A 3-kilo bag of Taza chocolate baking chips.
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
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#162Ordering frozen croissants online. Before going to bed you leave one in the oven. Wake up, turn oven on, hit the shower. When you come out, it's ready to eat = cafe experience at home, coffee and a croissant while checking the news.
Curious why and how this is something that needs to be done online. Frozen food sounds like a bad thing to order online.
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#163Space heater, 20 bucks. In the past I chose to heat the bedroom a little on cold days and otherwise suck it up and dress while shivering (no point burning a ton of gas to heat an entire bedroom). Now, I use 1.5 kW for ~3 minutes (0.01 kWh) to have hot air be blown on me while getting dressed in the morning. Because it changes how warm I feel while going downstairs, I also don't need downstairs to be as warm to get wa…
I took this even further, put air purifiers in most rooms and hooked them up to air quality sensors. Mostly they run on the very quiet setting (or not at all), but they’ll automatically spin up if someone cooks, farts, opens a window or hits a vape pen.
What sensors do you use? I have a bunch of air filters but just leave them running all the time.
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#164A few pairs of DarnTough socks. Amazing value. Got them for $17 a pair here: https://www.mastgeneralstore.com/brand/darn-tough-socks
I have steadily been replacing all of my socks with darn tough socks. They absolutely are tough, but the replacement warranty is super simple, too. I snagged one on a loose trim nail, and got a new pair within a week from the company.
You can get them 25% off from gobros.com as well!
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#165As silly as it sounds, this water warmer for baby bottles: https://a.co/d/hhJzLBn Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the family. (We use pre-boiled water for the baby's bottles, so it's not as easy as adjusting a tap.) We bought this after we had our second baby and it's made feeding the baby slightly less stressful.
Or you could do what we did, which is give the baby cold milk straight from the fridge. He didn’t seem to mind, and now won’t drink it any other way!
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#166Lemon squeezer Fry eggs in butter, add a little heavy cream, add half a lemon squeeze and salt Yum!
Sounds pretty unhealthy
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#167Google Assistant. I had a smart clock for years but only now got the full benefit now that I've switched to Keep and Calendar for so many things rather than using various notes apps. My Kobo Libra 2 reader has been great. Although sometimes I wish I'd bought a Kindle or waited for the Scribe, because Kobo books often cost more than Kindle books, and it seems like Kindle has better sideloading support now. Wall mount…
> it seems like Kindle has better sideloading support now.
For books? Hasn’t Kindle always had amazing sideloading support? I think even over a decade ago you could just email your pirated books to a kindle.com email address to have them automagically show up on the kindle.
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#168Merino wool T-shirts. Cost about 30€ instead of previously used 3€ cotton T-shirts. Can wear one for about 3 weeks without washing, with no body odor. Much more pleasant to the skin, even for doing sports, driving, etc. Also, warm in winter, airy in summer. Plan to switch most clothing to merino wool.
Three weeks ? OMG that's a long journey for a t-shirt...
it is... white shirt will definitely stain yellow if you go just a few days w/o washing.
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#169Instant Pot.
Can be used as a rice cooker, slow cooker, pressure cooker (mostly known for this last use)
Though probably not as good for rice specifically as an actual high-end rice cooker, it greatly increased the range of foods I eat.
Makes it easy to make nice one pot meals overnight for multiple days, you can make really good broth soups from chickens etc quickly, or slowly if you prefer.
If you like to try tougher cuts of meat, this is also a good reason to get it. The fact it doesn't occupy one burner is also helpful.
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#170- all matching socks. No more time spent pairing. - clothes drying racks that hook onto radiators. Reduces drying time and clothes crumpling - wired mechanical keyboard. Wired is simpler than wireless. Quality ones have n-key support - bicycle fenders - digital wrist watch so that I check my phone less.
A programmable keyboard is even better. Doesn't even need to be fully programmable via scripts, a simple macro functionality is usually enough. I mapped arrow keys and Home/End to Fn+WASD/QE and code navigation is so much faster now, especially when I have a hand on the mouse.
Let me introduce you to this crazy little program called vim...