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Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

122 points by nagyf 4y ago

Do you know any good black Friday deals for tech stuff?

phone_book 4y ago
Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones for $228 (normally $350) at pretty much every store (Sony, Amazon, Best Buy, etc). Just got them and they are great but I never had wireless headphones. They do take 10-20 seconds to connect to my iPad, but that might be because they are also set up with my phone. I considered the newer version but the reviews made it seem like it wasn't a huge upgrade and in some ways a downgrade, like the newer version doesn't fold to a smaller size.
- chrizel 4y ago
  I have the newer XM5s. The main reason for me to go with them instead of the cheaper XM4s was the call quality. I use my headphones very often in conference calls and the XM5s have excellent microphones compared to their predecessors. Side note: before, I have tested the Bose QC45 but those microphones are absolutely garbage. Sad, because the QC35 microphones were good. I don’t mind that the XM5s don’t fold anymore. In a way I like the new design better compared to my wife’s XM3s.
- brookside 4y ago
  "Used - Good" Sony WH-1000XM4 on Amazon seems to have an additional discount when get to checkout. I just picked up a pair for $148.26
  - d3nj4l 4y ago
    Careful buying used stuff off Amazon. I've received duds more often than not. It's patently obvious that Amazon doesn't actually do any QA/checking of stuff they sell as "used" - I bought a pair of headphones once where one of the ears was simply not working, something that any tester would catch immediately. The lower price is not worth the hassle of having to return if it doesn't work.
LorenDB 4y ago
Razer Huntsman Elite is at $120 instead of $200.
- dont__panic 4y ago
  Adding to this: ~30% off Keychron keyboards (https://www.keychron.com/pages/bfcm-2022 https://www.keychron.com/pages/bfcm-2022) for those who've been burned by Razer peripheral drivers before. I love my keychron, if you use a Mac I think it's the nicest mech keyboard out there since they offer versions with a proper mac CMD ctrl-opt-cmd layout.
- gberger 4y ago
  That is a keyboard, for anyone curious.
SirGiggles 4y ago
Bought myself a Razer Core X (Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure) for CAD$109.99 a few days ago. Was a discount of 71% off from an original price of CAD$389.99. Not sure if the US site reflects the same kinds of savings. https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-01310100-R3U1 https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-0...
- cholantesh 4y ago
  What's the use case for a device like this? E: Thanks for all the replies. I have a XPS 15 that was, maybe 5 years ago occasionally reliable for playing Doom 2014 at 1080p for half an hour before the gpu would shut itself down, maybe I could have benefited from one of these + a desktop GPU...
  - amerine 4y ago
    Adding a GPU to a Mac, or anything with TB3 really.
    - Firmwarrior 4y ago
      Keep in mind it won't work on Apple Silicon Macs though, and I think Intel Macs have limited support for nvidia cards in macOS
      - jbverschoor 4y ago
        Hardwarewise or just macos? What if you want to add the GPU to a windows/linux VM?
        SirGiggles 4y ago
        To my understanding, it's just a lack of support from both macOS and third-party vendors. There are numerous other reports of successful usage in Bootcamp albeit with some caveats. Regarding VMs, and this is hardware dependent due to IOMMU groups (and is based on a Linux host), but I also recall cases where this is possible on reddit.com/r/VFIO
ftufek 4y ago
TainwindUI all access bundled with Refactoring UI book for free, pretty good value for engineers looking to get better at design.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  Free? It's 30% off.
  - mpolichette 4y ago
    I read this as “The book is included”
  - ftufek 4y ago
    I think they used to sell the book for 150$, ui for 299$, so yes 30% off the bundle, I looked at it as, free book but with full subscription.
    - dev_0 4y ago
- nagyf 4y ago
  This is actually pretty good, I've just started learning Tailwind, and was going to buy the book. Thanks!
EugeneOZ 4y ago
Create a list of the products you need and try to find deals for this list. Otherwise, there is a huge chance to buy something you don't actually need, just because it's a good deal. Then it will be a good deal for the seller :)
- xz18r 4y ago
  This. I have a "want list" in my notes and have a weekly check on a few retail sites (if it is a retail item) to see if it isn't suddenly in sale. By now I know the prices by heart so if it's a real deal, I'll notice. This also ensures that I don't get impulse charmed on a day like Black Friday, unless it is really significantly cheaper than what it was in the past 6 months.
bilal4hmed 4y ago
Picked up an m1 macbook air for $780 from Microcenter
TheCapn 4y ago
For PC Parts there's usually good links on reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ There's a few regional equivalents as well. I know of r/bapcsalescanada r/bapcsalesuk r/BaPCSalesEurope r/bapcsalesaustralia r/bapcsalesgermany
dev_0 4y ago
Any technical courses do you guys recommend?
- kodisha 4y ago
  Disclaimer: i work at corise.com and am one of the engineers building the platform. If you like: - learning from real industry experts - learning in small cohorts - having live lectures - working on real-world projects each week on order to finish the course Check out corise.com [1] Yearly subscription for unlimited courses is down to $750 from $1000 and you get a single course for free as a gift to someone. [1] https://corise.com?utm_source=HN https://corise.com?utm_source=HN Edit: We also occasionally run 100% free courses for 1000+ students (also broken down in smaller pods), for those you just need to apply by filling out the form: https://corise.com/course/python-for-data-science?utm_source=HN https://corise.com/course/python-for-data-science?utm_source... https://corise.com/course/sql-crash-course?utm_source=HN https://corise.com/course/sql-crash-course?utm_source=HN
- TheAngryCanuck 4y ago
  I've had good results with ACloudGuru and they have a 50% off sale right now. That is a better deal than they had last year. https://acloudguru.com/ https://acloudguru.com/
  - NotATestPilot 4y ago
    +1 for ACloudGuru. I've been a happy customer of theirs when studying for AWS certs.
joaodlf 4y ago
An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK. This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a week, no problem. Drains way quicker when charging my M1, but that one has far less battery issues when compared to my phone. The discount is real, as well. I know because I bought it recently, but you can also check it against camelcamelcamel or keepa.
- namdnay 4y ago
  If anyone is thinking of buying a power bank, I strongly recommend those ones that can also start a car. Way less hassle than jumper cables
  - agentwiggles 4y ago
    Can you give an example of one? It blows my mind that this is possible - I mean not the technology exactly, that makes sense, but just that something reasonably portable that I would carry around in case my phone dies can also have the level of utility of jumping my vehicle in a pinch. The future is pretty cool.
    - shkkmo 4y ago
      The battery packs for jumping cars (at least the ones I've seen) are generally more of a size appropriate for putting in a trunk than a backpack or pocket.
      - marmetio 4y ago
        They put mini jumper cable connectors on the pocket-sized ones now.
      - lm28469 4y ago
        I had one a while ago when road tripping in the US, served me a few times, it won't fit in your average jeans pocket but it easily fits in a jacket, you could fit 20+ in your glovebox https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rP7cR7ffBYrpfZ2Yz7FHdE.jpg https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rP7cR7ffBYrpfZ2Yz7FHdE.jpg https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0096/6764/1402/products/AC56388-HeroBanner_r3-img2_700x.jpg?v=1619711706 https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0096/6764/1402/products/AC...
SanjayMehta 4y ago
PragProg has 40% off with a potential additional 30% off on a future purchase. The coupon code is on their blog.
- jherdman 4y ago
  Hot lead! Thanks for sharing
- jvillasante 4y ago
  Not The Pragmatic Programmer :(
  - SanjayMehta 4y ago
    INR 750/- Who knows, they might ship to your location? The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition your journey to mastery (Indian B&W Edition) https://amzn.eu/d/isce36n https://amzn.eu/d/isce36n
mellosouls 4y ago
Generally I find Black Friday a bit overhyped, the "bargains" are best checked against price history with (say) CamelCamelCamel before you buy. Not Black Friday, but in the UK and maybe other countries, Amazon Warehouse is currently doing a 20% off sale, so 20% off the price when you get to checkout. I've had a few good "As New" things off there in the past, worth having a look. There's also a 50% off books sale on the UK Warehouse, loads of tech books, though I don't know how many decent ones are left. -- Specific Black Friday deals though: Quest Apps on sale: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/1530190134073518/ https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/15301901340...
