Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by fauria » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 8:41 AM UTC

Machine Learning Mastery has a 40% discount on all their products using the code "blackfriday": http://machinelearningmastery.com/

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#12

Post by ncr100 » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 8:59 AM UTC

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/button

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#13

Post by svacko » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:03 AM UTC

If you are into a software architecture, @simonbrown is offering both of his software architecture books for FREE on Leanpub https://twitter.com/simonbrown/status/800340593507438593 https://leanpub.com/b/software-architecture

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#14

Post by grecy » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:09 AM UTC

Put some gas in your tank and head out camping for a weekend.

Or take some unpaid leave and spend the time with you family.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#15

Post by lwhalen » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:10 AM UTC

cookingrobot wrote: post #10

HTC Vive is $100 off this weekend on Amazon.

Does the Vive support Macs or Linux yet?

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by ctchocula » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:20 AM UTC

slededit wrote: post #3

I purchased a 1TB EVO 850 from newegg/amazon (both have the same price). But I had a specific need for large fast storage.

Thanks for the heads up! Been meaning to buy one for gf's 2012 MBP, and now seems like the best time.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by icecreammatt » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:21 AM UTC

lwhalen wrote: post #15

cookingrobot wrote: post #10

HTC Vive is $100 off this weekend on Amazon.

Does the Vive support Macs or Linux yet?

Valve has indicated that support for it is coming soon. Their recent developer conference they demoed it running on Linux. I'm not sure how well it's going to work on Mac with the lack of decent graphics cards unless maybe using a Hackintosh.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by noja » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:22 AM UTC

rebirth2 wrote: post #5

am waiting for the safari books online subscription deal. Last yr they had a 50% price drop.

nearest I saw: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

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Post by geocar » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:27 AM UTC

icecreammatt wrote: post #17

lwhalen wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the Vive support Macs or Linux yet?

Valve has indicated that support for it is coming soon. Their recent developer conference they demoed it running on Linux. I'm not sure how well it's going to work on Mac with the lack of decent graphics cards unless maybe using a Hackintosh.

Then I'll consider it "soon".

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#20

Post by jakebasile » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 9:30 AM UTC

If you're a gamer, there's tons of stuff on sale. On Steam you can get Doom for $20, and it is well worth it. I'm also binging on The Division which is $25 with an optional $20 season pass for some extra stuff. If you want something more low key Stardew Valley might be the ticket.