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The State of Google

2•3dedb728-3f77•1h ago
"Google Earth Pro on desktop will no longer be available for download beginning June 25, 2027."

This is the message I received today while opening Google Earth. It was in the bottom left corner of the desktop application.

What is happening at Google?

Why is it that each of the tools I have been using for the last 20 years are being destroyed one by one? Tools that have become constant in people's lives.

What are they trying to accomplish by destroying the trust gained by a generation of employees delivering the top product? Products that just worked.

Did they fire all the good employees?

Where are the men and women with long-term visions?

What is happening???

Comments

rvz•59m ago
Google is fine. One of the world’s most profitable companies.

Nothing to see here.

Work on the Fairphone 6 is turning it into the most modern pmOS smartphone

https://catcrafts.net/posts
1•pizzaiolo•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Proxy-or-Not, Proxy Detector

https://arcades.click/proxy-or-not
1•jwally•2m ago•0 comments

Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product

https://danunparsed.com/p/rapidraw-adobe
1•sambellll•4m ago•0 comments

Suggest some uncensored AI for photo genaration?

3•tafijul•7m ago•0 comments

A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China's Origin Story

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/a-lost-civilization-is-baffling-experts-and-rewriting-chinas-orig...
1•cwwc•7m ago•0 comments

Free ATS keyword checker after friends sprayed 200 resumes

https://medium.com/@grhawk/i-built-a-free-ats-keyword-checker-after-watching-friei-built-a-free-a...
1•applyboost•11m ago•0 comments

Moscow Is Speaking [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1AmMt6A9s
1•consumer451•13m ago•0 comments

Counting the Days, Revisited

https://dotat.at/@/2026-08-09-rata-die.html
1•fanf2•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Anyone that has built a marketplace, what has been your experience?

2•mfisc_019•22m ago•2 comments

Show HN: OpsCart – Read-only Kubernetes triage with incident history

https://github.com/opscart/opscart-k8s-watcher
2•opscart•25m ago•0 comments

Turn messy AliExpress dropshipping listings into clean products with AI

https://importer.omniicore.com/
2•omniicore•39m ago•1 comments

A Comprehensive Guide to InnoDB Locking

https://jahfer.com/posts/innodb-locks/
2•shay_ker•43m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-...
6•Eloissssss•48m ago•0 comments

Six Little Lines of Fail [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvUdvte1V3s
2•ruckfool•49m ago•0 comments

Waits: Arthur Samuel's Checkers

https://timereshared.com/waits-samuel-checkers/
2•abrax3141•50m ago•0 comments

Interview with Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things

https://digitalseams.com/blog/amit-patel-on-making-things
2•bobbiechen•53m ago•0 comments

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o
10•cwwc•54m ago•0 comments

Model Genome: Fingerprinting Whether an LLM Was Trained from Scratch or Derived

https://huggingface.co/blog/mayafree/model-dna
2•prof_ai_cn•56m ago•0 comments

Opus 4.6 Was the Last Coding Model That Changed How I Work

https://awaitinginput.substack.com/p/opus-46-was-the-last-coding-model
3•bsovran•58m ago•0 comments

A weapon that could help red squirrels in their Battle of Britain

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/01/10/a-weapon-that-could-help-red-squirrels-in-their-batt...
3•geneticdrifts•59m ago•0 comments

"Coding is solved" misses the point

https://blog.mastykarz.nl/coding-is-solved-misses-the-point/
3•listless•1h ago•0 comments

Incentives Are for Losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers
4•bkudria•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is your database size

2•kureikain•1h ago•1 comments

The State of Google

2•3dedb728-3f77•1h ago•1 comments

I built a video editor in Rust with extensive AI-powered features

https://github.com/heng30/wayshot
2•heng30•1h ago•0 comments

Aftermath of Catastrophic Fires in Spokane

https://www.kuow.org/climate/2026-08-07/its-apocalyptic-a-look-at-the-aftermath-of-catastrophic-f...
3•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
3•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/07/nx-s1-5839969/a-viral-mosquito-killing-laser-device-could-be-comin...
7•toomuchtodo•1h ago•2 comments

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/
25•reasonableklout•1h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Aidress – LangChain integration for cross-agent discovery and trust

https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/integrations/tools
2•mehulv24•1h ago•0 comments