- NWoodsman 4y ago
  Is it possible to do an API request to find greatest price differential compared to historical price of items with > 1000 reviews?
  - mellosouls 4y ago
    You would think so, I've often wondered similar myself, there's obviously opportunity to increase the chance of finding genuinely good deals but I don't know to what extent Amazon's API and historical data is available generally, these docs look like the relavent ones (eg the pricing section): https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/?ld=ASXXSPAPIDirect_SPAPI-LEGO-home-hero-docs https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/?ld=ASXXSPAPIDirect...
- grammers 4y ago
  Definitely, it doesn't feel right anymore. I like what Tutanota does instead: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/black-friday-hype https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/black-friday-hype I really like their service and their attitude towards Black Friday makes me like them even more.
- Havoc 4y ago
  > Amazon Warehouse is currently doing a 20% off sale, Also...that goes till end Dec. So might make sense to wait for people returning all their BF crap
wrp 4y ago
For those of us old enough to remember when holiday sales really did start on the day after Thanksgiving, in my area, most of the shops started their Black Friday sales on Monday. If you waited until today, you missed out on a lot.
- nagyf 4y ago
  Many things only dropped today. At least in Canada
  - incomingpain 4y ago
    There were a few good ones which started before today but surprising number of good ones only today.
- ProZsolt 4y ago
  Most of the shops in the UK started their sales last Thursday
TexanFeller 4y ago
MBP 14" are $500 off sticker again like they were recently. It's still expensive, but the M1 Pro based laptops really are that good and I'm happy as a pig in poop. M1 Airs are 800 and great for your lower tech relatives.
- JadeNB 4y ago
  > MBP 14" are $500 off sticker again like they were recently. It's still expensive, but the M1 Pro based laptops really are that good and I'm happy as a pig in poop. Where are you finding them? Apple themselves do not seem to have any such discount.
  - TexanFeller 4y ago
    Amazon, this morning at least. edit: checked just now and they're still 20% off.
k099 4y ago
Someone compiled a big list of deals on apps, SaaS software, utilities, books, courses, etc and seems to be taking PRs: https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Mond...
- haunter 4y ago
  $80 software 50% off to take screenshots and that's a deal? Mac app economy is truly crazy. Just mind blowing to me when we have FOSS software like ShareX which pretty much does the same and more https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/
  - ffggffggj 4y ago
    If you think that’s wild, wait until you hear about Dropbox and rsync.
    - haunter 4y ago
      Honestly I understand Dropbox more than a $80 screenshot app
      - nagyf 4y ago
        But it takes not just screenshots. But "beautiful screeshots" Whatever that means
        feet 4y ago
        Retina(tm) screenshots
        layer8 4y ago
        It means it doesn’t work when your screen looks like crap. ;)
    - JadeNB 4y ago
      I always thought that, with Dropbox, you weren't paying so much for the tech as for the storage space. I'm on a free Dropbox plan, which is presumably using essentially the same tech as a paid plan, just with less storage.
asicsp 4y ago
I'm an indie author and my "All books bundle" is $10 (normal price $28) - https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/FestiveOffer https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/FestiveOffer (Topics include Linux CLI tools, regular expressions, Vim and Python) I've also collected deals from other indie creators, publishers, etc on my blog (https://learnbyexample.github.io/programming-deals-2022/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/programming-deals-2022/). Some highlights: * Python books by Michael Driscoll - https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/11/22/python-black-friday-cyber-monday-sales-2022/ https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/11/22/python-black-f... * Python Morsels - https://www.pythonmorsels.com/pricing/ https://www.pythonmorsels.com/pricing/ * Boost Your Django DX - https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/byddx https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/byddx and Speed Up Your Django Tests - https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/suydt https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/suydt * Python, Git, and Pandas courses - https://twitter.com/reuvenmlerner/status/1595402066213601280 https://twitter.com/reuvenmlerner/status/1595402066213601280 * Practical Guide to Technical Blogging - https://bhavaniravi.gumroad.com/l/technical-blogging/WRITELIKEPRO https://bhavaniravi.gumroad.com/l/technical-blogging/WRITELI... * Complete Guide to CSS Flex and Grid - https://shrutibalasa.gumroad.com/l/css-flex-and-grid/BlackFriday22 https://shrutibalasa.gumroad.com/l/css-flex-and-grid/BlackFr... * Explain Ideas Visually - https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1595743978531348480 https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1595743978531348480 * Leanpub Monthly Sale - https://mailchi.mp/leanpub/monthly-sale-2022-november-black-friday https://mailchi.mp/leanpub/monthly-sale-2022-november-black-... * Infosec - https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday
lopkeny12ko 4y ago
AMD slashed the price of the Ryzen 9 series CPUs this week. A 7950X now goes for $550, down from $700. That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or a permanent reduction to be price-competitive with Intel Raptor Lake.
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago
  It's a trap. Notoriously, electronics bought for Black Friday are the worst batch available. You can expect higher error rates and technical issues for CPUs and GPUs bought during BF.
  - AgentOrange1234 4y ago
    Eh? Source?
  - lopkeny12ko 4y ago
    This sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?
    - lnsru 4y ago
      It is a bit conspiratorial. Since everything that’s is being made is shipped immediately and nobody has a warehouse to store bad Black Friday electronics I would take such statements with a grain of salt.
    - chabad360 4y ago
      Not so conspiratorial, I don't know about AMD but companies like Samsung do sell modified SKUs (I believe mainly TVs) with generally worse processor power than their not BF counterparts. A quick Google (or HN even) search should bring up a few articles about this behavior.
      - LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
        They also have store-specific models which may be the issue. All subtly different and generally only the base model is reviewed.
Majestic121 4y ago
Not sure if it's available in other countries, but in France you have Dealabs which allows you to vote on deal and offers a bit like on reddit, allowing the community to highlight the best bargains. It's also used as a commercial device by companies directly nowadays but the good deals there are usually worth checking out. https://www.dealabs.com/ https://www.dealabs.com/
- vulcan01 4y ago
  Slickdeals is the (American?) equivalent https://slickdeals.net/ https://slickdeals.net/ .
- moystard 4y ago
  https://hukd.com https://hukd.com for the UK equivalent.
- Krisjohn 4y ago
  https://ozbargain.com.au/ https://ozbargain.com.au/ for Australia
- addandsubtract 4y ago
  If you scroll down to the very bottom, it tells you it's part of the Pepper platform and you can select the local version from the dropdown menu. I check it out every now and then and have a few alerts set for things.
dont__panic 4y ago
I've gotten two great "deals" this week. The first: I bought "unlimited" worldwide maps from Osmand, which I use a TON for offline maps when I bike. It's $9.99 for unlimited worldwide offline map downloads right now. Great deal if you'd like to move away from Google Maps for navigation (not so great for business search, but it's slowly getting there!) The second: not actually a Black Friday deal, but I recently switched to https://purelymail.com/ https://purelymail.com/ for email. It's a one-man show, significantly cheaper than the competition because... it's not bootstrapping some massive startup or running off VC capital. If you just want IMAP for desktop/mobile for cheap, but can't self-host because Google will throw all of your emails into spam, this is a great option. $10/year or less estimated cost. And it's fully encrypted on their servers, not used for advertising, pretty much exactly what you want if you JUST want mail. Oh, and the Gigabyte M28U 144hz 4k 28" monitor that I use is now down to an all-time-low cost of $450. If you're looking for a beautiful monitor for your home office, this is it.
- nicolaslem 4y ago
