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AI · May 7, 2026

wfb-link, a userspace WiFiBroadcast radio stack for macOS

Hi HN, I’ve been working on a Rust userspace radio stack for running WFB-style links from macOS using RTL8812AU USB adapters. Full disclosure: I'm a software engineer, but not really a hardware or embedded systems engineer, so Codex GPT 5.5 has done the lion-share of the work here along with a bit of help from Claude Opus 4.7 here and there. It's taken about 1.5 to 2 weeks to get from zero to this first release. macOS doesn't expose the monitor-mode / packet-injection path that WFB systems normally rely on. I really didn't like the idea of needing a separate linux box just to talk WFB…

wfb-link, a userspace WiFiBroadcast radio stack for macOS launched on May 7, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,008 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

WifiBroadcast support for macos and others in userspace - arc-edge/wfb-link

wfb-link is a cross-platform WFB link stack and product-facing Rust facade. Its current direct-radio implementation is a native macOS userspace backend for WFB-NG traffic on RTL8812AU USB adapters, tested with the ALFA AWUS036ACH. The project lets a Mac treat the adapter as a USB radio peripheral: initialize the chip, submit raw 802.11 WFB frames through bulk OUT, receive frames through bulk IN, and bridge those frames to WFB-NG's existing UDP distributor and aggregator protocols. It also contains a small Rust facade crate so a product binary can use one link lifecycle API across macOS, Linux, and future Android support while each platform uses the right radio path. git remote set-url…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, I’ve been working on a Rust userspace radio stack for running WFB-style links from macOS using RTL8812AU USB adapters. Full disclosure: I'm a software engineer, but not really a hardware or embedded systems engineer, so Codex GPT 5.5 has done the lion-share of the work here along with a bit of help from Claude…

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