Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profile open source projects?

Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by zamnos on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:47AM (#34935051)

Fuchsia is already powering Nest devices so I am highly doubtful Google is going to kill it off. Don't let the loud contingent of people who are are still sad about Google killing off Google Reader 10 years ago drown out the sane voices. Google will never kill off Google Search or Google Keep.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by roland35 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:33AM (#34935272)

Thanks for reminding me that Reader was killed off! That just reopened the wound in my soul :(

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by zamnos on Saturday February 25, 2023 @05:36AM (#34935556)

To be clear, I am one of those people who are still sad about that. It was a social network for thoughtful writers to contrast Instagram.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by re-thc on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:57AM (#34935090)

They can kill off Nest too. Doubt it makes a difference.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by IshKebab on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:48AM (#34935904)

Probably true but I think they are aware that they need to move away from Linux in the long term because it is holding them back in various areas where Apple is beating them - especially security and software updates.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:32AM (#34935261)

why not Keep? hardly seems core

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by x86x87 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:41PM (#34938560)

Are you new around here?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Search, Gmail, Maps, Chrome and Android are probably safe. Everything else can be killed at any point in tine.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by zamnos on Saturday February 25, 2023 @01:07PM (#34938859)

You're one of the one's that are still sad that Google Killed off Reader that I referred to.

Like I said, Google's never killing of Keep.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by p1esk on Saturday February 25, 2023 @07:31PM (#34941899)

What is Google Keep? First time I’m hearing about it.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by erklik on Sunday February 26, 2023 @10:20PM (#34952555)

Notes app. Pretty similar to Evernote but simpler in some ways. Nothing ground-breaking.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by foxandmouse on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:51AM (#34946978)

What about BumpTop, Picnik, Picasa, Orkut, Timeful, Stadia, Hangouts, Surveys, Chrome apps, Youtube Go, G-Suite free edition..

A lot of these changes came with Pichai, his ethos for google seems to be to turn it into another Microsoft; Microsoft is fine, but we already have one of those. It was better when we also had a google that was true to its founding ideology... everything went downhill since that g became uppercase.

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Re:Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profil... by Gustomaximus on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:35AM (#34969120)

Google search and Google keep are strange things to merge as never kill off.

I think we can all agree on search.

Maps, Android, Chrome & YouTube would be very unlikely. Adsense too but maybe if they needed to avoid anti-trust .

Docs, drive and Gmail, probably not but I wouldn't say never.

The rest, Id say could go on the right whim of cost cutting.

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