  > And it's fully encrypted on their servers. I wish we had better words to describe encryption and the specific tradeoffs of each approach. I did not know purelymail, but knowing IMAP I had a gut feeling that things were a bit more complicated than a blanket "fully encrypted on their servers". Sure enough, reading between the lines of their documentation they can pretty much decrypt any email on an account by just using the password given by the client when connecting to their IMAP server. Since most clients either connect regularly to fetch emails or maintain a long-lived connection to the server, they can pretty much decrypt anything, any time. So it's back to trusting them just like it emails were stored in plain text. I don't want to pick on this small player, I applaud their effort in pushing email forward, but I have enough with companies using encryption to handwave security concerns. A big example of that is Apple iCloud.
  - dont__panic 4y ago
    Well said. In their docs they actually call out this exact issue, and mention that they'd like to improve it in the future, but it would require significant work and that's not necessarily worth it for them. It would be nice to see a lot of competing small-fry players innovating in the email space. In an ideal world, I could just shop around between mail providers with my domain and pick whichever option provides the best price:features ratio for my needs. I was pretty keen on Proton for a while but they're diving deep in the VPN space, and their approach to encryption makes it nearly impossible to use them with simple mail apps like K9 and Apple Mail. Much like the browser space, it's not healthy for Google to run a near-monopoly of email. We need a healthy number of alternatives out there so they can't push consumer unfriendly standards and creep more and more advertising into their email product.
hedora 4y ago
Ambient Weather's weather stations are on sale (20% off some components, and some base stations). That never happens.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
  They're good, too. Accurate and good battery life. I have mine feeding to Ambient Weather, but also a custom API endpoint that feeds the data into a local database, so I can use my own software/scripts to do as I please without having to make external API calls.
- smeej 4y ago
  Sincerely curious question: Why would one want a home weather station? Like, are you growing crops at home? Or just curious about hyper-local weather over time?
  - hedora 4y ago
    Yes, growing crops. The hyper local weather has been drastically different the last few years (dry; redwoods are stressed, etc). Also, there is no vaguely-accurate local weather station for our place (internet services report wind speeds and temps that are routinely off by 20% / 10 degrees F, and rainfall that is off by 5x)
  - saul_goodman 4y ago
    If you garden then you may want to know your actual amount of rainfall to gauge how much watering you need to do. You'd be surprised how much rainfall can actually vary over a small area compared to a regional average. And for people in rural areas that are not near other weather sensors, or areas that may not have regular internet connectivity or frequent outages (and coastal areas subject to storms and high winds). And of course weather nerds and sensor nerds, because those MQTT databases won't fill themselves.
    - rapjr9 4y ago
      Also if you get a good enough weather station you can feed the data to NOAA and improve the accuracy of your local forecasts.
wy35 4y ago
rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed.
- JadeNB 4y ago
  > rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed. Where? I found it listed on the rOtring site (https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP_1904447.html https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP...), but they don't clearly give any option to buy that I can see.
  - tjfl 4y ago
    I couldn't find an option to buy directly from them, either. It's $21.29 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZWNS84/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZWNS84/
    - wy35 4y ago
      Yeah, on Amazon. Whoops, forgot to specify.
- timothevs 4y ago
  I am addicted to Rotring pencils. I already have more than I will use in a lifetime (56). I have taken to gifting them to my loved ones. I am not sure all appreciate the quality, and the longevity of these pencils, but for those who do, this is a gift greatly appreciated. That said, I was unable to resist myself and bought four to gift to my direct reports this holiday season, so, thank you OP!
JustSomePackets 4y ago
Proton Unlimited (ProtonMail, Drive, VPN, Calendar) is 40% off the two year plan (172.56 €) or 35% off the 1 year plan (93.48 €). Good for those who like the service.
brunobrito 4y ago
Some apps I really like are on sale. Here are some suggestions: Web Development: - ProxyMan - https://proxyman.io/ https://proxyman.io/ — web debugging proxy (30% off the first year) - Tower - https://www.git-tower.com/ https://www.git-tower.com/ — powerful Git Client (50% off the first year) - DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools (50% off) For overall productivity: - BetterTouchTool - https://folivora.ai/ https://folivora.ai/ — customize input devices (50% off) - Trickster - https://www.apparentsoft.com/trickster https://www.apparentsoft.com/trickster — handy to access recent files (50% off) For images/screen capturing: - Affinity Suite - https://affinity.serif.com/ https://affinity.serif.com/ — (40% off for the Universal License) A great alternative to Adobe's suite. Version 2 is fresh from the oven. Affinity Photo = Photoshop, Affinity Designer = Illustrator, Affinity Publisher = InDesign. The Universal License includes Mac, Windows, and iPadOS apps. - Xnapper - https://xnapper.com https://xnapper.com — Screenshot tool (50% off) - ScreenFlow - https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm — Screencast tool (20% off)
- grayprog 4y ago
  Trickster is something I use every day, many times a day. ScreenFlow is great for screencasts. Would like to add a few other Mac apps that I like: DEVONthink — https://devontechnologies.com https://devontechnologies.com — is a fantastic Mac app for organizing documents. It's a desktop Evernote replacement for me. (25% off) Cashculator - https://cashculator.app https://cashculator.app - Personal finance with a focus on planning and "what-if" scenarios. Like a spreadsheet. (50%, no subscription).
- throwaway290 4y ago
  Worth noting Affinity is a strictly one-time purchase valid forever (or while their licensing servers are up) while offering functionality on par with Adobe. I got their v2 suite at discount.
- nop_slide 4y ago
  +1 for DevUtils
RyanShook 4y ago
This ASUS Chromebook for $80 on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AK6oDD https://amzn.to/3AK6oDD
- hirundo 4y ago
  You can now buy three new laptops for the price of a Raspberry Pi 4 kit.
- itronitron 4y ago
  can Ubuntu be installed on a (former) chromebook?
  - hedora 4y ago
    I've had good luck with Acer Aspire windows laptops. They're basically Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and are in the $100-$500 range. Keyboards and trackpads are generally tolerable (so, 75th percentile or so). I wish they'd make windows ARM laptops with less locked down (than Chromebook) BIOSes (that would also run Linux), but windows on arm is perpetually non-viable. The pine book pro is also a decent choice for a cheap Linux laptop.
  - toast0 4y ago
    Check the model on https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/ but I'm not sure if you'll have good luck with an Arm based chromebook.
- doubled112 4y ago
  Ahh, the Canada tax. $153 + $34 to ship on Amazon.com $312.07 + $5.54 shipping on Amazon.ca
gexaha 4y ago
I'm developing microtonal algorithmic music, leaning towards chiptune sound, and for sounds/timbres/instruments I found the Plogue synthesisers to be the best - https://www.plogue.com/index.html https://www.plogue.com/index.html - they have 3 great FM-synthesizers/emulators of Yamaha chips: OPL2, OPN from megadrive, and DX7. Bought 2 of them on this black friday.
thinkloop 4y ago
How Black Friday works: Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on Black Friday. So are there "deals" on Black Friday? Not really, in the sense that you are buying a product that is of truly lower value. At the same time, many people don't care about the newness of various products, so are happy to trade that time for money in their pocket. In short, Black Friday is about segmentation than it is "deals". It's a way to charge the most eager top dollar at the beginning of the curve, while also cashing in later with the rest at the end of the product lifecycle. Thank you.
- nagyf 4y ago
  Thanks. So do you know any great deals for today?
  - thinkloop 4y ago
    :D That question is not really answerable, it only depends on what mid-cycle products you're interested in and how much oldness you are willing to tolerate.
  - utopcell 4y ago
    :-)
- hiq 4y ago
  Not only that, but at least some companies just increase the prices slowly before Black Friday, such that what is shown as a discount on Black Friday is not really one. You might end up paying less 3 months after.
- healsdata 4y ago
  Certainly true for larger retailers, but there's plenty of small and independent businesses that offer true discounts today. For example, many artists that sell enamel pins keep them at the same price forever. So a discount today is a true discount. Beyond that, you can also look for any retailer selling gift cards at a discount. Given that gift cards spend at their face value, you know for certain the discount is a real discount.
