Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by bemmu » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:56 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #162

bemmu wrote: post #138

Ordering 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.

Fair question. I live in Japan. Frozen deliveries work reliably, and I don't think we'd have frozen croissants at the supermarket.

I order from a store that seems to mostly serve cafes based on their order sizes (their other products are things like a 13kg box of butter).

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by DamnInteresting » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

I'm surprised by how many things mentioned here are things that improved my own 2022 (air fryer, Steamdeck, bone-conducting headphones, etc.)

A couple of things that I haven't yet seen mentioned:

A LifeStraw Home water filter. It removes the slightly metallic taste from my home tap water.

Cable management boxes (multiple brands). These allow me to hide away the unsightly power strips, power bricks, hubs, excess cords, etc, and make my desk/office much more organized.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by factsarelolz » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

voidmain0001 wrote: post #98

jannw wrote: post #6

I work from home - with a 5 minute screensaver with complicated password required by corporate - USB MouseJiggler - https://www.amazon.com/Undetectable-Computer-Simulate-Moveme... Best - Purchase - Ever - !

Use an Excel macro[0]. No sketchy USB hardware to buy that's really a keystroke logger in disguise. ;-) [0] https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/c19a56...

Until you realize most corps turn off macros or only have macros on for a small subset of users.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by albert_e » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

nickthegreek wrote: post #117

If you control 2-3 computers next to each other, I recommend the Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3s. I can control multiple computers and switch between them by holding ctrl and bringing my mouse to the edge of a screen. It then jumps to the other computer seamlessly. Now my desk is clutter free of multiple mice and keyboards.

did you try this tool "Mouse Without Borders" from Microsoft Garage[0]?

seems to work well for my modest needs. you can either make the mouse move between screens using Ctrl or another key or make it freely roam ...without borders

allows drag and drop of files, shared clipboard etc

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=354...

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by michaelcampbell » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

D13Fd wrote: post #123

Kagi search engine subscription is easily my top choice ( https://kagi.com ). I'm really glad something can finally, truly replace Google search and be just as good or better (neither Bing nor DuckDuckGo were good enough when I tried them). If we're talking physical products, I'd probably go with the Apple Magsafe wallet. It's a little thing but I love not having a separate wallet to keep track of every day.

> DuckDuckGo were good enough when I tried them

I'm curious as to where it lacked. DDG works more than well enough for me, but I'm wondering what other people search for where it is not.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by teekert » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #154

An air fryer. It’s really a badly marketed product. Its real utility isn’t that it uses less oil, but that it cooks incredibly fast. Essentially an oven on steroids. It’s made cooking so much easier. I usually toss some boneless chicken in with a light coating of soy sauce and cornflour. While the chicken cooks, I prep a basic Asian sauce on the stovetop. The chicken and the sauce are both done within 10-15 minutes.…

Yeah this is it, right? People throw fries in airfyrers that just soaked up fat before put in their packaging thinking it's healthy, and it just takes 3x the amount of time to "deep fry" some french fries.

But that is really not it's strong point indeed! It's not an alternative to a deep fryer (but that is primarily the way I see it used), it a faster oven.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by Existenceblinks » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:58 PM UTC

$20 IEM is crazy good. I'm lazy to find out if $100 IEM is already above 97th percentile of human ears capability. A lot of illusion of great quality above p90.

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by formerly_proven » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:59 PM UTC

dougmwne wrote: post #147

Airpod Pro 2 They are basically bionic ears. Headphones, headset, earplugs, hearing protection, hearing aids, extendable ears, and more. Wish they could act as universal translators, but I suppose that's still yet to come.

And you got a great deal on them too at less than 200$!

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by rgoulter » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 3:59 PM UTC

foepys wrote: post #54

pharmakom wrote: post #11

- 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.

And a keyboard where your thumbs are able to use 2-3 keys each is better, still. :-)

Re: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

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Post by michaelcampbell » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 4:00 PM UTC

pharmakom wrote: post #11

- 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.

> all matching socks. No more time spent pairing.

I KIND OF do this; I have a couple different brands with slightly different styles, but they're all black ankle socks so I don't care if one has a gold toe and one doesn't. Drives my wife mad, but it doesn't bother me and I'm either at home or wearing shoes, so...