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Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
44•tosh•1h ago•17 comments

Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/what-to-do-when-tokens-run-out
18•fullautomation•56m ago•14 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421
29•matt_d•4d ago•11 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
27•abelanger•3d ago•3 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/
501•wiradikusuma•4d ago•346 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9...
55•txrx0000•2d ago•12 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering
1•mayop100•17m ago

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io
207•pdet•6d ago•24 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1
32•sbulaev•3d ago•10 comments

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22
44•Alifatisk•1h ago•21 comments

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems
146•maxutility•11h ago•98 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...
313•dgellow•18h ago•202 comments

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/
214•ingve•15h ago•141 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios
13•pentagrama•50m ago•7 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
205•felixbraun•16h ago•49 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
447•randycupertino•21h ago•331 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/
80•Eridanus2•12h ago•20 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...
269•gmays•23h ago•103 comments

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/
187•porridgeraisin•6h ago•145 comments

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
38•pykello•9h ago•9 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really
156•AnodicElegy•18h ago•84 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV
339•dmitrygr•2d ago•386 comments

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

https://www.micdrop.gg/
69•johnsillings•13h ago•29 comments

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/3.html
111•frizlab•5d ago•15 comments

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

https://notebook.link/blog/numba-in-the-browser/
58•xalfotis•4d ago•10 comments

US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/strategic-petroleum-reserve-trump-i...
8•NordStreamYacht•58m ago•1 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
241•sensanaty•23h ago•96 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
96•ingve•16h ago•37 comments

I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers

https://bipluk.com/
28•halfradaition•3d ago•18 comments

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-diseas...
290•theanonymousone•16h ago•236 comments
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Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees

https://valueaddvc.com/blog/stripe-vs-adyen-vs-braintree-enterprise-payment-processing-compared-in-2026
18•ksec•2h ago

Comments

Taikhoom10•2h ago
One may be tempted to think lower fees are better, but Stripe succeeds in offering an integrated solution, where convenience and simplicity outweigh price.

https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/what-stripe-can-become-broader-...

pestatije•54m ago
> convenience

until the day they randomly cancel your account

dbbk•30m ago
The fees are negotiable once you do volume anyway
speedz007•27m ago
Anecdotal, but in Singapore restaurants allow you to pay on your table via QR code. They are all Adyen.
jatins•19m ago
Are restaurants directly using Adyen? I assume it’s some point of sale system like Toast or Square that’s using Adyen and all of them are using that POS system
hibikir•9m ago
Which makes perfect sense for face to face QR payments, as that's a very low risk payment system, in a situation with minimal fraud. Therefore, you go through a system with minimal fees. Moving far away from the expensive payment systems makes perfect sense there.

But this article's headline is already lying to you, because when you look at the table, yous ee that Stripe and Braintree include the interchange fee, and Adyen won't.

See how the Stripe percentage there does cover the entire interchange fee already. In many an online store, your median interchange fee, which is set 100% by what card the customer is using, is probably going to be over 2%. So 0.6% + interchange fee might even be cheaper than Adyen.

So the real argument IMO is whether it really makes sense for the US to keep bribing customers with points and cash back to keep people using expensive credit cards, vs the regulation in other places that limit fees, and removes most credit card bonuses, other than paying at end of month. But that's up to congress.

timmg•26m ago
2.9% seems high. I wonder if the market will drive this down. Or if Stripe is really that good.
mceachen•22m ago
I suspect most CFOs/CTOs fear the risk of undertaking a rewrite of your payment processor or merchant of record layers (which can be tricky to fully test even with sandbox/test environments) more than the percentage discount and opportunity cost of not shipping more features.
__alexs•21m ago
Anyone doing high volume on Stripe is paying IC+ rates. These numbers aren't comparable as you grow.
resonious•9m ago
Stripe has such a critical mass, I think SAAS builders don't even shop. It's just of course you use Stripe. It's a like a utility. I think even customers might be surprised to see a non-Stripe checkout when purchasing a SAAS. Might even get worried.
hibikir•8m ago
You have to read the article: 2.9 includes interchange fees, 0.6 does not. It's a really bad headline
andrenotgiant•26m ago
slop
bartread•18m ago
What makes it frustrating is that the information, assuming it’s accurate, is actually useful and interesting, but it’s swaddled and interleaved in these bulky layers of unnecessary verbiage.

AI prose really is the thick crust pizza of writing.

jwr•23m ago
SaaS owner here (solo founder). I have been calculating this manually on a regular basis, as I've been wondering if it makes sense to migrate from Braintree to Stripe and what the cost difference would be. I finally moved, in spite of Stripe being slightly more expensive (but it's nearly a wash in my mix of currencies/accounts), mostly because of Braintree's catastrophically bad handling of 3D Secure (mandatory in the EU) and abysmally bad support.

However, people often say that Stripe's integrated solution outweighs the price (see other comments here). I disagree here. Sure, if you're just building an MVP, you want things to be up and running as quickly as possible, and you don't much care about processing fees. However, in the long term, if you run a sustainable SaaS over many years, these small amounts add up quickly. So, as an example, I do not use Stripe billing; I have my own subscription system. Because I looked at the amount I would be spending with them yearly, and realized that I prefer to have my own, building my own also gives me more control and flexibility. And independence, which matters quite a bit.

tonyhart7•21m ago
well, you can just pass the fee to customer
ValentineC•20m ago
The headline is nonsense. Assuming this is for the US market, Adyen's 0.6% probably only applies to lower-tier debit cards.

Some of the pricing tables are public, like Visa US's:

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/regional/na/us/support-legal/d...

Arsen-V•19m ago
Adyen’s pricing model looks much more attractive on paper, but the integration complexity and minimum processing volumes usually keep early-stage startups on Stripe or Braintree despite the higher percentage fees.
imnotr0b0t•8m ago
Braintree has been sitting idle for years. It seems PayPal bought it and forgot about it. Everything works but nothing new is being added. It's fine for cards and PayPal, but if you need anything more complex, it's not even an option.