rikkipitt 4y ago
I'm offering 25% off all plans for https://www.paced.email https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email https://www.vend.email with BF2022. Not really had much success with BF/CM in the past, but alas, I'll try again this year now the products are in more solid positions.
TheCapeGreek 4y ago
The best deals are usually in software. For physical goods, find a price tracker. That being said, I grabbed a lifetime Laracasts subscription for $219 - about 2 years of the ordinary yearly price ($99, on sale at $54). Great resource for new & rusty Laravel developers.
trifon_tsvetkov 4y ago
We're doing 50% off CodeInterview Pro (coding interview tool). So $24.50/m instead of $49/m for new customers. Link: https://codeinterview.io/pricing https://codeinterview.io/pricing Coupon code: BLACKFRIDAY2022
dceddia 4y ago
I'm doing a 50% off sale for my app Recut, https://getrecut.com https://getrecut.com It's a simplified video editor that removes pauses and dead air, and creates a cut list you can then import into a "real" editor. Saves a bunch of time if you're doing talking-head videos, vlogging, podcasts, screencasts... the sorts of content where the first step of editing is to chop out the long pauses and mistakes. I originally built it because I was doing screencasts and wanted the process to go faster :D
- camtarn 4y ago
  Ooh, that's a great app idea! I hate having to do this in my own videos - it takes so long.
- browningstreet 4y ago
  Hope you don’t mind the Q: does Camtasia support the export format for cuts..? Thanks.
  - dceddia 4y ago
    Not right now, no. As far as I know Camtasia can't import XML, so I need to export something in their own format. It's on my list of export formats to add.
- austinpena 4y ago
  Do you find that people use the “remind me on my computer” feature? I like it
  - dceddia 4y ago
    It brings in a handful of signups, not as many as I thought it would. Plus the occasional comment about how people like it :)
    - austinpena 4y ago
      Makes sense! And by the way thanks for teaching me React two years back, your course was the only thing that made sense to me.
notacoward 4y ago
I put off buying a new gaming laptop for my daughter until I could find one with decent specs for under US$1000. I'd check every week or so. Finally, thanks to Black Friday, I found two yesterday that had just crept under. Asus TUF F15 at B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1702433-REG/asus_fx507zm_bs74_tuf_i7_12700h_16gb_1tb.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1702433-REG/asus_fx50... Acer Predator Helios at Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-predator-helios-300-15-6-fhd-165hz-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-ddr5-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-512gb-ssd/6504563.p?skuId=6504563 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-predator-helios-300-15-6-f... They're really almost identical; I ended up buying the TUF (which has since gone up but only by $20) because it had a larger SSD. I'm sure somebody else can do better - please comment here if you do! - but this seems to set a pretty good benchmark.
- gavinray 4y ago
  I owned the previous generation of the Asus TUF, the A15, along with my wife, and can recommend it. My experience with these low-end gaming laptops is that the screens are low quality. You might buy her an external monitor and a wireless keyboard + mouse so she can use it in clamshell mode. But those are fantastic deals -- kind of jealous actually. Last year I paid ~$1,400 on Black Friday for an MSI GE76 Raider 11UE that has these specs: > 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 17.3" FHD 144 Hz, i7-11800H (11th Gen), RTX 3060 Computing advances at insane paces.
throwaway290 4y ago
Every Layout. Not directly for specific solutions and components but more to get inspired from them and from latest CSS capabilities they use (seeing them in action beats reading specs). Updates for life are promised.
shaprack 4y ago
Here's the list of Top Amazon Black Friday deals which are currently active - https://thegadgetlite.com/2022/11/amazon-black-friday-deals-usa/ https://thegadgetlite.com/2022/11/amazon-black-friday-deals-...
- gnicholas 4y ago
  FYI, they don't list prices here and have incorrect photos for at least some items (Apple Watch 8 shows an image of an AWU).
  - shaprack 4y ago
    Thanks for the information, I saw it too, but what I like about them is that they are constantly refreshing it with new offers.
KronisLV 4y ago
The VPS provider that I use, Time4VPS has some pretty nice discounts until the 28th of November: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link) Another already affordable VPS provider, Contabo, also seems to have nice deals: https://contabo.com/en/ https://contabo.com/en/ (they expire in an hour at the time of writing) The Namecheap domain registrar that also offers e-mail and other stuff has some ongoing deals: https://www.namecheap.com/domain-web-hosting-ssl-deals/black-friday/ https://www.namecheap.com/domain-web-hosting-ssl-deals/black...
byteflip 4y ago
I picked up some discounts on recurring software/app subscriptions I use: Fitbod Elite - Workout tracking/planning - 40% off - 47.99 annually - I was paying 12.99$ a month!!! Plex Pass Lifetime - 25% off - 90$ once - Regular $120 I have used YNAB for budgeting for years. I wish I could find a discount on that. Still keeping an eye out for any other similarly useful deals on stuff I already pay for.
Paul_Grsl 4y ago
AI GENERATION TOOLS Thundercontent AI Writer (140+ languages, 20+ tools, based on GPT-3) : $7/ month (usually $49/month) -- https://thundercontent.com https://thundercontent.com Article.Audio (Convert articles to audio with AI): $39 Lifetime deal (usually $19/month) -- https://article.audio https://article.audio
iamcomedy 4y ago
- Copylime - https://copylime.com https://copylime.com is an amazing AI writing tool that I personally had the chance to use. It can help you write anything: from a cold email to a Facebook Ad to a blog post... It has super affordable and generous Black Friday deals: -> One-time $6.99 for 200 credits -> One-time $11.99 for 300 credits + 25 FREE -> One time $16.99 450 credits + 50 FREE
bnzr 4y ago
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ScottWRobinson 4y ago
We're running a deal for 38% off ($99 vs $159) for a yearly membership to StackAbuse.com. We have a number of data visualization courses, guided projects, and a pretty extensive course on Deep Learning for Computer Vision. https://stackabuse.com/ https://stackabuse.com/
mlu509 4y ago
- 50% off https://medium.com https://medium.com yearly subscription - 20% off https://getimg.ai https://getimg.ai (text-to-image and AI editor) monthly subscription for 3 months
nelsonfigueroa 4y ago
Little Snitch is 50% off right now. It's an application firewall for MacOS. - https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
powersnail 4y ago
San Francisco Symphony has a 50% off for all seats, which is pretty sweet if you listen to classical music.
- fmajid 4y ago
  Sadly Michael Tilson Thomas has retired in March due to being afflicted by brain cancer (glioblastoma). I lost my aunt to that horrible, atrocious disease, and wish him the best. Apparently there still are some performances of his scheduled in January.
georgewsinger 4y ago
SimulaVR (https://simulavr.com https://simulavr.com) is offering a $100 discount to Hacker News preorderers: use the code "DISCOUNT_HN" at checkout.
MopMop 4y ago
'Black Friday' - Another consumer's day in the year when everything gets marked up so you can have your discount.
- spoils19 4y ago
  Maybe for you. Myself and my colleagues have found good deals where things aren't marked up - your experience is hardly the standard, and it's quite rude to imply that it is.
makeee 4y ago
My React codebase generator is 40% off for the next few days: https://divjoy.com https://divjoy.com
schwartzworld 4y ago
Dynavap has some pretty killer specials. Buy one get one on their B model!
Dimoff 4y ago
- Easy-Peasy.AI - https://easy-peasy.ai https://easy-peasy.ai - AI content assistant, 40% off - Laracasts - https://laracasts.com https://laracasts.com - Screencasts for modern developer, 45% off - DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools, 50% off
amboo7 4y ago
DxO https://www.dxo.com/fr/ https://www.dxo.com/fr/ 50% off https://www.dxo.com/en/ https://www.dxo.com/en/
dewstack 4y ago
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longnguyen 4y ago
I'm doing a 50% off (first year) for my SaaS KTool, https://ktool.io https://ktool.io It allows you to send multiple types of content to your Kindle: Reddit posts, Hacker News discussions, Twitter threads & newsletters. It supports multiple file types too: PDF, DOCX, markdown etc.
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ioblomov 4y ago
These Apple deals are good till Monday... https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/deals/apple-black-friday-deals-2022 https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/deals/apple-black-friday...
Riphyak 4y ago
We put together a bundle, mostly engineering soft: https://resources.youteam.io/bfcm-bundle-deals-youteam https://resources.youteam.io/bfcm-bundle-deals-youteam

122 points by nagyf 4y ago

Do you know any good black Friday deals for tech stuff?

Sony WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones for $228 (normally $350) at pretty much every store (Sony, Amazon, Best Buy, etc). Just got them and they are great but I never had wireless headphones. They do take 10-20 seconds to connect to my iPad, but that might be because they are also set up with my phone. I considered the newer version but the reviews made it seem like it wasn't a huge upgrade and in some ways a downgrade, like the newer version doesn't fold to a smaller size.

chrizel 4y ago
I have the newer XM5s. The main reason for me to go with them instead of the cheaper XM4s was the call quality. I use my headphones very often in conference calls and the XM5s have excellent microphones compared to their predecessors. Side note: before, I have tested the Bose QC45 but those microphones are absolutely garbage. Sad, because the QC35 microphones were good. I don’t mind that the XM5s don’t fold anymore. In a way I like the new design better compared to my wife’s XM3s.
brookside 4y ago
"Used - Good" Sony WH-1000XM4 on Amazon seems to have an additional discount when get to checkout. I just picked up a pair for $148.26
- d3nj4l 4y ago
  Careful buying used stuff off Amazon. I've received duds more often than not. It's patently obvious that Amazon doesn't actually do any QA/checking of stuff they sell as "used" - I bought a pair of headphones once where one of the ears was simply not working, something that any tester would catch immediately. The lower price is not worth the hassle of having to return if it doesn't work.

LorenDB 4y ago

Razer Huntsman Elite is at $120 instead of $200.

dont__panic 4y ago
Adding to this: ~30% off Keychron keyboards (https://www.keychron.com/pages/bfcm-2022 https://www.keychron.com/pages/bfcm-2022) for those who've been burned by Razer peripheral drivers before. I love my keychron, if you use a Mac I think it's the nicest mech keyboard out there since they offer versions with a proper mac CMD ctrl-opt-cmd layout.
gberger 4y ago
That is a keyboard, for anyone curious.

SirGiggles 4y ago

Bought myself a Razer Core X (Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure) for CAD$109.99 a few days ago. Was a discount of 71% off from an original price of CAD$389.99. Not sure if the US site reflects the same kinds of savings. https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-01310100-R3U1 https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-0...

cholantesh 4y ago
What's the use case for a device like this? E: Thanks for all the replies. I have a XPS 15 that was, maybe 5 years ago occasionally reliable for playing Doom 2014 at 1080p for half an hour before the gpu would shut itself down, maybe I could have benefited from one of these + a desktop GPU...
- amerine 4y ago
  Adding a GPU to a Mac, or anything with TB3 really.
  - Firmwarrior 4y ago
    Keep in mind it won't work on Apple Silicon Macs though, and I think Intel Macs have limited support for nvidia cards in macOS
    - jbverschoor 4y ago
      Hardwarewise or just macos? What if you want to add the GPU to a windows/linux VM?
      - SirGiggles 4y ago
        To my understanding, it's just a lack of support from both macOS and third-party vendors. There are numerous other reports of successful usage in Bootcamp albeit with some caveats. Regarding VMs, and this is hardware dependent due to IOMMU groups (and is based on a Linux host), but I also recall cases where this is possible on reddit.com/r/VFIO

ftufek 4y ago

TainwindUI all access bundled with Refactoring UI book for free, pretty good value for engineers looking to get better at design.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
Free? It's 30% off.
- mpolichette 4y ago
  I read this as “The book is included”
- ftufek 4y ago
  I think they used to sell the book for 150$, ui for 299$, so yes 30% off the bundle, I looked at it as, free book but with full subscription.
  - dev_0 4y ago
nagyf 4y ago
This is actually pretty good, I've just started learning Tailwind, and was going to buy the book. Thanks!

EugeneOZ 4y ago

Create a list of the products you need and try to find deals for this list. Otherwise, there is a huge chance to buy something you don't actually need, just because it's a good deal. Then it will be a good deal for the seller :)

xz18r 4y ago
This. I have a "want list" in my notes and have a weekly check on a few retail sites (if it is a retail item) to see if it isn't suddenly in sale. By now I know the prices by heart so if it's a real deal, I'll notice. This also ensures that I don't get impulse charmed on a day like Black Friday, unless it is really significantly cheaper than what it was in the past 6 months.

bilal4hmed 4y ago

Picked up an m1 macbook air for $780 from Microcenter

TheCapn 4y ago

For PC Parts there's usually good links on reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ There's a few regional equivalents as well. I know of r/bapcsalescanada r/bapcsalesuk r/BaPCSalesEurope r/bapcsalesaustralia r/bapcsalesgermany

dev_0 4y ago

Any technical courses do you guys recommend?

kodisha 4y ago
Disclaimer: i work at corise.com and am one of the engineers building the platform. If you like: - learning from real industry experts - learning in small cohorts - having live lectures - working on real-world projects each week on order to finish the course Check out corise.com [1] Yearly subscription for unlimited courses is down to $750 from $1000 and you get a single course for free as a gift to someone. [1] https://corise.com?utm_source=HN https://corise.com?utm_source=HN Edit: We also occasionally run 100% free courses for 1000+ students (also broken down in smaller pods), for those you just need to apply by filling out the form: https://corise.com/course/python-for-data-science?utm_source=HN https://corise.com/course/python-for-data-science?utm_source... https://corise.com/course/sql-crash-course?utm_source=HN https://corise.com/course/sql-crash-course?utm_source=HN
TheAngryCanuck 4y ago
I've had good results with ACloudGuru and they have a 50% off sale right now. That is a better deal than they had last year. https://acloudguru.com/ https://acloudguru.com/
- NotATestPilot 4y ago
  +1 for ACloudGuru. I've been a happy customer of theirs when studying for AWS certs.

joaodlf 4y ago

An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK. This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a week, no problem. Drains way quicker when charging my M1, but that one has far less battery issues when compared to my phone. The discount is real, as well. I know because I bought it recently, but you can also check it against camelcamelcamel or keepa.

namdnay 4y ago
If anyone is thinking of buying a power bank, I strongly recommend those ones that can also start a car. Way less hassle than jumper cables
- agentwiggles 4y ago
  Can you give an example of one? It blows my mind that this is possible - I mean not the technology exactly, that makes sense, but just that something reasonably portable that I would carry around in case my phone dies can also have the level of utility of jumping my vehicle in a pinch. The future is pretty cool.
  - shkkmo 4y ago
    The battery packs for jumping cars (at least the ones I've seen) are generally more of a size appropriate for putting in a trunk than a backpack or pocket.
    - marmetio 4y ago
      They put mini jumper cable connectors on the pocket-sized ones now.
    - lm28469 4y ago
      I had one a while ago when road tripping in the US, served me a few times, it won't fit in your average jeans pocket but it easily fits in a jacket, you could fit 20+ in your glovebox https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rP7cR7ffBYrpfZ2Yz7FHdE.jpg https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rP7cR7ffBYrpfZ2Yz7FHdE.jpg https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0096/6764/1402/products/AC56388-HeroBanner_r3-img2_700x.jpg?v=1619711706 https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0096/6764/1402/products/AC...

SanjayMehta 4y ago

PragProg has 40% off with a potential additional 30% off on a future purchase. The coupon code is on their blog.

jherdman 4y ago
Hot lead! Thanks for sharing
jvillasante 4y ago
Not The Pragmatic Programmer :(
- SanjayMehta 4y ago
  INR 750/- Who knows, they might ship to your location? The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition your journey to mastery (Indian B&W Edition) https://amzn.eu/d/isce36n https://amzn.eu/d/isce36n

mellosouls 4y ago

Generally I find Black Friday a bit overhyped, the "bargains" are best checked against price history with (say) CamelCamelCamel before you buy. Not Black Friday, but in the UK and maybe other countries, Amazon Warehouse is currently doing a 20% off sale, so 20% off the price when you get to checkout. I've had a few good "As New" things off there in the past, worth having a look. There's also a 50% off books sale on the UK Warehouse, loads of tech books, though I don't know how many decent ones are left. -- Specific Black Friday deals though: Quest Apps on sale: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/1530190134073518/ https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/15301901340...

