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Stripe Link exposes merchants to undefendable fraud risk

My business was recently hit by a fraudulent customer who spent over $1200 across multiple transactions over a few days. Every payment was made through Stripe Link.The problem I discovered afterward is that Link abstracts away the real payment method, without necessarily causing a liability shift against fraud.Despite enabling multiple layers of protection (Chargeback Protection, extra 3DS...

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This is neat, but when I looked for some specific filming locations (as opposed to a city-level listing), I didn't find much. Obviously, creating a precise filming location database is an order-of-magnitude harder problem to solve.
Re:Meta glasses are a workplace menace on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:52PM (#49378595)
Many years ago, I remember a guy coming to an in-person interview wearing a pair of Google Glass glasses. Everyone on the engineering team found it off-putting and disconcerting. I explicitly asked him to remove them before we started.

Needless to say, he was not hired.

Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @06:11PM (#46397396)
Just finished Ken Kocienda's "Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs".

It was interesting to read about the various decisions made along the way to the first iPhone launch and remember the real-time launch back then. Even though the first phone had limitations, they were able to do enough things "right" that you could feel the paradigm shift within a few minutes of using it. Coming from a mobile software company at the time (and having access to all the top phones of the time, various Blackerry devices, Moto Razr, etc) it was easy to see that Apple had really made something extraordinary with its software.

Thanks for sharing your work. I'm not sure I have a particular use for it at the moment, but it's well executed.

One point of (hopefully) constructive feedback is that it wasn't obvious from my first interaction with the temporary doc that I was able to create checklists and bullet points. Once I saw that those are possible, I quickly guessed the keystrokes, but it might be helpful to add some graphical guidance.

Re:The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (2013) on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:45PM (#40444616)
There are major cultural differences between these schools that the article doesn't touch upon. Having presented business/product ideas to classmates & colleagues at both schools, here's a gross simplification of responses I've experienced:

Me: I have an idea for "foo"

MIT reply: "Here's a list of 10 reasons why that won't work"

Stanford reply: "That's neat, and here's 10 reasons you should work on it"

One might see the Stanford response as unrealistic or patronizing, but one of these creates a culture of positive ideation (and hustle-culture startups) while the other leads to a lot of discouraged entrepreneurs.

You could always just use USPS.

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Re:Polyphemus silk spinning – from cocoon to yarn on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:16PM (#25009802)
I'm so glad some folks found this a worthwhile post and also thanks for sharing your story. It seems that these caterpillars just eat/grow/molt ceaselessly until it's time to spin a cocoon!

These single-subject, old school design websites make me nostalgic for the early web.

p.s. Coming across this site made me want to build an entire grade-school curriculum based on "silk". There's so many subjects to cover, including: Biology (worm lifecycle, climate) History (trade, Silk Road) Chemistry (why silk is so strong) Arts (what can be made of silk, production process)

Re:Polyphemus silk spinning – from cocoon to yarn on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:46PM (#25002920)
The rest of the site is also pretty interesting and includes photos of various silkworm species at different stages of development.
Re:New glove-like device mimics sense of touch on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:46PM (#24559691)
This is very neat tech, and if you're interested, there's a startup further along on developing haptic technology for VR.

https://tacticalhaptics.com/

Re:Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:44AM (#20231509)
Interesting idea, but I've found that making my own custom static touchbar has been the most useful way to use this hardware. Followed this article: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/

I personally have a mix of app launchers, brightness/volume controls and a play/pause button.

Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:01PM (#19800490)
This is a great story about how company culture can get in the way of progress. Thank you "OldTubers" for getting this started!
.....and $FB is up 6% in after-hours trading
Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:20PM (#19221599)
He's probably referring to a regular mouse that you move around your desk. As opposed to a touchpad or static mouse with a large sphere you spin around with your thumb.
Re:Tell HN: I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:01AM (#18872067)
This is the reason I created the startup checklist (https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist)... so founders could know step by step what needs to be done to set up their companies.

Since you'll eventually have to understand all the legal aspects of operating a business, you might as well start off that way.

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