What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) — and It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

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What’s SAP, and why’s it worth $163B? (2020) retool.com \| points: 751 \| comments: 623

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It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over bae.st \| points: 372 \| comments: 430

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Patreon laid off their security team twitter.com \| points: 365 \| comments: 252

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Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team wsj.com \| points: 350 \| comments: 409

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Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 306

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H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act congress.gov \| points: 239 \| comments: 235

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Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says bloomberg.com \| points: 236 \| comments: 329

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Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? nature.com \| points: 211 \| comments: 216

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Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983) archive.org \| points: 201 \| comments: 156

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Use.GPU usegpu.live \| points: 199 \| comments: 72

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Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change pnas.org \| points: 199 \| comments: 172

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Python type hints are Turing complete arxiv.org \| points: 196 \| comments: 102

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Ask HN: What happened to theregister.com? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 110

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FTC proposes rule to ban junk fees, bait-and-switch tactics plaguing car buyers ftc.gov \| points: 169 \| comments: 134

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Game Jam 2 Results wasm4.org \| points: 164 \| comments: 125

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Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned theregister.com \| points: 158 \| comments: 141

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Companies are buying large numbers of carbon offsets that don’t cut emissions wsj.com \| points: 154 \| comments: 172

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Making a Website Under 1kB tdarb.org \| points: 150 \| comments: 83

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Our five failed YC applications and one successful one relate.so \| points: 149 \| comments: 80

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Letters about Soap (1997) people.cs.ksu.edu \| points: 143 \| comments: 63

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