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Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?
I just haven't seen anything that catches my eye (and many sites make it surprisingly difficult to browse their Black Friday deals). I refuse to go out and shop (it's too cold, & I don't really want to mess with the crowds), but I would buy something online if it was a good price & I had a use for it.
Any suggestions or discoveries?
- GuiA 10y agoThe nature of your question in itself indicates that there is nothing you should buy. Buy things if you need them, otherwise leave your wallet in your pocket.
- sorahn 10y agoI took it to mean "I have some extra money, and I want something to fiddle with, is there anything that the hackernews readers know of that might be on sale?" But maybe that's just my question...
- ralmeida 10y agoI took that point too, and there's also another point... there's software that's on my list for a while (JetBrains and Hazel come to mind, in particular), but since the exchange rate for me is bad, a sale might tip me over the edge.
- tedmiston 10y agoJetBrains does nice discounts around conferences. PyCharm was 30% off for PyCon for example. I think anyone can use the code whether you attend or not.
- mrmrcoleman 10y ago+1
- slededit 10y agoI purchased a 1TB EVO 850 from newegg/amazon (both have the same price). But I had a specific need for large fast storage.
- ctchocula 10y agoThanks for the heads up! Been meaning to buy one for gf's 2012 MBP, and now seems like the best time.
- hga 10y agoYeah, Newegg has a variety of interesting storage deals, I picked up 1 out of 2 $30 refurbished Dell branded Seagate Cheetah drives they had that are the same model as I used 3 of in a computer I built in 2011, all the original drives are of course beyond Seagate's 5 year enterprise warranty service (which is good in my experience). Might save me time and trouble when one of the original drives gives up the ghost.
- ryuker16 10y agoSlickdeals.net is your friend. Some TV deals and SSD deals. Amazon discounted all its hardware stuff around 15% it seems. Picked up the fire 4k box for $65.
- rebirth2 10y agoam waiting for the safari books online subscription deal. Last yr they had a 50% price drop.
- psyklic 10y agoOn Twitter: "sorry, no big sale this year. Contact us via http://bit.ly/1aK0wMg http://bit.ly/1aK0wMg and we are happy to talk about available discounts." - https://twitter.com/safari/status/798558536905224192 https://twitter.com/safari/status/798558536905224192
- rebirth2 10y agosadboy :(
- noja 10y agonearest I saw: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle
- Steppschuh 10y agoNewton Mail subscription is 50℅ off at the moment, which I find is a great deal for their service.
- mmerlin 10y agoUdemy has a few interesting courses reduced to $0 courtesy of OzBargain https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/276987 https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/276987
- cookingrobot 10y agoHTC Vive is $100 off this weekend on Amazon.
- lwhalen 10y agoDoes the Vive support Macs or Linux yet?
- icecreammatt 10y agoValve has indicated that support for it is coming soon. Their recent developer conference they demoed it running on Linux. I'm not sure how well it's going to work on Mac with the lack of decent graphics cards unless maybe using a Hackintosh.
- sunnynagra 10y agoIt is essentially $200 off through the Microsoft Store. $100 off and $100 gift card
- fauria 10y agoMachine Learning Mastery has a 40% discount on all their products using the code "blackfriday": http://machinelearningmastery.com/ http://machinelearningmastery.com/
- ncr100 10y agohttps://supporters.eff.org/donate/button https://supporters.eff.org/donate/button
- svacko 10y agoIf you are into a software architecture, @simonbrown is offering both of his software architecture books for FREE on Leanpub https://twitter.com/simonbrown/status/800340593507438593 https://twitter.com/simonbrown/status/800340593507438593 https://leanpub.com/b/software-architecture https://leanpub.com/b/software-architecture
- hga 10y agoThanks. Having started this game in 1997, in some respects fortunately with punched card FORTRAN and hands on use of an IBM 1130, since that sent me straight to the library because I knew there had to be better ways, and being cash strapped right now I'm not in the market for architecture books. But for free? I'll try them for sure, and who knows, may pay him some real money in the future, nothing ventured, nothing gained. At least for me, one good free book has more than a few time resulted in that.
- grecy 10y agoPut some gas in your tank and head out camping for a weekend. Or take some unpaid leave and spend the time with you family.
- jakebasile 10y agoHe did say it was too cold outside, so maybe camping wouldn't work. :)
- jakebasile 10y agoIf you're a gamer, there's tons of stuff on sale. On Steam you can get Doom for $20, and it is well worth it. I'm also binging on The Division which is $25 with an optional $20 season pass for some extra stuff. If you want something more low key Stardew Valley might be the ticket.
- kek918 10y agoYeah it's pretty dangerous to browse Steam now... I already purchased 4 games today (even two AAA titles), and I still have 5-6 untouched games from the last christmas sale.
