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iOS-Runtime-Headers

iOS Objective-C headers as derived from runtime introspection

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iOS Objective-C headers as derived from runtime introspection

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-02-08 13:10:41 UTC to 2024-06-13 01:04:05 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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judge2020·Oct 7, 2023
Sure, but private methods are another vector - tracking and bypassing the IDFA and potentially acting as official Apple Apps to use/abuse things like Carrier/SIM info[0], updating the wallpaper for the user[1], accessing call history[2], etc. 0: https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/blob/fbb634c78269... 1: https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/issues/32 2: https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/tree/fbb634c78269...
In Android devices with backdoored firmware found in US schools
detrites·Mar 25, 2023
My question too. This semi-answer on the page seems to contradict itself (source: https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/p... ): "> Can I program the ANE directly? Unfortunately not. You can only use the Neural Engine through Core ML at the moment. There currently is no public framework for programming the ANE. There are several private, undocumented frameworks but obviously we cannot use them as Apple rejects apps that use private frameworks. (Perhaps in the future Apple will provide a public version of AppleNeuralEngine.framework.)" The last part links to this bunch of headers: https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/tree/master/Priva... So might it be more accurate to say you can program it directly, but won't end up with something that can be distributed on the app store?
In What we know about the Apple Neural Engine
conradev·May 4, 2016
I went through Apple's DMCA requests sent to Github and the only one that is remotely similar is this: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-11-04-Apple.... But even then they weren't claiming it was reverse engineered material, but instead material ripped directly from Apple's copyrighted and confidential docs. I think both Apple and Github understand the boundaries of the DMCA pretty well. According to Github they haven't attempted to take down any of the following: https://github.com/nygard/class-dump https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers https://github.com/brutella/hc https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://github.com/lisimia/piMessage https://github.com/stefanesser/dumpdecrypted https://github.com/comex/imaon2 … etc
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