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mjcurl

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    Show HN: Compare PC Monitors

    I worked on this tool while looking for a new monitor. You can filter by resolution, panel, refresh rate, ports, KVM etc. I use Rtings.com a lot so I added their scores as well. Le…

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    Show HN: I made a comparison site to find the best TV in your budget

    I built this as I was shopping for my first 4k TV. There were too many options, and it was hard to know which was the best one within my budget. Rtings.com offers great reviews, so…

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    Show HN: Every Ask HN about book recommendations

    There are so many great Ask HN threads asking about book recommendations, so I combined all of them and extracted the books mentioned in them. I hope you find a good book! Feedback…

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    Show HN: Hacker News Book Recommendations

    After reading this Ask HN post [1] (and buying too many books), I found myself going through old posts about book recommendations. I wanted to find all books recommended in those p…

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    Show HN: All books recommended on Ask HN

    After reading this Ask HN post [1] (and buying too many books), I found myself going through old posts about book recommendations. I wanted to find all books recommended in those p…

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    The Commonwealth Saga. A sci fi series by Peter F. Hamilton, it covers so many ideas that I'd stay up wondering about. I got engrossed in the sci fi future it created.

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    I personally love my Vivobook. It doesn't get too hot or loud and was a good price. I actually built a tool to compare laptops that you might find useful: https://comparelaptoppric…

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    I think matte/glossy is possible. The others aren't accurate in seller listings, but it might be possible from other resources.

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    Prices are updated once a day. Sellers include battery life and weight, but they are often inaccurate. I'll need a better dataset.

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    Show HN: Laptop Prices

    In the responses to Low Cost Mini PCs ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389931 ), I saw some requests for a similar site but for laptops. To improve on existing tools like h…

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    Thanks! I'll take a look.

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    Update: cleaned up CPUs a bit.

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    UK marketplace has been added :)

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    Not really. I just thought it would offer better performance and keep the stack simple. If you like I can elaborate.

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    Definitely. Bottlenecks will probably be network and storage type. You can probably get a cheap mini PC and add some disks to it.