-iOS I'm not sure how it all fits together but people have even made an open source distribution of the base…
    comment by tensor · 2024-06-10 · in Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
  7. I thought Apple open sourced parts of it? "Darwin"? https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...
    comment by lispm · 2024-06-10 · in An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
  8. I get the utility of a laptop that runs 20 hours on battery and slips in the side pocket of my carry-on or shoulder bag. (The Mac can also split between RAM and GPU.) Mixtral 8x22 and Llama 3 70b stream at roughly the same speed as last…
    comment by Terretta · 2024-05-30 · in Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
  9. Every Christmas break I always hope I'll have the emotional energy to dig back into https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin#readme and see if I can get it to boot, even on VirtualBox, let alone some hackintosh friendly hardware like OP…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-02-08 · in Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
  10. Yes, this is pretty interesting: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... … with links to 174 submodules. But for the uninitiated, this might appear as nothing.
    comment by ppetty · 2023-08-16 · in Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5
  11. They're submodules. The actual code is there: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...
    comment by TillE · 2023-08-16 · in Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5
  12. Darwin is open source. Here's the repo for their kernel: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/main . The userspace stuff can be found here: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... . Some stuff that's…
    comment by mort96 · 2022-12-01 · in Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo