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  • The site is slow as hell. I've been waiting for 3 minutes and haven't had results.
    by samorozco
  • Caught me with the state pages doing live aggregates per request. Spent yesterday pre-rendering them and tuning the ISR caches. Should feel sharper now.
    by scarsam
  • 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."
    by Unbeliever69
  • def some price/updating lags

    i saw a listing that ends in 39 minutes and was at $806

    i click to be taken to the listing and its $1,270.00

    by edm0nd
  • Fair. The sub-cron only refreshed lots in the next 24h. Tightened it last night: anything ending soon refreshes every 30min, and anything not seen in 48h gets re-checked. Should be much closer to source on endings now.
    by scarsam
  • Looks like you got the Hacker News hug of death. "Oops Something went wrong

    The server is under heavy load. Please try again in a moment. "

    by graybeardhacker
  • Should be quicker now!
    by scarsam
  • Any plans for RSS feed(s)? Would love to passively track the auctions in this manner. Per state, ending soon etc. would be fantastic.
    by jjordan
  • Easy ship. Will get state, category, and ending-soon feeds out this week.
    by scarsam
  • Site doesn't work well. Probably made with AI.

    Great idea though

    by vatsachak
  • You need to cache search queries.
    by DevX101
  • Yes, queries are wrapped in unstable_cache (using Next.js) (5min TTL); the box was state landing pages doing aggregates uncached. Pre-rendered those overnight.
    by scarsam
  • I almost bought a lighthouse 25 years ago off of a GSA auction. I'm glad my bid lost because I didn't read the fine print carefully about how much the upkeep would cost.
    by bandrami
  • You just have to fund it by doing a YouTube channel about running it.
    by ocdtrekkie
  • Slow, but working well.

    Really needs a way to refine search results to "within X miles of $someGeoPointOrZipCode". I am seeing a lot of neat stuff in California ... but i'm not going to drive 7 hours to go pick it up :)

    by baby_souffle
  • On the list. Blocker is geocoding coverage; not all sources publish lat/long and address quality varies. Backfill in progress.
    by scarsam
  • Agree, or at least a filter by town, which seems to already be included in listings.
    by me_online
  • https://bidprowl.com/listing/lot-of-355-alcatel-kyocera-soni...

    This is GOLD, Jerry, GOLD!

    by markdown
  • Server load issues? Home page loads. Individual states don't seem to.
    by yodon
  • Caught me with the state pages doing live aggregates per request. Spent yesterday pre-rendering them and tuning the ISR caches. Should feel sharper now.
    by scarsam
  • 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.
    by 1970-01-01
  • Is mil spec a good thing or bad thing? It sounds good but I’m guessing you were using it sarcastically?
    by SilverElfin
  • 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.

    by Twirrim
  • Or when you've been wanting to one up your neighbor's boat by buying a drug running speedboat with bullet holes.
    by 83
  • 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...

    by maerF0x0
  • From what I have seen, not too much, though vehicles might have a higher rate due to impounded cars etc.
    by shrubble
  • I have a friend who handles dispositions of equipment for a very large government contractor. You'd probably be very surprised to see some of what goes through his warehouse. He got rid of two kid's go-karts last year. Government contractors buy some weird stuff for weird reasons.
    by graybeardhacker
  • Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945
    by xnx
  • Looks like that one actually works too!
    by beepbooptheory
  • Hadn't come across govauctions.app before today. Idea came out of a weekly idea bot I run; turns out the same gap was obvious enough that two of us built for it within a few weeks. Well done player_piano!
    by scarsam