borski 🇺🇦 ✡️

hacker | founder | cybersecurity expert | angel investor | singer/musician | UX enthusiast

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@bcherny I built a travel hacking toolkit for specifically this purpose: https://t.co/TEigLhDPMm

Works in cowork, as a Claude plugin :)

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@shijiew_ @garrytan Hermes has max turn limits by default, and as a config option. I imagine openclaw does too.

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

I built a travel hacking toolkit for AI agents. Search award flights across 27 mileage programs, compare cash vs points, optimize transfer partners, find sweet spots, book hotels with portal benefits stacked.

https://t.co/TEigLhDPMm

Works in Claude, Codex, and OpenCode.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

We just got this Force Majeure letter today from AirGas, our helium supplier (for our food science lab, where we have multiple mass-spec instruments that use helium).

The letter says that helium supplies are cut off, and if you're lucky, you might be allotted HALF the helium you need. Even then, you will be charged extra for any helium you get. A LOT extra.

So basically, every mass spec lab in America is about to go offline. AirGas is expressly invoking FM and saying they cannot meet their contractual obligations. Not their fault. Trump did this by attacking Iran.

My lab is fine, of course, because I saw this coming and I ordered my lab staff to buy a one-year supply weeks ago. We already have it in place. So we're still up and running with plenty of helium.

But very few lab science people are paying attention to the Strait of Hormuz, so they are getting blindsided by this.

Trump's war is shutting down science labs all across the country right now. Don't dare call this "winning." It's a loss for America. And the world.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Someone asked what advice founders ignore. That they:

1. Should change their name.

2. Should launch fast.

3. Shouldn't treat fundraising as success.

4. Shouldn't assume they can raise because it's time to.

5. Should fire bad people quickly.

6. Shouldn't talk to acquirers.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America. 

Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.

They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.

This was not a drill.

This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.

Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.

Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.

The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  https://t.co/lxQD3X8jaM

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

I have definitely never said this before. That’d be crazy.

I’m so surprised.

[Rae 🍽️ @raechellambert]

Husband and I tried Miami for 1 year after living in SF and NYC tech scenes.

Very top heavy - mostly successful founders and VCs who go to live in their nice houses and aren’t out there being part of the community

Tons of larping founders - I got invited to some “female founder dinners” and every single woman showed up dressed for a kardashian wedding and had obviously spent all their time in the salon, not building a startup

The grifting is real - we won Miami Hack Week in 2023. The $10k prize money did not exist and it took 6 months to even get a hold of the organizer. He never paid. When the next Miami hack week came around, I tried telling 3 people in the community. Organizer told them I was a liar and that I had been paid. This bullshit would never happen in SF or NYC.

Miami hack week seems to have a new organizer now so I’m hopeful it’s being better managed.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Doing the reading is a superpower, and it's even better in a world where "no one" is doing the reading. (Inspired by a conversation I had with some college students.)

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

Try "I want to go somewhere with good hiking for a week this year, find the best flights to and from." :)

Valuations built on the great work of @OneMileataTime @ThePointsGuy @UpgradedPoints and @viewfromthewing

PRs and suggestions welcome! 2/2

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

I built an open source travel hacking toolkit for AI agents, using @AnthropicAI @claudeai. Props to @SeatsAero for the awesome API.

Tell it where you want to go. It searches 25+ mileage programs, pulls your balances, and compares cash vs points.

https://t.co/4B6y3v1ryK 1/2

[Kyle Conner @itskyleconner]

This morning I was able to be the first person outside of Lucid to see and sit inside the new @LucidMotors Cosmos! This is their new midsize electric SUV and no, I can’t show it to you yet.

What I can say is that the design is sharp, super cool, and totally unique (especially in the rear end). A cab forward design enables a long tail for optimal aero efficiency but it still retains enough roof height for larger dogs. Lighting signatures are strong, bright, and sharp. The car I saw had a metallic red paint with a white interior, which honestly looked striking! Think younger, more modern, really cool looking small Gravity.

