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  • AWS Acquires DuckDB
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2026
    > Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive

    Well ...

    https://killedbygoogle.com/

    Either way that news is awful. Europeans selling out to US corporations and then wondering why Europe is not competitive in software engineering anymore. Funniest thing is Draghi keeps on saying that; well, recently we also heard that the USA has full access to all national police databases in the EU now. It seems as if Washington remote-proxy-controls the EU. Quite amazing to see, too. The amount of bribe money flowing must be legendary.

  • Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2026
  • Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jul 2026
  • The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2026
    Google had access to infinite amount of human based Phds and fresh computer science graduates and effective unlimted budgets, and have been "hiring the best" for 20 years straight.

    This what they have been spending their human tokens on: https://killedbygoogle.com/

    They are a decreasing quality searching engine who shows ads. It has never been about intelligence, or lack of resources. Its about incentives and execution.

    Your AI wont save you, or make you rich or increase your productivity.

  • Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2026
    Google never sold through their first production run of Chromebook Pixels. Will prediction markets take bets on when will end up at https://killedbygoogle.com?
  • Killed by Apple
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2026
    A lot better than Google’s track record:

    https://killedbygoogle.com/

  • SaaS or Self-Hosting? What I Would Actually Use?
    1 project | dev.to | 22 Apr 2026
    Twitter killed its API and took dozens of businesses that had built on it down with it. Google has a graveyard of discontinued products that people and companies relied on. Heroku killed its free tier and thousands of small projects went dark the same day. The pattern is always the same: it works great until someone else makes a decision.
  • Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2026
    > Why should I believe that Anthropic will care about this product in 2, 3 years?

    There's no reason to believe Anthropic will stop caring about this product--they're not Google [1] after all.

    > It really feels like Anthropic's product area is extremely overextended at this point.

    I don't think so. They have one core product: the Claude model; they're enabling different ways of accessing it. Claude Code for developers, Cowork for general business tasks, and chat for consumers.

    This is their first graphic design product, but it fits nicely because once you create a prototype, you can hand it over to Claude Code to make the website, mobile app, or whatever.

    The advantage Anthropic has is their ecosystem. A Claude user will be way more productive using Design because all of their context is with Claude; other AI tools don't "know you" the way Claude does. Claude already knows your style and your preferences; it's much more likely to create designs you'd like.

    When you go to an AI you don’t normally use, you essentially have to start from scratch.

    [1]: https://killedbygoogle.com

  • Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2026
    At a minimum, the app needs updates to handle breakages caused by OS updates. It needs moderators and other staff for legal reasons since Meta is large enough that there's always a significant liability risk for even a few users. It needs to interact with the main non-VR app unless they want to fully isolate it. Etc.

    When I was at Google, I had many of these discussions about cost tradeoffs for products that were https://killedbygoogle.com/

  • OpenAI Should Build Slack
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2026
    They did. You can find few attempts here https://killedbygoogle.com/

    Google tried to build chat/video conferencing software like 5 times now. Some of attempts were even decent. They just decided that because they instantly didn't win 100% of the market they need to close it.

    > For the life of me I cannot understand why they after a decade, has let slack and teams become basically a duopoly in this space.

    The only reason Teams is even in the running is it's because it is (was) added for free to the O365 suite so many execs just went "well, since we already have it..."

    As a piece of software for voice chats it's okay but as piece of software for text chats it is absolutely atrocious piece of shit that learned zero lessons from anything else and refused to fix anything users actually want

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