Introducing Chroma Cloud: an open-source serverless search database that is fast, cost-effective, scalable, and reliable.

Announcing Our $3.8M Seed Round to Make Voice AI Agents Reliable 🎙 If 2024 was the year of demos, 2025 is the year of reliable voice agents. We’re excited to share that @HammingAI has raised $3.8M in seed funding led by @MischiefVC, with participation from @ycombinator, @aigrant, @pioneer_fund, @CoughdropCap, @coalitionvc, @orangecollectv, @twentytwovc, @transposevc, @OliveTreeCap and an incredible group of angels. Read more about us here: 1) Blog: hamming.ai/blog/hamming-ai-s… 2) Coverage by Kerry Flynn from Axios: axios.com/pro/media-deals/20… Humans make billions of calls every day. AI voice agents will perform a majority of these calls. Ensuring their reliability is tough — small changes can break responses, and manual testing doesn’t scale. Even when you ship your voice agents to production, teams spend hours manually listening to calls to find bugs and edge cases. At @HammingAI, we automate testing, monitoring, and governance for Voice AI agents, helping teams catch failures, optimize prompts, and flag edge cases in production. Hamming makes your Voice AI agents trustworthy. Thanks to our team, customers, and investors for believing in this mission.

1/18 I'm incredibly excited to announce @duckdb in @PostgreSQL in the latest version of @paradedb. When we set to bring fast analytics to Postgres earlier this year, we did not expect the journey to take us here. Here's what happened 🧵

In 2007 I joined a team at Google with the crazy idea to put a database in the browser. That database: SQLite. The Gears project was killed, as was the next attempt to put SQLite in the browser, and the two after that. Nearly two decades later, the dream is finally materializing. We’re on the cusp of a revolution in web app development. Local-first products like @replicache and @hello_reflect will dramatically change the way we build the web, massively improving both its ux and dx. Listen to the entire tale of how we finally got local-storage in browsers in this interview with @schickling. Thank you Johannes for the invite, this was super fun!

This week, our newsletter highlights: ▪️Our State of the City focused on the basics ▪️New downtown data showing our bounce back is the fastest in California ▪️A new innovation in our fight to end street homelessness Read more here: conta.cc/3tRmvPn Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on issues in San Jose: bit.ly/SubscribeToJoinOurLis…

Petition by CS & Math Laureates: Freedom for kidnapped children windowsontheory.org/2023/10/…

Mossad: We don’t know what’s happening CIA: We don’t know if Iran was behind the attacks in Israel WSJ: We spoke with our spy in Hezbollah leadership, four Quds generals, and the Grand Ayatollah’s personal kebab chef, and they all proudly confirmed that Iran masterminded this

SJ residents voiced their support for bold action – and last night, we delivered. mercurynews.com/2023/10/05/v…

General advice for startups: Don't hire contingency recruiters. Over the last 16yrs I have tried using contingency recruiters lots of times and it has never worked. The incentives are all wrong: * You get deluged by unqualified resumes * Applicants get trained to trick your job process * You are pressured to close quickly * No care is given to your company culture Instead of contingency recruiters, your aim should be to get an in house recruiter as soon as possible. Probably when you consistently hiring 2 employees/month. Before that point you can: * use your network/investor * use specialized job boards * use Linkedin/Github/etc * If none of that is working.. then consider using hourly or fixed retainer recruiters. That sounds like a lot of work and it is! But when you want to make a hire than recruiting is the most important function you can do so its not surprising that its a lot of work.