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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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

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Post by Unbeliever69 »

samorozco wrote: post #42

The site is slow as hell. I've been waiting for 3 minutes and haven't had results.

Vibe coders don't understand concepts such as: indexing, caching, deduping, memoization, profiling, Big O, N+1 queries, lazy loading, connection pooling, pagination, re-render management, layout thrashing, virtualization, debouncing, code splitting, memory leaks, garbage collection, streaming vs. buffering, async parallelism, main thread blocking, race conditions, backpressure, request waterfalls, payload optimization, batching, round-trip costs, cache invalidation, hot path analysis, data structure selection, and countless other concepts related to performance."

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

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Post by s5300 »

edm0nd wrote: post #56
craftkiller wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah thank you for your site! Before your post, I didn't know the government auctioned off homes online and through following the links to the auctions I learned about the FHA $100 down payment program.

yeah but do you really want to live in an area that has HUD housing? Most of the time they aren't in the best areas and/or in high crime areas. also perhaps the house is gunna take 5-6 figures of work to rehab and become livable. far better ways to burn your $ unless you just really need a house ASAP to live in for a year.

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

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Post by Loughla »

edm0nd wrote: post #56
craftkiller wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah thank you for your site! Before your post, I didn't know the government auctioned off homes online and through following the links to the auctions I learned about the FHA $100 down payment program.

yeah but do you really want to live in an area that has HUD housing? Most of the time they aren't in the best areas and/or in high crime areas. also perhaps the house is gunna take 5-6 figures of work to rehab and become livable. far better ways to burn your $ unless you just really need a house ASAP to live in for a year.

If you look in rural areas they're not too bad in terms of neighbors.

But they'll absolutely have to be gutted and remodeled.

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

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Post by millzlane »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #63
xnx wrote: post #6

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

People are realizing lots of government data sources are free and building vibe coding apps around them...

Yea, this one had wrong and broken info all over it.

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

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Post by Twirrim »

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.

If you ever want knives, you can get a fascinating set of them by looking out for the TSA/Airport confiscated items auctions.

Hawaii's one is at https://auctions.ehawaii.gov/dot/welcome.html. I had a boss when I lived in Hawaii that would bid on them, occasionally brought boxes of the random "sharps" (as they were called at the time) that had been confiscated from people by TSA. Some of it is somewhat surprising that people still had on them when they got to TSA, like high quality 18" long machetes.

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

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Post by protocolture »

Twirrim wrote: post #77
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.

If you ever want knives, you can get a fascinating set of them by looking out for the TSA/Airport confiscated items auctions. Hawaii's one is at https://auctions.ehawaii.gov/dot/welcome.html . I had a boss when I lived in Hawaii that would bid on them, occasionally brought boxes of the random "sharps" (as they were called at the time) that had been confiscated from people by TSA. Some of it is somewhat surprising tha…

My backpack is a bit of a black hole. I used to get pulled up due to carrying my grandfathers pocket knife all the time.

Then as things got worse, these days its screwdrivers, wrenches etc.

Seems like soon even my ethernet cables are going to be taken from me.

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Post by derektank »

wildzzz wrote: post #52
adrianpike wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Bid price is kind of irrelevant for milspec. What's actually important is understanding what the spec requires. A crappy rucksack from Amazon doesn't have a milspec, they can say whatever they want as long as it lasts longer than the 30 day warranty and return period. Obviously govsurp rucksacks don't have warranties but there's a legit spec you can look up that says how it was made and tested. Since it wouldn't have…

The lowest bidder meme is real, exactly because, for a certain number of contracts, either very junior of very understaffed acquisition professionals will bid out contracts with underspecified requirements. If the contracts have well developed specs, yes, milspec can be great (though it often has an equally great commercial off the shelf comparable).

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

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Post by ufocia »

triceratops wrote: post #29
cucumber3732842 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or want to get absolutely ripped off by the non-government sellers that are somehow allowed on those platforms. The whole point of Govdeals et al is that the seller is a known-ish quantity. If I wanted to roll the dice on garbage with fresh paint I'd be on Ritchie bros. Govdeals managed services (or whatever they call it now) is just as questionable as 3rd party sellers on any given big bog store's ecommerce "platfor…

> Or want to get absolutely ripped off by the non-government sellers that are somehow allowed on those platforms I didn't realize the government could become Amazon.

Not government, these are private auction sites that cater to the governments.
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