- majewsky 10y ago> I only have 5-6 untouched games FTFY :)
- jakebasile 10y agoIf you're interested in the actual stats for your Steam library, check out the SteamDB calculator[1]. [1]: https://steamdb.info/calculator/ https://steamdb.info/calculator/
- kek918 10y agoInteresting! 40 of my 102 games haven't been played yet. Jesus christ, I'm gonna have to call in sick next week to catch up here.
- patrickk 10y agoFor anyone based in Germany/Europe, mydealz.de lists offers, you can sort by "hot" to see the most popular ones. (not affiliated)
- govind201 10y agoTop discounts by product category: http://blackfriday.semantics3.com/dashboards/RJ7EP446XUIOLEU7 http://blackfriday.semantics3.com/dashboards/RJ7EP446XUIOLEU... Might aid the discount hunting process, if not the decision making process.
- kyriakos 10y agodigitalocean had some good deals for cyber monday last year if I am not mistaken. I haven't checked this year.
- wesbos 10y agoI've put two of my JavaScript courses on sale for 50% off: ES6 For Everyone https://ES6.io https://ES6.io React For Beginners https://ReactForBeginners.com https://ReactForBeginners.com
- enibundo 10y agoThe urge to buy is real. Just be frugal and enjoy your day :)
- olalonde 10y agoPacktPub[0] and PragProg[1] both have discounts on eBooks (50% and 40%). [0] https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/thanksgiving-2016 https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/thanksgiving-2016 [1] https://pragprog.com/ https://pragprog.com/
- veli_joza 10y agoHumble has a nice UNIX book bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle
- vldmr 10y agoI'll just leave it there. Real discount for domaine names, shared hosting and ssl. https://www.namecheap.com/domain-hosting-ssl-deals/black-friday.aspx https://www.namecheap.com/domain-hosting-ssl-deals/black-fri...
- _puk 10y agoThanks for the link, but current deals all gone (other than Comodo Instant SSL, lots of those left) New ones at 6am EST
- jedisct1 10y agoOVH Black Friday deals: https://www.ovh.com/us/black-friday/ https://www.ovh.com/us/black-friday/
- SanderMak 10y agoO'Reilly is running a 50% discount on all ebooks: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/cyber-monday.do http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/cyber-monday.do (full disclosure: I'm writing 'Java 9 Modularity' with them, available in early access)
- pyb 10y agoIs it just me, or are some of their prices double the price at Amazon ?
- sarsaul 10y agoBest one I found: https://twitter.com/HostingerCOM/status/801435545696092160 https://twitter.com/HostingerCOM/status/801435545696092160 seems like one of the best deals for hosting and domains out there.
- apricot13 10y agoIf your in the UK http://www.hotukdeals.com/black-friday http://www.hotukdeals.com/black-friday lists all the current deals.
- weavie 10y agoApress [1] are doing ebooks for £9.99 and print books for £12.50. Picked up a copy of Practical Common Lisp for £12.50. Even second hand these are going on Amazon for £25, and lord knows I've been through that book online enough times to know it's about time I got myself a hard copy! [1] http://www.apress.com/gp/shop/cybermonday?&token=cyber16&wt_mc=Internal.Banner.3.EPR868.APRShopLP_EN_CYBER16_Banner http://www.apress.com/gp/shop/cybermonday?&token=cyber16&wt_...
- hga 10y agoThanks! I've already bought PCL, but noticed a couple of newer RDBMS books by C J Date, and add these observations: I suppose this changes if you create an account and log into it, but the prices are initially quoted in Euros (close the US$ right now), and shifted to dollars after I entered my address in the registration process. They say free shipping to individuals world wide, and the physical book I bought is going to be printed on demand by Springer Customer Service Center LLC, with the usual delays. And of course the ebook I bought was immediately available; all very slick so far.
- jgooch 10y agoI'd love to see aCloud or identify deals on Amazon Web Services training. lets hope that it happens.
- andrewhayter 10y agoSame here, keeping my eye out for exactly this.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoAny good deals for setting up a home GPU cluster? Like GTX 1080s, motherboards with multiple PCI Express slots, etc.
- rwd 10y agohttps://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/ is half price all weekend. http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/11/24/Black-Friday-2016-Deals-For-Game-Developers.aspx http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/11/24/Black-Friday-... has deals for game creators.
- NoCanDo 10y agoNot really. It's just a marketing scam.
- pasbesoin 10y agoI've done my own personal "cost/benefit" for these things. We might call it "dollars saved / aggravation induced". Short answer: Ratio is consistently way too low. Message to retailers: Make my life easier, if you want my business. (Fair price for a good product and support.)