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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
2026908 stories
OpenRouter is joining Stripe↗ openrouter.ai · HN · 500 comments · 964 points · Aug 19, 2026
Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment↗ lesnumeriques.com · HN · 777 comments · 959 points · May 20, 2026
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing↗ github.blog · HN · 553 comments · 767 points · Apr 27, 2026
I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support↗ nickyreinert.de · HN · 582 comments · 971 points · Apr 24, 2026
Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun↗ europeanbusinessmagazine.com · HN · 1030 comments · 1132 points · Feb 10, 2026
2025882 stories
Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor↗ github.com · HN · 223 comments · 405 points · Nov 25, 2025
Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026↗ riksbank.se · HN · 559 comments · 503 points · Oct 03, 2025
PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin↗ newsroom.paypal-corp.com · HN · 392 comments · 497 points · Sep 15, 2025
Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)↗ quartr.com · HN · 305 comments · 396 points · Jul 24, 2025
Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant↗ economist.com · HN · 769 comments · 667 points · Apr 08, 2025
2024975 stories
ISO 8583: The language of credit cards↗ increase.com · HN · 79 comments · 407 points · Dec 17, 2024
Buy payphones and retire↗ computer.rip · HN · 352 comments · 476 points · Oct 28, 2024
Show HN: Kotlin Money↗ blog.eriksen.com.br · HN · 228 comments · 427 points · Oct 08, 2024
2M users but no money in the bank↗ exercism.org · HN · 351 comments · 699 points · Sep 06, 2024
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program↗ bitsaboutmoney.com · HN · 733 comments · 1271 points · Apr 04, 2024
20231,228 stories
Increasing purchases at farmers markets using point‐of‐sale scanner data↗ onlinelibrary.wiley.com · HN · 46 comments · 63 points · Dec 29, 2023
Is it legal to mix cash in a jar?↗ jpkoning.blogspot.com · HN · 27 comments · 65 points · Nov 21, 2023
Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity↗ stripe.com · HN · 62 comments · 88 points · Mar 15, 2023
Twilio’s toll fraud problem↗ billychasen.medium.com · HN · 37 comments · 93 points · Jan 05, 2023
Update: Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 60 comments · 194 points · Jan 03, 2023
20221,175 stories
Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 679 comments · 1624 points · Sep 15, 2022
The dark side of Shopify↗ twitter.com · HN · 221 comments · 782 points · Jul 09, 2022
My Stripe Tax Story↗ gist.github.com · HN · 286 comments · 665 points · Mar 03, 2022
Bolt founder on Stripe/YC↗ twitter.com · HN · 314 comments · 1165 points · Jan 25, 2022
Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card↗ alanany.com · HN · 485 comments · 1142 points · Jan 09, 2022
20211,184 stories
How credit cards make money↗ bam.kalzumeus.com · HN · 430 comments · 615 points · Nov 05, 2021
Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute↗ justuseapp.com · HN · 285 comments · 693 points · Sep 14, 2021
Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax↗ krebsonsecurity.com · HN · 207 comments · 565 points · Jul 01, 2021
Stripe Payment Links↗ stripe.com · HN · 311 comments · 988 points · May 25, 2021
Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 225 comments · 624 points · Feb 25, 2021
20201,415 stories
Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points↗ chadscira.com · HN · 252 comments · 1181 points · Nov 04, 2020
PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network↗ reuters.com · HN · 370 comments · 942 points · Oct 21, 2020
Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments↗ federalreserve.gov · HN · 420 comments · 683 points · Aug 09, 2020
Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites↗ mtlynch.io · HN · 388 comments · 1134 points · Apr 21, 2020
Visa Buys Plaid↗ wsj.com · HN · 319 comments · 538 points · Jan 13, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks↗ tautology.town · HN · 404 comments · 685 points · Sep 08, 2026
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits↗ gadgetreview.com · HN · 149 comments · 288 points · Sep 20, 2026
Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees↗ macrumors.com · HN · 128 comments · 125 points · Sep 26, 2026
OpenRouter is joining Stripe↗ openrouter.ai · HN · 500 comments · 964 points · Aug 19, 2026
Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster↗ grapheneos.social · HN · 15 comments · 42 points · Sep 22, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks↗ tautology.town · HN · 404 comments · 685 points · Sep 08, 2026
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits↗ gadgetreview.com · HN · 149 comments · 288 points · Sep 20, 2026
Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees↗ macrumors.com · HN · 128 comments · 125 points · Sep 26, 2026
Italy proposes no fees for digital euro payments under €10↗ euronews.com · HN · 18 comments · 60 points · Sep 09, 2026
Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster↗ grapheneos.social · HN · 15 comments · 42 points · Sep 22, 2026
Stripe Withholding Balance of $100000↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 17 comments · 11 points · Sep 19, 2026
Pulley is shutting down and will cease all operations and services on Dec 8th↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 13 comments · 11 points · Sep 15, 2026
Show HN: Agent-to-agent payment. Your agents can pay each other↗ openspender.com · HN · 1 comments · 10 points · Sep 04, 2026
M-Pesa - A Mobile Phone-based Money Transfer Service↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 0 comments · 7 points · Sep 09, 2026
Some Thoughts on the Economics of UPI and MDR↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 20, 2026

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