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A comment on Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? by daringrain32781 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:00PM (#46642136)
A 10 foot USB C cable. It reaches anywhere in the room. I can charge my phone in any position in bed. I only recently 'splurged' on this $10 item and it is the best thing ever.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? by homeonthemtn on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:11PM (#46642564)
Seconding this. Dumbest, most obviously useful thing, yet we never think to buy one. My wife and I have our own now.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? by 7402 on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:56AM (#46647790)
I like a 10 foot USB C extension cable; that way I can turn any shorter adapter cable (USB C to micro, A, lightning, magsafe) into a longer cable.
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