NWoodsman 4y ago
Is it possible to do an API request to find greatest price differential compared to historical price of items with > 1000 reviews?
- mellosouls 4y ago
  You would think so, I've often wondered similar myself, there's obviously opportunity to increase the chance of finding genuinely good deals but I don't know to what extent Amazon's API and historical data is available generally, these docs look like the relavent ones (eg the pricing section): https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/?ld=ASXXSPAPIDirect_SPAPI-LEGO-home-hero-docs https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/?ld=ASXXSPAPIDirect...
grammers 4y ago
Definitely, it doesn't feel right anymore. I like what Tutanota does instead: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/black-friday-hype https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/black-friday-hype I really like their service and their attitude towards Black Friday makes me like them even more.
Havoc 4y ago
> Amazon Warehouse is currently doing a 20% off sale, Also...that goes till end Dec. So might make sense to wait for people returning all their BF crap

wrp 4y ago

For those of us old enough to remember when holiday sales really did start on the day after Thanksgiving, in my area, most of the shops started their Black Friday sales on Monday. If you waited until today, you missed out on a lot.

nagyf 4y ago
Many things only dropped today. At least in Canada
- incomingpain 4y ago
  There were a few good ones which started before today but surprising number of good ones only today.
ProZsolt 4y ago
Most of the shops in the UK started their sales last Thursday

TexanFeller 4y ago

MBP 14" are $500 off sticker again like they were recently. It's still expensive, but the M1 Pro based laptops really are that good and I'm happy as a pig in poop. M1 Airs are 800 and great for your lower tech relatives.

JadeNB 4y ago
> MBP 14" are $500 off sticker again like they were recently. It's still expensive, but the M1 Pro based laptops really are that good and I'm happy as a pig in poop. Where are you finding them? Apple themselves do not seem to have any such discount.
- TexanFeller 4y ago
  Amazon, this morning at least. edit: checked just now and they're still 20% off.

k099 4y ago

Someone compiled a big list of deals on apps, SaaS software, utilities, books, courses, etc and seems to be taking PRs: https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Monday https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Mond...

haunter 4y ago
$80 software 50% off to take screenshots and that's a deal? Mac app economy is truly crazy. Just mind blowing to me when we have FOSS software like ShareX which pretty much does the same and more https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/
- ffggffggj 4y ago
  If you think that’s wild, wait until you hear about Dropbox and rsync.
  - haunter 4y ago
    Honestly I understand Dropbox more than a $80 screenshot app
    - nagyf 4y ago
      But it takes not just screenshots. But "beautiful screeshots" Whatever that means
      - feet 4y ago
        Retina(tm) screenshots
      - layer8 4y ago
        It means it doesn’t work when your screen looks like crap. ;)
  - JadeNB 4y ago
    I always thought that, with Dropbox, you weren't paying so much for the tech as for the storage space. I'm on a free Dropbox plan, which is presumably using essentially the same tech as a paid plan, just with less storage.

asicsp 4y ago

I'm an indie author and my "All books bundle" is $10 (normal price $28) - https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/FestiveOffer https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/FestiveOffer (Topics include Linux CLI tools, regular expressions, Vim and Python) I've also collected deals from other indie creators, publishers, etc on my blog (https://learnbyexample.github.io/programming-deals-2022/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/programming-deals-2022/). Some highlights: * Python books by Michael Driscoll - https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/11/22/python-black-friday-cyber-monday-sales-2022/ https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2022/11/22/python-black-f... * Python Morsels - https://www.pythonmorsels.com/pricing/ https://www.pythonmorsels.com/pricing/ * Boost Your Django DX - https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/byddx https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/byddx and Speed Up Your Django Tests - https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/suydt https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/suydt * Python, Git, and Pandas courses - https://twitter.com/reuvenmlerner/status/1595402066213601280 https://twitter.com/reuvenmlerner/status/1595402066213601280 * Practical Guide to Technical Blogging - https://bhavaniravi.gumroad.com/l/technical-blogging/WRITELIKEPRO https://bhavaniravi.gumroad.com/l/technical-blogging/WRITELI... * Complete Guide to CSS Flex and Grid - https://shrutibalasa.gumroad.com/l/css-flex-and-grid/BlackFriday22 https://shrutibalasa.gumroad.com/l/css-flex-and-grid/BlackFr... * Explain Ideas Visually - https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1595743978531348480 https://twitter.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1595743978531348480 * Leanpub Monthly Sale - https://mailchi.mp/leanpub/monthly-sale-2022-november-black-friday https://mailchi.mp/leanpub/monthly-sale-2022-november-black-... * Infosec - https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday

lopkeny12ko 4y ago

AMD slashed the price of the Ryzen 9 series CPUs this week. A 7950X now goes for $550, down from $700. That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or a permanent reduction to be price-competitive with Intel Raptor Lake.

simonebrunozzi 4y ago
It's a trap. Notoriously, electronics bought for Black Friday are the worst batch available. You can expect higher error rates and technical issues for CPUs and GPUs bought during BF.
- AgentOrange1234 4y ago
  Eh? Source?
- lopkeny12ko 4y ago
  This sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?
  - lnsru 4y ago
    It is a bit conspiratorial. Since everything that’s is being made is shipped immediately and nobody has a warehouse to store bad Black Friday electronics I would take such statements with a grain of salt.
  - chabad360 4y ago
    Not so conspiratorial, I don't know about AMD but companies like Samsung do sell modified SKUs (I believe mainly TVs) with generally worse processor power than their not BF counterparts. A quick Google (or HN even) search should bring up a few articles about this behavior.
    - LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
      They also have store-specific models which may be the issue. All subtly different and generally only the base model is reviewed.

Majestic121 4y ago

Not sure if it's available in other countries, but in France you have Dealabs which allows you to vote on deal and offers a bit like on reddit, allowing the community to highlight the best bargains. It's also used as a commercial device by companies directly nowadays but the good deals there are usually worth checking out. https://www.dealabs.com/ https://www.dealabs.com/

vulcan01 4y ago
Slickdeals is the (American?) equivalent https://slickdeals.net/ https://slickdeals.net/ .
moystard 4y ago
https://hukd.com https://hukd.com for the UK equivalent.
Krisjohn 4y ago
https://ozbargain.com.au/ https://ozbargain.com.au/ for Australia
addandsubtract 4y ago
If you scroll down to the very bottom, it tells you it's part of the Pepper platform and you can select the local version from the dropdown menu. I check it out every now and then and have a few alerts set for things.

dont__panic 4y ago

I've gotten two great "deals" this week. The first: I bought "unlimited" worldwide maps from Osmand, which I use a TON for offline maps when I bike. It's $9.99 for unlimited worldwide offline map downloads right now. Great deal if you'd like to move away from Google Maps for navigation (not so great for business search, but it's slowly getting there!) The second: not actually a Black Friday deal, but I recently switched to https://purelymail.com/ https://purelymail.com/ for email. It's a one-man show, significantly cheaper than the competition because... it's not bootstrapping some massive startup or running off VC capital. If you just want IMAP for desktop/mobile for cheap, but can't self-host because Google will throw all of your emails into spam, this is a great option. $10/year or less estimated cost. And it's fully encrypted on their servers, not used for advertising, pretty much exactly what you want if you JUST want mail. Oh, and the Gigabyte M28U 144hz 4k 28" monitor that I use is now down to an all-time-low cost of $450. If you're looking for a beautiful monitor for your home office, this is it.

