As a HN regular, I find Amazon reviews super useful. You just have to understand which ones to put more faith in or not. And how to poke around for the product

As a HN regular, I find Amazon reviews super useful. You just have to understand which ones to put more faith in or not. And how to poke around for the product you want, and not one being paid to be promoted in the search. But it's not insurmountable.