Ask HN: Any (tech) black friday deals you'd recommend?

[rwol]

Doing post-thanksgiving shopping and thought the HN folk might have some cool gift ideas and deal-hunting strategies to share.

Preferably tech-related since this is HN, but really anything that improves your life / others would be great to hear about.

[fyp]

If you're building a PC, I suggest pcpartpicker.com for comparisons and checking historical prices.

The really good deals (along comments about caveats that aren't apparent from specs) will usually show up on https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales or https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc

[rwol]

I've been watching /r/buildapcsales like a hawk for graphics card deals. Can't decide if I'll pull the trigger on a sub $300 5700 or 5700 xt, or wait until ~summer 2020 for the Navi 2.0 release since I barely game anyway.

[dynamicdox]

I just bought a pc that has a 5700xt and I love it so far. Handles all games flawlessly on high settings

[rwol]

I'm tempted. Do you know which model of the 5700 xt? Is it noisy or not too bad?

[jivings]

https://cashnotify.com/

An OSX menubar app that alerts you when Stripe & Paypal payments come in. I personally use this everyday and it's awesome.

34% discount with the code BLACK19 making it only $6.46

[supacruz]

Hey, (one of the) CashNotify maker here. Thanks for the mention @jivings!

Just to say that base price starts from $19, so 34% off (coupon BLACK19) makes it $12.54. Also, the app is available both macOS + Windows.

Hit me if you have any questions!

[jivings]

Oh yes I misread it, the total discount was $6.46 making the new total $12.54 :)

[dmitripopov]

My product came out of my own pains of providing end user documentation and tech support, so how can I not recommend it? 50% off BFCM. Here's a post that summarizes my work, at least partially: https://www.helpinator.com/blog/2019/09/18/recommended-readi...

[seanwilson]

30% off the first year of yearly plans for Checkbot for Chrome: https://www.checkbot.io/

It's a Chrome extension that tests 100s of pages at a time for web best practices to help you improve the SEO, speed and security of your site. Has a 4.9/5 average review score.

I'm the author though so I'm bias. ;)

[crghilardi]

I have had my eye on LinuxAcademy for learning cloud tech. https://linuxacademy.com/blog/announcements/why-black-friday...

[bharani_m]

50% Off on EmailThis Lifetime Plan - https://www.emailthis.me/lifetime-premium/black-friday

EmailThis helps you save ad-free articles & web pages to your email inbox.

[eric_khun]

https://leavemealone.app

Using it and recommending it: unsubscribe to emails with one click. Also Privacy-focused.

50% off all packages with the BLACK_FRIDAY code!

[vinrob92]

We are having a Black Friday deal at ManyPixels: https://manypixels.co/black-friday

[jhymn]

DNA kits for Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are half price. MyHeritage also has genetic risk/carrier status report + DNA matching kit that's also 50 percent off.

[knobli]

Shodan.io and PentesterLab deals if you are into Cyber Security

[methusala8]

If anyone has any good deals to suggest on Deep Learning/Machine learning courses then, that would be helpful.

[cdnsteve]

Books:

- Apress ebooks for $7

- Manning ebooks 50% off when you spend $50

- Packt Pub $10 ebooks

[copperx]

Any recommendations from those publishers? Any well-known books?