nicolaslem 4y ago
> And it's fully encrypted on their servers. I wish we had better words to describe encryption and the specific tradeoffs of each approach. I did not know purelymail, but knowing IMAP I had a gut feeling that things were a bit more complicated than a blanket "fully encrypted on their servers". Sure enough, reading between the lines of their documentation they can pretty much decrypt any email on an account by just using the password given by the client when connecting to their IMAP server. Since most clients either connect regularly to fetch emails or maintain a long-lived connection to the server, they can pretty much decrypt anything, any time. So it's back to trusting them just like it emails were stored in plain text. I don't want to pick on this small player, I applaud their effort in pushing email forward, but I have enough with companies using encryption to handwave security concerns. A big example of that is Apple iCloud.
- dont__panic 4y ago
  Well said. In their docs they actually call out this exact issue, and mention that they'd like to improve it in the future, but it would require significant work and that's not necessarily worth it for them. It would be nice to see a lot of competing small-fry players innovating in the email space. In an ideal world, I could just shop around between mail providers with my domain and pick whichever option provides the best price:features ratio for my needs. I was pretty keen on Proton for a while but they're diving deep in the VPN space, and their approach to encryption makes it nearly impossible to use them with simple mail apps like K9 and Apple Mail. Much like the browser space, it's not healthy for Google to run a near-monopoly of email. We need a healthy number of alternatives out there so they can't push consumer unfriendly standards and creep more and more advertising into their email product.

hedora 4y ago

Ambient Weather's weather stations are on sale (20% off some components, and some base stations). That never happens.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
They're good, too. Accurate and good battery life. I have mine feeding to Ambient Weather, but also a custom API endpoint that feeds the data into a local database, so I can use my own software/scripts to do as I please without having to make external API calls.
smeej 4y ago
Sincerely curious question: Why would one want a home weather station? Like, are you growing crops at home? Or just curious about hyper-local weather over time?
- hedora 4y ago
  Yes, growing crops. The hyper local weather has been drastically different the last few years (dry; redwoods are stressed, etc). Also, there is no vaguely-accurate local weather station for our place (internet services report wind speeds and temps that are routinely off by 20% / 10 degrees F, and rainfall that is off by 5x)
- saul_goodman 4y ago
  If you garden then you may want to know your actual amount of rainfall to gauge how much watering you need to do. You'd be surprised how much rainfall can actually vary over a small area compared to a regional average. And for people in rural areas that are not near other weather sensors, or areas that may not have regular internet connectivity or frequent outages (and coastal areas subject to storms and high winds). And of course weather nerds and sensor nerds, because those MQTT databases won't fill themselves.
  - rapjr9 4y ago
    Also if you get a good enough weather station you can feed the data to NOAA and improve the accuracy of your local forecasts.

wy35 4y ago

rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed.

JadeNB 4y ago
> rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed. Where? I found it listed on the rOtring site (https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP_1904447.html https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP...), but they don't clearly give any option to buy that I can see.
- tjfl 4y ago
  I couldn't find an option to buy directly from them, either. It's $21.29 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZWNS84/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZWNS84/
  - wy35 4y ago
    Yeah, on Amazon. Whoops, forgot to specify.
timothevs 4y ago
I am addicted to Rotring pencils. I already have more than I will use in a lifetime (56). I have taken to gifting them to my loved ones. I am not sure all appreciate the quality, and the longevity of these pencils, but for those who do, this is a gift greatly appreciated. That said, I was unable to resist myself and bought four to gift to my direct reports this holiday season, so, thank you OP!

JustSomePackets 4y ago

Proton Unlimited (ProtonMail, Drive, VPN, Calendar) is 40% off the two year plan (172.56 €) or 35% off the 1 year plan (93.48 €). Good for those who like the service.

brunobrito 4y ago

Some apps I really like are on sale. Here are some suggestions: Web Development: - ProxyMan - https://proxyman.io/ https://proxyman.io/ — web debugging proxy (30% off the first year) - Tower - https://www.git-tower.com/ https://www.git-tower.com/ — powerful Git Client (50% off the first year) - DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools (50% off) For overall productivity: - BetterTouchTool - https://folivora.ai/ https://folivora.ai/ — customize input devices (50% off) - Trickster - https://www.apparentsoft.com/trickster https://www.apparentsoft.com/trickster — handy to access recent files (50% off) For images/screen capturing: - Affinity Suite - https://affinity.serif.com/ https://affinity.serif.com/ — (40% off for the Universal License) A great alternative to Adobe's suite. Version 2 is fresh from the oven. Affinity Photo = Photoshop, Affinity Designer = Illustrator, Affinity Publisher = InDesign. The Universal License includes Mac, Windows, and iPadOS apps. - Xnapper - https://xnapper.com https://xnapper.com — Screenshot tool (50% off) - ScreenFlow - https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm — Screencast tool (20% off)

grayprog 4y ago
Trickster is something I use every day, many times a day. ScreenFlow is great for screencasts. Would like to add a few other Mac apps that I like: DEVONthink — https://devontechnologies.com https://devontechnologies.com — is a fantastic Mac app for organizing documents. It's a desktop Evernote replacement for me. (25% off) Cashculator - https://cashculator.app https://cashculator.app - Personal finance with a focus on planning and "what-if" scenarios. Like a spreadsheet. (50%, no subscription).
throwaway290 4y ago
Worth noting Affinity is a strictly one-time purchase valid forever (or while their licensing servers are up) while offering functionality on par with Adobe. I got their v2 suite at discount.
nop_slide 4y ago
+1 for DevUtils

RyanShook 4y ago

This ASUS Chromebook for $80 on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3AK6oDD https://amzn.to/3AK6oDD

hirundo 4y ago
You can now buy three new laptops for the price of a Raspberry Pi 4 kit.
itronitron 4y ago
can Ubuntu be installed on a (former) chromebook?
- hedora 4y ago
  I've had good luck with Acer Aspire windows laptops. They're basically Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and are in the $100-$500 range. Keyboards and trackpads are generally tolerable (so, 75th percentile or so). I wish they'd make windows ARM laptops with less locked down (than Chromebook) BIOSes (that would also run Linux), but windows on arm is perpetually non-viable. The pine book pro is also a decent choice for a cheap Linux laptop.
- toast0 4y ago
  Check the model on https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/ but I'm not sure if you'll have good luck with an Arm based chromebook.
doubled112 4y ago
Ahh, the Canada tax. $153 + $34 to ship on Amazon.com $312.07 + $5.54 shipping on Amazon.ca

gexaha 4y ago

I'm developing microtonal algorithmic music, leaning towards chiptune sound, and for sounds/timbres/instruments I found the Plogue synthesisers to be the best - https://www.plogue.com/index.html https://www.plogue.com/index.html - they have 3 great FM-synthesizers/emulators of Yamaha chips: OPL2, OPN from megadrive, and DX7. Bought 2 of them on this black friday.

thinkloop 4y ago

How Black Friday works: Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on Black Friday. So are there "deals" on Black Friday? Not really, in the sense that you are buying a product that is of truly lower value. At the same time, many people don't care about the newness of various products, so are happy to trade that time for money in their pocket. In short, Black Friday is about segmentation than it is "deals". It's a way to charge the most eager top dollar at the beginning of the curve, while also cashing in later with the rest at the end of the product lifecycle. Thank you.

nagyf 4y ago
Thanks. So do you know any great deals for today?
- thinkloop 4y ago
  :D That question is not really answerable, it only depends on what mid-cycle products you're interested in and how much oldness you are willing to tolerate.
- utopcell 4y ago
  :-)
hiq 4y ago
Not only that, but at least some companies just increase the prices slowly before Black Friday, such that what is shown as a discount on Black Friday is not really one. You might end up paying less 3 months after.
healsdata 4y ago
Certainly true for larger retailers, but there's plenty of small and independent businesses that offer true discounts today. For example, many artists that sell enamel pins keep them at the same price forever. So a discount today is a true discount. Beyond that, you can also look for any retailer selling gift cards at a discount. Given that gift cards spend at their face value, you know for certain the discount is a real discount.

rikkipitt 4y ago

I'm offering 25% off all plans for https://www.paced.email https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email https://www.vend.email with BF2022. Not really had much success with BF/CM in the past, but alas, I'll try again this year now the products are in more solid positions.

