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Ask HN: What tools do you pay for today that feel overpriced or frustrating?

1•psicombinator•14m ago
Hello everyone,

I’d love to hear about:

1. Tools you pay for that feel overpriced or frustrating (especially if you’d replace them immediately if something better existed), and

2. Anything that routinely costs you time, money, or attention (and how much money and time it costs you).

I’m most interested in problems that are painful enough that you’d gladly pay to fix them.

If you’re open to sharing, it'd be nice to know:

1. the exact problem 2. how you solve it now 3. the approximate budget or cost

Thank you. The more concrete and specific, the better.

Source of Widespread 'Forever Chemical' Contamination in N Carolina

https://pratt.duke.edu/news/uncovering-the-source-of-widespread-forever-chemical-contamination-in...
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

Marriott's Disastrous Bet on Short-Term Rental Company Sonder

https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/sonder-bankruptcy-marriott-partnership-d0ced515
1•JumpCrisscross•4m ago•0 comments

Micromort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
1•supermdguy•10m ago•0 comments

How many valid JSON byte sequences are there?

https://qntm.org/jsonutf
1•zdw•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What tools do you pay for today that feel overpriced or frustrating?

1•psicombinator•14m ago•0 comments

RuBee

https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html
11•Sniffnoy•28m ago•0 comments

Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8676qpxgnqo
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The Cloudflare outage was a good thing

https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
2•radeeyate•32m ago•0 comments

KeePassXC 2.7.11 Released

https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-23-2.7.11-released/
1•theodorejb•33m ago•0 comments

A free tool that stuns LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters

https://gibberifier.com
2•wdpatti•36m ago•1 comments

McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of

https://www.bedelstein.com/post/mcmaster-carr
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Style Reference vs. Image Prompts: What's the Difference?

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1•zack119•42m ago•0 comments

Visualizing asymmetry in the 196 Lychrel chain (50k steps, 20k digits)

1•jivaprime•45m ago•0 comments

Napster Said It Raised $3B from an Investor. Now 'Investor' and 'Money' Are Gone

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/11/23/napster-said-raised-3-billion-mystery-investor-...
1•pseudolus•48m ago•0 comments

Ouya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouya
3•Ariarule•50m ago•2 comments

'The public has been lied to': made doc insists that aliens exist

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2•handfuloflight•55m ago•0 comments

SecIron Is Recruiting for Technical Support in KL, Malaysia-Challenge Yourself

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1•bboypy•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 3M km interferometer concept using Saturn moons

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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

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27•signa11•1h ago•12 comments

B-Trees: Why Every Database Uses Them

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8•signa11•1h ago•0 comments

Valve makes almost $50M per employee

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2•xu_ituairo•1h ago•0 comments

US issues security NOTAM for Venezuelan airspace

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7•8ig8•1h ago•1 comments

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Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

53•pugworthy•1h ago•5 comments

Anna's Archive 'WorldCat Scrape' Lawsuit Drops $5M Claim, Pivots to Takedown

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4•t-3•1h ago•2 comments

Passing the Torch – My Last Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony as Crypto Officer 4

https://technotes.seastrom.com/2025/11/23/passing-the-torch.html
11•greyface-•1h ago•0 comments

Future War Will Be Fought with Sticks and Stones

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4•Gaishan•1h ago•1 comments

My Life Is a Lie: How a Broken Benchmark Broke America

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35•jger15•1h ago•17 comments

A Unified Theory of Ego, Empathy, and Humility at Work

https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/
2•mrmatthogg•1h ago•0 comments

LowType: Elegant Types in Ruby

https://github.com/low-rb/low_type
3•lowtype•1h ago•0 comments