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The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
2•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•6m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
1•righthand•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•10m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•11m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•16m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•25m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•26m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•27m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
4•okaywriting•34m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•37m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•38m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•39m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•40m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•40m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•44m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•44m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•45m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•46m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•54m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•54m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
2•surprisetalk•56m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•56m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
2•surprisetalk•56m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A USB controller makes one flash drive 4 independent disks (no drivers)

https://xusb.net/project-1/logical-split-disk-embodiment/
2•xusbnet•4mo ago

Comments

xusbnet•4mo ago
Hi,I’m the author. Thesis: storage should obey the owner, not the host. Over the last decade we’ve let the host OS become the sovereign of removable media; most “policies” live in user space and can be bypassed. I wanted something minimal that lets the device owner set non-negotiable boundaries in hardware.

So I built a tiny USB “hardware proxy” between host and flash. It’s standard Mass Storage Class (no drivers). At enumeration it presents multiple logical disks, and then a sector mapper constrains every SCSI READ/WRITE by LBA. One stick shows up as four independent disks; the host can format each as it likes.

It’s plain Mass-Storage-Class and driver-free across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, and Android. Because it operates beneath the filesystem, you can format each logical disk as you like (FAT32, APFS, EXT4, etc.). Extras I show in the write-up: a hardware read-only switch (reported via MODE SENSE), transparent on-the-fly encryption, DIP-switch-revealed hidden volumes, LEDs that expose SCSI READ/WRITE activity, and a simple guard that rejects non-MSC identities (so it won’t act as a HID keyboard — the classic BadUSB trick). The current board runs on a 120 MHz MCU at USB 2.0 High-Speed.

Full technical explanation and a demo are in the post. Happy to answer questions here.

xusbnet•4mo ago
Author here with a quick clarification + demo. Short video demo (no sign-up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8jIb7Wg9lM Current prototype exposes one logical disk at a time (selectable via a DIP switch). The other regions are sealed and not visible to the host.
xusbnet•4mo ago
Logical Split Disk (LSDisk) - Mini Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miWnRlo75NE