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Show HN: I made a comparison site to find the best TV in your budget

https://comparetvprices.com/

I built this as I was shopping for my first 4k TV. There were too many options, and it was hard to know which was the best one within my budget. Rtings.com offers great reviews, so I decided to combine it with Amazon prices to find the best TV for my budget. You can sort and filter by type (OLED etc), resolution, screen size and price.

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Re:Show HN: Every Ask HN about book recommendations on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @09:29AM (#41994540)
thanks!

Show HN: Hacker News Book Recommendations

https://hackernewsbookrecommendations.com/

After reading this Ask HN post [1] (and buying too many books), I found myself going through old posts about book recommendations. I wanted to find all books recommended in those posts and save the top ones for future book shopping sprees. This has been done before [2, 3], but I wanted to get books that were recommended, not just mentioned.I used the Algolia API [4] to get all Ask HN posts...

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Show HN: All books recommended on Ask HN

https://hackernewsbookrecommendations.com/

After reading this Ask HN post [1] (and buying too many books), I found myself going through old posts about book recommendations. I wanted to find all books recommended in those posts and save the top ones for future book shopping sprees.This has been done before [2, 3], but I wanted to get books that were recommended, not just mentioned.I used the Algolia API [4] to get all Ask HN posts about...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:14PM (#41803055)
The Commonwealth Saga. A sci fi series by Peter F. Hamilton, it covers so many ideas that I'd stay up wondering about. I got engrossed in the sci fi future it created.
I personally love my Vivobook. It doesn't get too hot or loud and was a good price.

I actually built a tool to compare laptops that you might find useful: https://comparelaptopprices.com

Re:Show HN: Laptop Prices on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:37AM (#41789068)
I think matte/glossy is possible. The others aren't accurate in seller listings, but it might be possible from other resources.
Re:Show HN: Laptop Prices on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @10:13AM (#41788197)
Prices are updated once a day. Sellers include battery life and weight, but they are often inaccurate. I'll need a better dataset.

Show HN: Laptop Prices

https://comparelaptopprices.com/

In the responses to Low Cost Mini PCs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389931), I saw some requests for a similar site but for laptops.To improve on existing tools like https://pcpartpicker.com/products/laptop/, I added PassMark scores (with a lot of regex!) and live prices from Amazon. I also added panel types and refresh rates, and sorted results by a weighted rating, which takes the...

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Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:56AM (#41499119)
Thanks! I'll take a look.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:48AM (#41454502)
Update: cleaned up CPUs a bit.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:48AM (#41454501)
UK marketplace has been added :)
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:47AM (#41454500)
Not really. I just thought it would offer better performance and keep the stack simple. If you like I can elaborate.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:46AM (#41454494)
Definitely. Bottlenecks will probably be network and storage type. You can probably get a cheap mini PC and add some disks to it.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:44AM (#41454485)
added!
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:44AM (#41454479)
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:43AM (#41454477)
Thank you!
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:41AM (#41454463)
I'll add a custom search for that, thank you!
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:40AM (#41454458)
Unfortunately eBay doesn't take in affiliates from my country.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:38AM (#41454449)
Definitely made more for buying used mini pcs.
Re:Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:38AM (#41454446)
I'll try to include some custom searches for 'good' models.

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