Most mom and pop stores (Kirana stores) in India cannot get a PoS device easily. UPI solves this problem by being much easier for merchants to onboard and start accepting payments with just a QR code instead of a PoS device.

Not just about PoS device. During early credit/debit card days, lot of stores would pass on merchandise fees directly to customers, giving discount in case of cash transactions, some stores still charge extra. This is not allowed in west as credit cards require same price as cash transactions, and most users perceive credit card rewards as something positive as one would lose out on this rewards when using cash. In India perception is that one would be making loss* if using credit cards. UPI with no fees as of now, is perceived as equal to cash by most people not dealing with black money.

> This is not allowed in west as credit cards require same price as cash transactions

Network rules disallowing customer surcharges have actually become prohibited by law in quite a few places.

Discounts coupons are legally allowed based on payment method type. Seller often provide discount coupons when you use UPI payment method.

Reinventing Socialism from first principals

The problem is that node.js doesn't have a good standard library so one must rely on external packages to build even basic apps.

Can you tell us what exactly is missing? A network api? Process execution? IO? Math?

From this we can see a few patterns: https://www.npmleaderboard.org/

Node.js doesn't have good support for regex, handling files, streams, serving static html, routing, operations on lists/dicts.

I hope ronan farrow doesn't mind his article being shared like this

It’s also available via public libraries in USA via Libby if your local library system pays for a subscription, so it’s a way to support the magazine indirectly, since your local taxes pays for your library. The downside for weekly is you have to read it that week, no archive access.

Which edition? I looked at April 6th and can’t see the article.

The New Yorker posts digital articles in advance of the release of the print edition.

At the bottom of this article it says: Published in the print edition of the April 13, 2026, issue, with the headline “Moment of Truth.”

As someone who reads the print magazine every week, I always scroll down to check if the article will be published and skip it if so (so I can read it when my magazine arrives).

Thanks. Can confirm the print edition is assigned a date that is 5 days after it becomes available in the Press Reader app in the UK (not sure why) and the article is in that edition.

The information is more important than the wants of the writer, always.

I’m not going to pay for another newspaper subscription just to read one article

First day on HN?

This looks interesting. What I don't understand is: how was it implemented without a server relay. I am no expert in WebRTC (or P2P for that matter) but I always assumed that there needs to be a central location for users to exchange their addresses and only then a P2P connection can be established. This must be the case here as well right? Or am I mistaken?

That is exactly the case, there is a server in the background responsible for maintaining sessions and setting up WebRTC connections(ICE handshakes), when all clients are connected - messages are sent p2p

I am working on a standalone CLI tool that can do analytics find it here: https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics

Motivation for the project:

> This project was born out of the need for a lightweight analytics tool to track internal services on a resource-constrained VPS. Most SaaS analytics products either lack the scalability or exceed their free tier limits when tracking millions of events per month. Minimalytics addresses this gap by offering a minimalist, high-performance solution for resource-constrained environments.

I recently did a Show HN which you can find on my profile.

Thank you! Copying and processing the sqlite is always an option but I agree something like CSV exports are a good feature to add.

Wow. It looks like the two of us were responding to the same underlying needs. Great to see your project.

This is an interesting use case. I can definitely see how a colored cell in a grid can serve as a visual indicator to monitor health of infrastructure. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you! I already had experience working in React so I decided to use it for the first release.

I am thinking about switching to HTMX to further reduce size, simplify and improve performance.