Hacker News with Generative AI: Payments

Square's $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table (theverge.com)
The Square Handheld is available today for $399 with support for traditional card transactions and tap-to-pay, scanning products, and managing inventory, all from a single device.
Commerce, POS Systems, Technology, Payments
5 points by 01-_- 10 days ago | 1 comments
Column launches new unified FedNow and TCH RTP API (column.com)
Our Realtime payments product is now available in the United States.
Financial Technology, Payments, APIs, Real-time Payments
13 points by _praf 10 days ago | 0 comments
Stripe Stablecoin Financial Accounts (stripe.com)
With a stablecoin balance on Stripe, you get dollar access and can send and receive funds globally in both US dollars and stablecoins in over 100 countries.
Finance, Payments, Stablecoins, Cryptocurrency
23 points by bpierre 16 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: X402 – an open standard for internet native payments (x402.org)
Built around the HTTP 402 status code, x402 enables users to pay for resources via API without registration, emails, OAuth, or complex signatures.
Open Source, Payments, API, HTTP
16 points by __erik 17 days ago | 6 comments
Stripe starts showing devs how to kill the App Store fee with a 2.9% alternative (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Stripe, Developers, Payments, Business
12 points by rmason 21 days ago | 0 comments
Link Out for In-App Purchases (stripe.com)
In some countries, you can link to an external website to accept payments on iOS.
In-App Purchases, iOS, Payments, Stripe
34 points by mfiguiere 22 days ago | 11 comments
Bringing Agentic AI to Payment Operations (moderntreasury.com)
Introducing Modern Treasury AI, which comprises a context-aware AI Agent and a collaborative Workspace, transforming how companies manage payment operations.
Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Business, Payments
24 points by mattmarcus 22 days ago | 0 comments
97% of drivers want in-car payment system for tolls, parking, charging (arstechnica.com)
Imagine having a well-designed payment app for your car's infotainment system that let you effortlessly pay for parking, road tolls, EV charging, or refueling. Such a concept found universal appeal among US drivers, according to a study by a market research company. But simplicity is key: The moment it gets difficult to register or use such an app, interest wanes and people prefer to pay for things the older-fashioned ways, DriveResearch found.
In-Car Technology, Payments, Transportation, Consumer Research
4 points by PaulHoule 37 days ago | 0 comments
Stripe's payment API: The first 10 years (2020) (stripe.com)
A few years ago, Bloomberg Businessweek published a feature story on Stripe. Four words spanned the center of the cover: “seven lines of code,” suggesting that’s all it took for a business to power payments on Stripe.
Payments, Business, APIs, Stripe, Fintech
24 points by lispybanana 42 days ago | 2 comments
Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant (economist.com)
Brazil, Finance, Payments, Government, Economics
667 points by jcartw 45 days ago | 769 comments
Christine Lagarde wants EU to ditch Visa, Mastercard for own platform (businesstoday.in)
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is calling for a payments revolution — one that breaks Europe's reliance on U.S. and Chinese platforms like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Alipay.
Finance, European Union, Payments, Technology
33 points by belter 48 days ago | 15 comments
PayPal launches remote and local MCP servers (paypal.com)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) supports managing and passing relevant information to models with appropriate context, so they operate properly within a given scope. Using this functionality, PayPal developed PayPal MCP Server to enable merchants to use natural language with their favorite MCP client to perform business tasks, such as creating or listing invoices.
Payments, Business, API
9 points by init0 51 days ago | 2 comments
DoorDash and Klarna signed deal where customers can pay for food in installments (unusualwhales.com)
Fintech, Food Delivery, Payments, Partnerships
9 points by nradov 63 days ago | 8 comments
Open source payments and billing infrastructure (github.com/flowglad)
Flowglad wants to change that.
Open Source, Payments, Billing, Infrastructure
15 points by mooreds 70 days ago | 6 comments
Show HN: Borderless Venmo (eth.cash)
Show HN, Cryptocurrency, Payments
5 points by carrabre 71 days ago | 5 comments
Mastercard plans to get rid of credit card numbers (abc.net.au)
Mastercard has announced plans to remove the 16-digit number from their credit and debit cards by 2030 in a move designed to stamp out identity theft and fraudulent use of cards.
Financial Technology, Security, Payments, Identity Theft
9 points by stubish 109 days ago | 2 comments
India's payment push is cutting out Visa and Mastercard (techcrunch.com)
As digital payments morph into strategic assets, India is offering a template for other nations seeking to reduce dependence on Western payment networks.
India, Finance, Payments, Technology, Competition
10 points by jmsflknr 134 days ago | 0 comments
Stripe V2 (brandur.org)
I happened to notice by way of a Slack bot today that Stripe released a V2 version of their API. I thought this must’ve been a soft launch right before the holidays, surely to be followed up by a more formal blog post, but the Way Back Machine clocked the page in early October, making it three months old. It’s been there all along, I just hadn’t seen it before.
Software, API, Payments
101 points by surprisetalk 145 days ago | 53 comments
NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database (alvaroduran.com)
I had the weirdest realization a few days ago.
Payments, Software Development
26 points by ohduran 157 days ago | 12 comments
Google to suspend payments for Russian app developers (kyivindependent.com)
Google, Russia, App Developers, Payments, Geopolitics
8 points by aa_is_op 160 days ago | 0 comments
ask hn: PayPal or Stripe? (ycombinator.com)
I'm thinking of creating a small SaaS company, but I'm not sure which of these two systems is best for implementing a payment system for my website.
SaaS, Payments, Stripe, PayPal, Business
4 points by cannibalXxx 165 days ago | 6 comments
Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine) (stripe.com)
Stripe, Black Friday, Ecommerce, Payments, Analytics
50 points by oli5679 173 days ago | 20 comments
Stripe BFCM Live (stripe.com)
Stripe, E-commerce, Payments, Black Friday, Cyber Monday
11 points by CosmosSeb 175 days ago | 2 comments
To apply for a job at Musk's DOGE, you need to pay for an X premium subscription (fortune.com)
While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up.
Elon Musk, Social Media, Business, Politics, Payments
27 points by belter 188 days ago | 3 comments
Unified Checkout: Streamlining Uber's Payment Ecosystem (uber.com)
Unified Checkout, Payments, Fintech, Uber, Business
26 points by timbilt 189 days ago | 1 comments
Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July (theregister.com)
Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform.
Business, Software, Payments, Digital Marketplaces
127 points by newaccount74 220 days ago | 21 comments
Tell HN: DigitalRiver/MyCommerce stopped paying vendors since July (ycombinator.com)
We're a small family company and the $20k MyCommerce owes us is a big deal.
Business, Finance, Payments, Companies
155 points by grujicd 220 days ago | 45 comments
Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (visa.com)
Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, is helping to bridge existing fiat currencies with blockchains through the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP), a new product designed to help financial institutions issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks.
Financial Technology, Blockchain, Payments, Digital Assets
72 points by beefman 232 days ago | 29 comments
Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard (bloomberg.com)
The European Union’s biggest banks have spent years quietly creating a new way to pay that could finally allow customers to ditch their Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. cards — the latest sign that the region is looking to dislodge two of the most valuable financial firms on the planet.
Finance, Payments, Competition, Europe, Technology
66 points by helsinkiandrew 239 days ago | 88 comments
Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines (alvaroduran.com)
There are two ways to represent movement.
Payments, Engineering, State Machines
24 points by ohduran 241 days ago | 14 comments