Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

Re:Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? by rurp on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:33AM (#46648330)

My dad is adamant that coffee beans should only be ground right before use because the resulting coffee tastes so much better. I, on the other hand, can't taste a bit of difference; there's no way I could pick out the pre-ground coffee in a blind taste test.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? by Tomte on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:58AM (#46681379)

Me too. I actually bought a selection of freshly roasted beans from a local roaster, and when I came back I said that I could not distinguish the Peruvian one from the somewhere else one. The roaster was shocked.

I‘d love to have better taste, but I‘m saving so much money, I do not really care.

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