I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search • Hacker News Board

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by sikozu » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

I'm loving how the deal of the day is a golf cart. https://bidprowl.com/deal-of-the-day/2026-04-30

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by adrianpike » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

SilverElfin wrote: post #30

1970-01-01 wrote: post #8

US Gov auctions are great when you want 400 of something broken or want to travel through 3 states for a $1000 mil-spec kitchen sink.

Is mil spec a good thing or bad thing? It sounds good but I’m guessing you were using it sarcastically?

Depends on the item and if you and the military are optimizing for the same thing It's a lowest bidder situation, so keep that in mind.

Mil-spec transport containers? Excellent.

Mil-spec rucksacks? Not so excellent.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by sikozu » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

player_piano wrote: post #20

xnx wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have had about 10 scrapers from various places scraping the site in the last week. I hope you're adding some fictitious entries ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry ) to track where those scrapes might be going.

This sounds like a fun Saturday morning creative writing activity - "lot of 150,000 surplus government Cybertrucks, lightly used"

Oh that would be fantastic.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by ambicapter » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

Search just seems broken for me. I get

> Error: Invalid frameId for foreground frameId: 0

on Chrome 147.0.7727.102

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by maerF0x0 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

I'm curious how much of this stuff is actually civil asset forfeiture? (Not to blame the site(s) for such practices, but to think about the whole ecosystem of how a government comes to have a bicycle, switch, truck etc)

https://reason.com/category/criminal-justice/civil-asset-for...

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by infecto » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

Didn’t a site like this just show up a few weeks back on here? What is the interest in government auction sites?

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by sparrish » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

I chose 'Colorado' from the state dropdown and got a blank page. Does the site work at all?

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by hchak » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:20 PM UTC

Commerce is so back!

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #6

Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

Cool, I just bought a school bus.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by postalrat » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

pwr1 wrote: post #23

Nice execution. How are you handling deduplication when the same asset shows up on multiple sites?

I work in the HR space and though about something similar with jobs. A bunch of recuiters will publish the same job. What I figured would be best is have one job entry and show all the recruiters who published and let you go to one of them.