TheCapeGreek 4y ago

The best deals are usually in software. For physical goods, find a price tracker. That being said, I grabbed a lifetime Laracasts subscription for $219 - about 2 years of the ordinary yearly price ($99, on sale at $54). Great resource for new & rusty Laravel developers.

trifon_tsvetkov 4y ago

We're doing 50% off CodeInterview Pro (coding interview tool). So $24.50/m instead of $49/m for new customers. Link: https://codeinterview.io/pricing https://codeinterview.io/pricing Coupon code: BLACKFRIDAY2022

dceddia 4y ago

I'm doing a 50% off sale for my app Recut, https://getrecut.com https://getrecut.com It's a simplified video editor that removes pauses and dead air, and creates a cut list you can then import into a "real" editor. Saves a bunch of time if you're doing talking-head videos, vlogging, podcasts, screencasts... the sorts of content where the first step of editing is to chop out the long pauses and mistakes. I originally built it because I was doing screencasts and wanted the process to go faster :D

camtarn 4y ago
Ooh, that's a great app idea! I hate having to do this in my own videos - it takes so long.
browningstreet 4y ago
Hope you don’t mind the Q: does Camtasia support the export format for cuts..? Thanks.
- dceddia 4y ago
  Not right now, no. As far as I know Camtasia can't import XML, so I need to export something in their own format. It's on my list of export formats to add.
austinpena 4y ago
Do you find that people use the “remind me on my computer” feature? I like it
- dceddia 4y ago
  It brings in a handful of signups, not as many as I thought it would. Plus the occasional comment about how people like it :)
  - austinpena 4y ago
    Makes sense! And by the way thanks for teaching me React two years back, your course was the only thing that made sense to me.

notacoward 4y ago

I put off buying a new gaming laptop for my daughter until I could find one with decent specs for under US$1000. I'd check every week or so. Finally, thanks to Black Friday, I found two yesterday that had just crept under. Asus TUF F15 at B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1702433-REG/asus_fx507zm_bs74_tuf_i7_12700h_16gb_1tb.html https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1702433-REG/asus_fx50... Acer Predator Helios at Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-predator-helios-300-15-6-fhd-165hz-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-ddr5-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-512gb-ssd/6504563.p?skuId=6504563 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-predator-helios-300-15-6-f... They're really almost identical; I ended up buying the TUF (which has since gone up but only by $20) because it had a larger SSD. I'm sure somebody else can do better - please comment here if you do! - but this seems to set a pretty good benchmark.

gavinray 4y ago
I owned the previous generation of the Asus TUF, the A15, along with my wife, and can recommend it. My experience with these low-end gaming laptops is that the screens are low quality. You might buy her an external monitor and a wireless keyboard + mouse so she can use it in clamshell mode. But those are fantastic deals -- kind of jealous actually. Last year I paid ~$1,400 on Black Friday for an MSI GE76 Raider 11UE that has these specs: > 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 17.3" FHD 144 Hz, i7-11800H (11th Gen), RTX 3060 Computing advances at insane paces.

throwaway290 4y ago

Every Layout. Not directly for specific solutions and components but more to get inspired from them and from latest CSS capabilities they use (seeing them in action beats reading specs). Updates for life are promised.

shaprack 4y ago

Here's the list of Top Amazon Black Friday deals which are currently active - https://thegadgetlite.com/2022/11/amazon-black-friday-deals-usa/ https://thegadgetlite.com/2022/11/amazon-black-friday-deals-...

gnicholas 4y ago
FYI, they don't list prices here and have incorrect photos for at least some items (Apple Watch 8 shows an image of an AWU).
- shaprack 4y ago
  Thanks for the information, I saw it too, but what I like about them is that they are constantly refreshing it with new offers.

KronisLV 4y ago

The VPS provider that I use, Time4VPS has some pretty nice discounts until the 28th of November: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link) Another already affordable VPS provider, Contabo, also seems to have nice deals: https://contabo.com/en/ https://contabo.com/en/ (they expire in an hour at the time of writing) The Namecheap domain registrar that also offers e-mail and other stuff has some ongoing deals: https://www.namecheap.com/domain-web-hosting-ssl-deals/black-friday/ https://www.namecheap.com/domain-web-hosting-ssl-deals/black...

byteflip 4y ago

I picked up some discounts on recurring software/app subscriptions I use: Fitbod Elite - Workout tracking/planning - 40% off - 47.99 annually - I was paying 12.99$ a month!!! Plex Pass Lifetime - 25% off - 90$ once - Regular $120 I have used YNAB for budgeting for years. I wish I could find a discount on that. Still keeping an eye out for any other similarly useful deals on stuff I already pay for.

Paul_Grsl 4y ago

AI GENERATION TOOLS Thundercontent AI Writer (140+ languages, 20+ tools, based on GPT-3) : $7/ month (usually $49/month) -- https://thundercontent.com https://thundercontent.com Article.Audio (Convert articles to audio with AI): $39 Lifetime deal (usually $19/month) -- https://article.audio https://article.audio

iamcomedy 4y ago

- Copylime - https://copylime.com https://copylime.com is an amazing AI writing tool that I personally had the chance to use. It can help you write anything: from a cold email to a Facebook Ad to a blog post... It has super affordable and generous Black Friday deals: -> One-time $6.99 for 200 credits -> One-time $11.99 for 300 credits + 25 FREE -> One time $16.99 450 credits + 50 FREE

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ScottWRobinson 4y ago

We're running a deal for 38% off ($99 vs $159) for a yearly membership to StackAbuse.com. We have a number of data visualization courses, guided projects, and a pretty extensive course on Deep Learning for Computer Vision. https://stackabuse.com/ https://stackabuse.com/

mlu509 4y ago

- 50% off https://medium.com https://medium.com yearly subscription - 20% off https://getimg.ai https://getimg.ai (text-to-image and AI editor) monthly subscription for 3 months

nelsonfigueroa 4y ago

Little Snitch is 50% off right now. It's an application firewall for MacOS. - https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

powersnail 4y ago

San Francisco Symphony has a 50% off for all seats, which is pretty sweet if you listen to classical music.

fmajid 4y ago
Sadly Michael Tilson Thomas has retired in March due to being afflicted by brain cancer (glioblastoma). I lost my aunt to that horrible, atrocious disease, and wish him the best. Apparently there still are some performances of his scheduled in January.

georgewsinger 4y ago

SimulaVR (https://simulavr.com https://simulavr.com) is offering a $100 discount to Hacker News preorderers: use the code "DISCOUNT_HN" at checkout.

MopMop 4y ago

'Black Friday' - Another consumer's day in the year when everything gets marked up so you can have your discount.

spoils19 4y ago
Maybe for you. Myself and my colleagues have found good deals where things aren't marked up - your experience is hardly the standard, and it's quite rude to imply that it is.

makeee 4y ago

My React codebase generator is 40% off for the next few days: https://divjoy.com https://divjoy.com

schwartzworld 4y ago

Dynavap has some pretty killer specials. Buy one get one on their B model!

Dimoff 4y ago

- Easy-Peasy.AI - https://easy-peasy.ai https://easy-peasy.ai - AI content assistant, 40% off - Laracasts - https://laracasts.com https://laracasts.com - Screencasts for modern developer, 45% off - DevUtils - https://devutils.com/ https://devutils.com/ — set of small developer tools, 50% off

amboo7 4y ago

DxO https://www.dxo.com/fr/ https://www.dxo.com/fr/ 50% off https://www.dxo.com/en/ https://www.dxo.com/en/

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longnguyen 4y ago

I'm doing a 50% off (first year) for my SaaS KTool, https://ktool.io https://ktool.io It allows you to send multiple types of content to your Kindle: Reddit posts, Hacker News discussions, Twitter threads & newsletters. It supports multiple file types too: PDF, DOCX, markdown etc.

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ioblomov 4y ago

These Apple deals are good till Monday... https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/deals/apple-black-friday-deals-2022 https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/deals/apple-black-friday...

Riphyak 4y ago

We put together a bundle, mostly engineering soft: https://resources.youteam.io/bfcm-bundle-deals-youteam https://resources.youteam.io/bfcm-bundle-deals-youteam