It has an insanely large front truck, huge rear cargo space with massive underfloor storage (enabled partly by the new Atlas drive unit), and more than ample second row seating space. I’m 6’1 and my head didn’t touch the expansive glass roof that extends beyond the rear seats, it’s also super wide giving a great airy feeling. Rear floor felt slightly high but there’s still enough room to fit feet underneath the front seat to unlock your leg angle.

I also spent considerable time in the front seat soaking in the view. Huge door opening with a low entry height and a ton of foot room to swing in. Materials looked beautiful in the light interior color with recycled fibers that almost felt like wool. Stitching is everywhere, glass center console cover, dark headliner… it was a high quality warm feeling environment. The A Pillar glass extends extremely far forward which enables incredible view of front blind spots. In addition there’s physical turn signal stalks & gear selector and the same / similar steering wheel out of the Gravity… which looks upside down but feels great in the hands. Oh, bottom hinged accelerator pedal!! 🙏

There’s a single pane wide screen floating above the dash that expands across the width of the car. It’s a unique view that doesn’t exist in the western world and I liked the simplicity and location. User interface should look similar to Gravity which is totally fine… if it works. No secondary screen, everything is done through that singular cross-car panel.

Electrical architecture is nearly completely new with centralized compute, insanely cool central gateway mounting location on the firewall, all designed to reduce wiring length / cost / connections. ADAS will likely be using the NVIDIA system for point-to-point L2 capability and they need to get this enabled ASAP as FSD is such a huge selling point for Tesla. Also, huge targets for quick response to phone key / NFC etc… this car can’t have access control problems or major software bugs.

Don’t know exact battery capacity or power output BUT I have some tidbits to share. ~800V system architecture, PM rear motor, induction front motor. Both are from insanely small Atlas drive unit family which I’ll have a full video coming on sometime in the future. Unsure how Lucid is doing 400V boosting, but they’ll be able to charge on Superchargers with no problem. NACS charge port in the rear driver corner. Charging sounds very fast which is badly needed in this segment.

Body in white has some amazing trickery leveraging passageways for woofer / sub woofer air flow, crash structure designed to be easily replaceable in stages to lower insurance costs, and a mixed material compound to reduce cost. Suspension also is pretty advanced for this segment, adaptive damper, virtual ball axis on the lower control arm (fixed on upper), which should give great driver / steering feel compared to the many McPherson strut options others offer. Oh, there are some big castings on this thing but the front / rear aren’t just one giant casting. We’ll talk to Cory Steuben more about that in an upcoming podcast.

Finally this should start at under $50k and feature everything EV drivers want: fast charging, pet mode, route planning, plug and charge, space, comfort, and 0-60 in 3.5 seconds.

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@_adishj @paulg Same tbh

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@MikeBotkin_ @paulg Calendar invitations, not normal conversation. Helps block the calendar from getting booked by others.

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@Tesla2Lucid Sup

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@ntwork @itskyleconner Hey, watch it, I better be on that list :)

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

I remember being told I was being alarmist. That wasn’t so long ago.

Read the tea leaves. They’re right there. It doesn’t take an Ivy League degree.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The international role of the US has already been eroding, simply because other countries are richer and more powerful than they were in 1945. But it's going to erode faster now that the US is becoming unreliable as well as inessential.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The reliability of the US government was the foundation of post-war international trade and diplomacy. What a strange thing it would be if this stopped being so because of the character of one man. Usually changes on that scale are due to deep historical forces.

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

Yup. This is horrific.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If someone had predicted before the last election that if Trump won, federal officers would be shooting Americans in the streets, he'd have been dismissed as an alarmist.

[borski 🇺🇦 ✡️ @borski]

@NextElevenDev @garrytan Sure, but it’s okay to get excited about something you’re having fun doing.