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Show HN: TorchCurves – Differentiable parametric curves for PyTorch

https://github.com/alexshtf/torchcurves
1•alexshtf•1m ago•0 comments

A Minimalist Transformation of a Cartagena Neighborhood Home

https://design-milk.com/a-minimalist-transformation-of-a-cartagena-neighborhood-home/
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work, Part I

https://mark-riedl.medium.com/the-intuition-behind-how-large-language-models-work-166cf2fb278a
1•sipofwater•1m ago•1 comments

What's New about Involution?

https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/08/whats-new-about-involution?lang=en
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

Dynamic Pricing Driving Customers Away in Las Vegas

https://traveltomorrow.com/welcome-to-las-vegas-where-dynamic-pricing-and-discount-sales-are-driv...
1•bdev12345•5m ago•0 comments

Billions of Triangles in Minutes

https://zeux.io/2025/09/30/billions-of-triangles-in-minutes/
1•ibobev•8m ago•0 comments

Amazon Unveils New Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/amazon-unveils-new-kindle-scribe-and-kindle-scribe-colorsoft/
1•ksec•9m ago•0 comments

What the Meteorologist: Announcing Wxpull

https://entropicthoughts.com/ecmwf-open-data-howto
1•ibobev•9m ago•0 comments

Zeroday.cloud – the first cloud open-source hacking competition

https://www.zeroday.cloud/
1•niroc•9m ago•0 comments

Starcrossed – A Travelling Salesman Game

https://starcrossed.franzai.com/
1•franze•10m ago•0 comments

Claude Agent SDK for Python

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python
3•LER0ever•10m ago•0 comments

Sora 2 System Card

https://openai.com/index/sora-2-system-card/
1•wertyk•10m ago•0 comments

Sandboxing Untrusted Libraries

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3733699
1•psicombinator•11m ago•0 comments

Time needed to factor large integers

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/30/time-needed-to-factor-large-integers/
1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

EA Sold for $55B

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/electronic-arts-go-private-55-billion-deal-with-pi...
2•jjuliano•16m ago•0 comments

Imgur Has Left the UK

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/imgur-has-left-the-uk-181715724.html
2•ksec•20m ago•0 comments

Community-1: unleashing open-source diarization

https://www.pyannote.ai/blog/community-1
1•hbredin•21m ago•1 comments

Whoop's Advanced Labs blood test service is now live in the US

https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/whoops-advanced-labs-blood-test-integration-service-launch...
1•brandonb•21m ago•0 comments

UNIX99, a Unix-like OS for the TI-99/4A

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380883-unix99-a-unix-like-os-for-the-ti-994a/
2•naves•23m ago•0 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.5.9

https://www.sbcl.org/news.html#2.5.9
2•Bogdanp•25m ago•0 comments

Gist of Go: Atomics

https://antonz.org/go-concurrency/atomics/
1•fprog•25m ago•0 comments

CTFs as a Rosetta Stone

https://bhmt.dev/blog/ctf/
1•chaosharmonic•26m ago•0 comments

Labor's Crisis Is Not a PR Problem

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/labor-movement-crisis-pr-strategy/
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

New AI video gen from OpenAI raises new questions

https://handyai.substack.com/p/sora-2-and-the-messy-future-of-ai
1•jakehandy•26m ago•0 comments

Project Toothless

https://github.com/vladartym/toothless
1•vuuduu•27m ago•0 comments

ZomBee Watch

https://www.zombeewatch.org/
1•medmunds•27m ago•1 comments

Vibesdk: Cloudflare's open source AI-coding app toolkit

https://github.com/cloudflare/vibesdk
1•bnchrch•28m ago•0 comments

Tov Siding and Roofing – Protecting and Enhancing Your Home

https://www.tovsiding.com/
1•SeattleTowncar•30m ago•0 comments

Dorothy – A dotfile ecosystem: cross-shell, cross-OS, cross-arch

https://github.com/bevry/dorothy
1•TheTaytay•30m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's market cap tops $4.5T

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/nvidias-market-cap-tops-4point5-trillion-on-ai-infrastructure-dea...
3•belter•31m ago•2 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•1h ago

Comments

xusbnet•31m 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.