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tylertms/Stela
A translation-based Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs
Stela is a UEFI-level compatibility layer that lets regular x86-64 PCs boot macOS by impersonating Apple Silicon. It includes an arm64-to-x86-64 AOT/JIT translator covering 3,000+ AArch64 instructions, a Metal driver for NVIDIA GPUs, and hardware emulation presenting itself as an M2 Mac mini. It's early-stage, slow, and may not boot reliably yet.
Why now: It's trending on Hacker News ('A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs') and gaining stars fast, likely from the novelty of running macOS on non-Apple hardware with GPU acceleration.
Who it is for: Enthusiast developers and hobbyists with supported NVIDIA GPUs who want to experiment with running macOS on generic PCs.
Stars over our 176 snapshots: 487 to 1.8K, since 1 d ago.
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