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Timothy Chen

@tnachen

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Founder of @EssenceVenture, Co-host of @ossstartup, @theinfrapod. Ex-CEO of @hyperpilotio. SVP of Engineering @cosmos.

Seattle, WA
Joined August 2008
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@encoredotdev
Encore
11 months
Your Pain, Our Priority.
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@BustBigPharma
Americans For Pharma Reform
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🚨 DON JR: “PROFITS DON’T MATTER MORE THAN HEALTH” @DonaldJTrumpJr torched Big Pharma at @TPUSA’s AmFest, calling out drug companies for price gouging Americans while selling the same meds cheaper overseas. Don Trump Jr. also touted the fix for the price gouging, which is one
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@nuonjon
Jon Morehouse
5 days
This was a super fun convo! Thanks for having me on the pod and letting us share our OSS announcement today!
@OssStartup
Open Source Startup Podcast🎙
5 days
The future of SaaS is Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) ☁️ Today, we’re dropping an exclusive podcast with @nuonjon (Founder & CEO of @nuoninc) on why BYOC is becoming the default - and why they’re open sourcing today 🥳 Trust, AI, enterprise gravity. It’s all converging.
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@nuonjon
Jon Morehouse
6 days
Today, we launched https://t.co/uEUTKJzHqL, a community place for all things BYOC. Super excited for this launch, and more importantly to see all BYOC products in one place!
awesomebyoc.com
Discover the best Bring Your Own Cloud infra tools that support BYOC deployment
@nuoninc
Nuon
6 days
We just published awesome-byoc, a directory of products that support the Bring Your Own Cloud deployment model. We have added tools across categories: databases, streaming, observability, data integration, dev platforms, and BYOC platforms. Find it at https://t.co/3payv4ErSV
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@tnachen
Timothy Chen
7 days
Agent infra companies can outscale Hyperscalers (quoting @ivanburazin)! https://t.co/Tx0UKGivPG @theinfrapod
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@jeffreyhuber
Jeff Huber
11 days
Chroma is hiring! Help build the Apache 2.0 distributed database written in Rust powering search for frontier labs, Fortune 500, and many of your favorite startups. (25k github stars, 9M monthly downloads) The team is small and you will have an immense impact. DM me!
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@tnachen
Timothy Chen
10 days
Seeing a signed term sheet pulled in 2025 still is something
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@tech_optimist
Prashanth Rao
15 days
For anyone who cares about structured output benchmarks as much as I do, here's an early Christmas present 🎁 ! Pretty well thought out from the folks @CleanlabAI. Seems like I'll def be using it to compare LLMs using BAML and DSPy! https://t.co/clQ0BuaX9l
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A Structured Output Benchmark whose 'ground-truth' is actually right - cleanlab/structured-output-benchmark
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@ovaistariq
Ovais Tariq
11 days
Check out the Tigris Storage SDK, you will find it have so much better developer ergonomics as compared to AWS S3 SDK:
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Tigris Storage SDK provides a simple interface and minimal configuration that
@TigrisData
Tigris Data
12 days
Tired of miles of boilerplate code for simple storage operations? We got you. The Tigris Storage SDK makes simple things simple: put, get, list, delete - because using storage in your app should not be hard. Link to the full post in reply
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@tnachen
Timothy Chen
11 days
Congrats to the team here! And getting to work the man @jordan_segall :)
@jordan_segall
Jordan Segall
12 days
@getserval is an absolute rocketship and the accomplishments they've achieved is nothing short of incredible. Huge congrats to @jakeserval, Alex McLeod, @TatianaBirgisso, and the rest of the Serval team on their new financing and achieving unicorn status! Serval is not only
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@agreeahmed
Agree 🇺🇸
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Pumped to *finally* see the fruit of months of the @flowglad team's efforts coming to the light 🚀
@ycombinator
Y Combinator
12 days
.@flowglad is an open-source, zero-webhook payments provider. Their full-stack SDK lets you check customers' features and usage credits in real time, based on billing state. And their AI generates a setup prompt for your pricing model and stack, so you can one-shot payments.
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@ycombinator
Y Combinator
12 days
.@flowglad is an open-source, zero-webhook payments provider. Their full-stack SDK lets you check customers' features and usage credits in real time, based on billing state. And their AI generates a setup prompt for your pricing model and stack, so you can one-shot payments.
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@tnachen
Timothy Chen
17 days
Teddy putting his agent hat on means magic is happening
@alexdanilowicz
Alex Danilowicz
18 days
What we've learned from revamping our AI architecture over the years on @magicpatterns: 1. In the very early days (2023), we experimented with fine-tuning, but never got good results. We learned our use case was completely wrong for fine-tuning. Generating UI is very broad in
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@alexdanilowicz
Alex Danilowicz
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What we've learned from revamping our AI architecture over the years on @magicpatterns: 1. In the very early days (2023), we experimented with fine-tuning, but never got good results. We learned our use case was completely wrong for fine-tuning. Generating UI is very broad in
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@tnachen
Timothy Chen
21 days
So far a lot of things folks are excited about is the verifiablity side of cryptography, like ability to create proofs for code generation and execution, or even models itself in the process of post training
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@rronak_
Ronak Malde
21 days
Are Small Language Models (SLMs) that are only trained on tool calling the future? Nvidia just dropped ToolOrchestra, and open sourced the weights. The little 8b guy outperforms GPT5 on Humanity’s Last Exam and tau2-Bench, and is 2.5x more efficient, by only calling specialized
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@agreeahmed
Agree 🇺🇸
21 days
Our Show HN ended up at 397 points. It's a top .3% Show HN launch based on rough envelope math. We were hopeful, but surprised how much it resonated. https://t.co/qtrVP8kiG4
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Timothy Chen
22 days
Crypto and cryptography isn't really the same market. Feel like in AI, cryptography is going to be much more important. Crypto has value but not sure it brings as much as folks want it to be
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@levie
Aaron Levie
23 days
On a daily basis there are new examples of AI agent use-cases that a company didn’t do previously because it was too expensive or impractical to scale. The economic impact of AI agents will be that we will, en masse, take things that were previously extremely scarce and make
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@sdrzn
Saoud Rizwan
24 days
Claude skills at first felt like dynamically loaded slash commands, but it’s so much more. They help avoid context rot by conditionally loading additional assets like case-dependent markdown instructions or scripts to execute for more deterministic outputs. But even that felt
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@bernhardsson
Erik Bernhardsson
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We have a customer that came inbound last week. They are now running 3,000+ GPUs on @modal 😎
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