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Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

Hacker News Best 20 May 2026 Yesterday
Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
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Ever since Apple introduced their video wallpapers I wanted to be able to put custom videos there. I decided to reverse engineer and see what I can do. I built Phosphene to sell it, but the existing competitors were polished enough that the time it would have taken to catch up wasn't going to pay off. So I'm open-sourcing it. WallpaperExtensionKit.framework is what powers macOS wallpapers. It cont
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