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• Art of saying no!
  1 project | dev.to | 2 Nov 2024

  This is more of a personal observation. But I think you’d understand the story. It’s the apple vs google story. Apple, the rich kid’s gadget. Shiny tool, and even fancier apps in it. Why is it so popular? I really like the apple’s engineering philosophy. I think Steve Jobs did it, or maybe later on someone else. I’m not sure. But apple is notoriously known as the slowest ones to ship the features. The perfectionists! The against the grain people. Apple has a philosophy where they tries to completely build a feature to it’s perfection, and then move on to the next one. So, it’s become quite synonymous with apple, the word quality! It’s more reliable. Google on the other hand, they have a internal policy of pushing as many passion projects as possible. They have the numbers game policy. I think they had almost 20 chat apps, that got killed. Thus the famous Killed by Google list!

• REPL for Dart: supporting 3rd party packages, hot reload, and full grammar
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2024

  Not sure why you are triggered by this (do you work on Flutter?) but this "weird" story is backed by https://killedbygoogle.com/ - we are not talking about a company without a track record here. Peace out.

• Google Cache Is Fully Dead
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2024

  bro, do yourself a favor, and go meditate in the google graveyard.

  https://killedbygoogle.com/

  for how to do it, see:

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati

  make sure to read it fully, including all the links, recursively.

  and

  https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=17516&start=20

  https://damsara.org/interesting-new-findings/solitary-night-...

  just kidding.

  but really, do you seriously think that people in companies do things for any reason rather than their own benefit? do you? nope. nyet. nahi. nada. coz everyone is that way.

• CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2024

  - (For those familiar with NumPy) CuPy is closer to NumPy than jax.numpy

  But CuPy does not support automatic gradient computation, so if you do deep learning, use JAX instead. Or PyTorch, if you do not trust Google to maintain a project for a prolonged period of time https://killedbygoogle.com/

• Why GitHub Won
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2024

  >Google Video was created to prevent Youtube from becoming a shitty monoculture, too?

  Same with: https://killedbygoogle.com/

  Google is the good guy to prevent monopolies ;)

• Google Is Killing Chromecast
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2024

  Another addition to https://killedbygoogle.com/.

• Should you use Firebase for your app or website?
  1 project | dev.to | 6 Aug 2024

  Anytime Firebase comes up, there’s always someone (usually an engineer or a business person who has heard it from an engineer), who says “never use Firebase because Google will kill it soon”. Then they point to some Killed by Google. The short answer to this question is probably not. Here’s my logic for this:

• Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2024

  > That's the difference of a founder-led company vs. market led.

  Are they really so different?

  Facebook throws things at the wall, even expensive things without a clear path to profitability, such as Llama.

  Google throws things at the wall, even expensive things without a clear path to profitability, such as waymo, google glass, google fiber, stadia, and everything on https://killedbygoogle.com

  Facebook made a big companywide re-orientation to deliver a vision that flopped - the metaverse.

  Google made a big companywide re-orientation to deliver a vision that flopped - google plus.

  Facebook renamed themselves to Meta. Google renamed themselves to Alphabet.

  Facebook has an AI research division founded by a French-American computer scientist and Turing award winner. Google has an AI research division founded by a British-Canadian computer science professor and Turing award winner.

  Facebook released a widely used open source Python ML library with a camelcase name, PyTorch. Google released a widely used open source Python ML library with a camelcase name, TensorFlow.

  Perhaps they're following the same playbook, it's just luck that Facebook's gambles paid off recently.

• How to burn US$10M on an ArXiv preprint
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2024

  https://killedbygoogle.com/

  I’m confident each one of them were multiple of $10M investments.

  And this is just what we know because they were launched publicly.

• Ask HN: Why Google shut down business.site website feature?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2024

  Anything that Google does apart from make money selling ads and turning the internet into an ad cesspool functions as a smoke screen to fool the public (and their employees) into thinking they do anything of real value or that serves the community. All of it https://killedbygoogle.com/ serves as a (relatively) inexpensive marketing tool.

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