Ask HN: Black Friday/Cybermonday deals for hackers?

#1

Post by 3by7 » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 7:17 AM UTC

I tend to buy most of my yearly subscriptions and learning materials during Black Friday. Are you aware of deals that may be particularly interesting this year? I’m particularly interested on those coming from independent creators as those tend to be less known outside their circles, but anything is fair game.

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#2

Post by fragmede » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 8:36 AM UTC

Parallels Desktop is 20% off. They have support for the M1 Macs, and there's an ARM port of Windows (you have to register for it), and of course various permutations of Linux support ARM.

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#3

Post by uzakov » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC

PortSwigger(creators of BurpSuite) certification cost was reduced to £6.

https://portswigger.net/web-security/certification

Lifetime pass for Plex for £71.24 https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/plex-lifetime-pass-25-off-3...

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#4

Post by pentesterlab » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 10:21 AM UTC

PentesterLab has a special for Black Friday: https://pentesterlab.com/pro

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#5

Post by Tepix » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 10:24 AM UTC

LowEndBox / LowEndTalk have some VPS deals

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#6

Post by DataCrayon » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 10:28 AM UTC

Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) has its 20% off sale running... it's independent :) focus is on creating beautiful and interactive visualisations

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#7

Post by kevinmcconnell » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 11:32 AM UTC

There's a collection of deals from indie makers, collected by Marie Ng, at https://indiemakerblackfri.glide.page/dl/d0a5f4/s/d0a5f4

And the Twitter thread where it started: https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee/status/14609177735848960...

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#8

Post by kevinmcconnell » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 11:36 AM UTC

kevinmcconnell wrote: post #7

There's a collection of deals from indie makers, collected by Marie Ng, at https://indiemakerblackfri.glide.page/dl/d0a5f4/s/d0a5f4 And the Twitter thread where it started: https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee/status/14609177735848960...

Also, full disclosure (and shameless self-promotion;)), I have a deal listed in that collection. My book "Make the most of AWS Lambda with Go" is 50% off with this link: http://kevinmcconnell.gumroad.com/l/lambda-go-book/sale

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#9

Post by asicsp » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 12:03 PM UTC

I'm a self-published author and these are my offers till end of this month:

1) "Practice Python Projects" (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/py_projects/blackfriday) ebook is free (normal price $10)

2) "Learn by example Python bundle" (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/python-bundle/blackfrid...) is $2 (normal price $12) - three ebooks titled "Python re(gex)?", "100 Page Python Intro" and "Practice Python Projects"

3) "All Books Bundle" (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/blackfriday) is $5 (normal price $22) - includes all three Python books mentioned in the bundle above and eight other books on regular expressions and CLI one-liners

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I know a couple of blog posts by indie creators with their own sales and links to other programming deals:

* https://treyhunner.com/2021/11/python-black-friday-and-cyber...

* https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/11/24/python-black-f...

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#10

Post by aquir » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 12:13 PM UTC

Covert Instruments (by the guy behind the LockPickingLawyer) has awesome offers for hackers who require physical access :) https://covertinstruments.com/collections/black-friday