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crdunwelon Send money to a customer’s checking account using their debit card number

Sounds like a lot of bloat and over exaggeration on the part of banks and credit card companies for how much all these things cost. They're still making a killing...

crdunwelon Send money to a customer’s checking account using their debit card number

$1 fee per transaction. Done entirely by computers. In huge volumes.

There is no reason that entirely electronic transactions should cost more than fractions of a penny to process. Any justification for this cost is complete bullshit.

crdunwelon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

I use the keyboard almost exclusively and it's annoying to have to tab through everything just to get through the article list. It would be nice if I could push the arrow keys to navigate the article list (similar to google search). Thanks