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blogs.sap.com is the company blog at blogs.sap.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2012, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “What’s different in Prolog that can’t be found in other languages?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link SAP's developer blog for posts on the CAP framework and Rust, Prolog for optimization, Java bytecode instrumentation, open-source supply-chain attacks and encrypting files with gnupg. No commenter judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What’s different in Prolog that can’t be found in other languages?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-14
What Hacker News says?
Thanks! There's also Part 2 of that blog post (which doesn't involve CAP): https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/17/learning-rust-with-cap-part... But other than that, I haven't found time to continue with that project. But you can check out my YouTube channel for future endeavours: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFU7a7OMYfcpjtIpu2j47_Q
Comment linking /2020/08/17/learning-rust-with-cap-part-2/
on “What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)”Submitted Proud to Be a Moron – My Journey with Git (2015) as a story · 9 points
HN discussion:D You can run SAP in the cloud on Kubernetes: https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/guides/deployment/deploy-to-kyma Also you can re-write everything in Rust https://blogs.sap.com/2020/07/23/learning-rust-with-cap-part...
Comment linking /2020/07/23/learning-rust-with-cap-part-1/
on “What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)”Submitted Knowledge Graphs with Inductive Logic Programming as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI think it's mostly the culture surrounding SAP. SAP developers are a lot of times slow to adapt to new technology. For the UI you can use react components https://sap.github.io/ui5-webcomponents-react/?path=/story/g... or you can just generate OData services from CDS Views that are then integrated into your frontend https://blogs.sap.com/2022/02/24/sap-cds-for-new-and-experie... . The problem is that a lot of peopl…
Comment linking /2022/02/24/sap-cds-for-new-and-experienced-professionals/
on “What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)”Submitted What’s different in Prolog that can’t be found in other languages? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYes, sure https://www.sap.com/products/erp/s4hana.html It's quite nice, even though they do some crazy (also cool) stuff with it https://blogs.sap.com/2021/09/30/steampunk-is-going-all-in/
Comment linking /2021/09/30/steampunk-is-going-all-in/
on “What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)”Submitted SAP release crypto stablecoin payments demo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDifferent priorities. The goal isn't to make beautiful software. The goal is a system flexible enough to meet the users needs. I also think it is a cultural. See SAP's blog entry "Why users might think their SAP user interface is crumby" https://blogs.sap.com/2015/09/15/why-users-might-think-their...
Comment linking /2015/09/15/why-users-might-think-their-sap-user-interface-is-crumby/
on “Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System”Submitted The Socratic Digital Agent: Persuasion in ECommerce with Logic Semantic and ML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo, the bytecode instrumentation as post-compilation functional modification tool is pretty interesting. More info here: https://blogs.sap.com/2016/03/09/java-bytecode-instrumentati... . I wonder if there's any 'defense' against this kind of thing.
Comment linking /2016/03/09/java-bytecode-instrumentation-using-agent-breaking-into-java-application-at-runtime/
on “Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"”Submitted JEP 387 “Elastic Metaspace” – A New Classroom for the Java Virtual Machine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have zero knowledge of how the Dutch railway scheduling system works, nor of the nature of this failure, but SAP has been blogging recently about using Prolog for combinatorical optimization tasks such as the one that may be in use here or in SAP's Advanced Planning [1]. There are also well-known Prolog proponents from NL. [1]: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/03/11/what-you-may-not-know-of-pr...
Comment linking /2022/03/11/what-you-may-not-know-of-prolog/
on “Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today”Submitted A Brief History of OpenUI5 (and SAPUI5) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUm, well I'll try my best. In a way it's true that it's a solution looking for a problem and I think we are seeing novel ways to use it. I think a problem is that people still associate blockchain with "currencies" and payment. That is a fairly narrow view of an immutable ledger. A project that, in my opinion, gives a glimpse of the direction blockchain will go in is the Baseline Protocol - a joint project between E…
Comment linking /2020/08/21/sap-integration-with-ethereum-mainnet/
on “Ethereum Is a Dark Forest”Submitted Understanding Transfer Learning with the Smart Mirror as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOur colleagues at SAP: https://blogs.sap.com/2018/07/24/sap-cloud-platform-an-open-... Edit - and Red Hat: https://blog.openshift.com/state-of-serverless-in-kubernetes...
Comment linking /2018/07/24/sap-cloud-platform-an-open-enterprise-platform-with-a-cloud-native-core/
on “Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serverless workloads”Submitted Visual Lambdas Update: Higher-Level Blocks and Collaboration Features as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSAP, one of the largest ERP vendors, is dropping IE support this year for most of their products including legacy ones.[0] And according to SAP, "91% of Forbes Global 2000" are SAP customers.[1] So we can expect enterprises moving to "modern browsers" this year if not done already. I do create B2B apps. Last time I had to support IE11 was 6 years ago. [0]: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/02/internet-explorer-11-will-n…
Comment linking /2021/02/02/internet-explorer-11-will-no-longer-be-supported-by-various-sap-ui-technologies-in-newer-releases/
on “Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan”Submitted Automatic Rule Learning over Knowledge Graphs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs far as I know, Debian does not have any strict policy or dates for when they will stop building and publishing OpenJDK 11 binaries out of the jdk11u branch in the OpenJDK project. The jdk11u branch [1] (the source code) is currently steward by Red Hat, SAP employees and other contributors, and both Red Hat and SAP have a support roadmap, which currently goes until at least 2023 (SAP) [1] and 2024 (Red Hat) [2]. S…
Comment linking /2021/07/21/support-extension-of-sapmachine-lts/
on “Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability”Submitted Worst SAP Production Outage Disasters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI studied computer science with a minor in psychology. It's long ago, but at that time I some courses on the topic of ergonomic design of UIs. Shortly speaking every UI which stops the user from be interrupted in is workflow by waiting or searching is a microstressing event. (Interruptions are the most important of all stressors when working). Many microstressing events leads to stress and stress leads to bad produc…
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on “The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX”Submitted Why I Switched to Neovim as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> With linux, i have reasonable assurance that packages (from main repos) aren't evil Fallacy. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/06/26/attacks-on-open-source-supp...
Comment linking /2020/06/26/attacks-on-open-source-supply-chains-how-hackers-poison-the-well/
on “Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014)”Submitted Eclipse Dirigible – SAP’s Open Source Project for Low-Code Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am in a similar situation and was able to disabled Flash's EOL "kill switch" just for this old flash site with a mms.cfg: EOLUninstallDisable=1 EnableAllowList=1 AllowListUrlPattern=https://old-flash-site.com Took inspiration from https://blogs.sap.com/2020/12/10/how-to-keep-enterprise-flas...
Comment linking /2020/12/10/how-to-keep-enterprise-flash-applications-accessible-in-2021/
on “The end arrives as Adobe starts blocking Flash content”Submitted SAP Devtoberfest 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSounds great. Just by the way, I started something like this (free / free of adverts) earlier this month, on a small scale, to scratch my own itch, basically: the "Tech Aloud" podcast → https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/18/tech-aloud-podcast-an-intro...
Comment linking /2019/09/18/tech-aloud-podcast-an-introduction/
on “Launch HN: Listle (YC S19) – Listen to the Best Articles on the Internet”Submitted The Technical Foundation of the Corona-Warn-App in Germany as a story · 2 points
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