Fresh Hacker News | Lost and Found

30 points by walz 17 hours ago | 3 comments

Walzr's stuff is a fun portal into an earlier era of lighthearted fun internet projects. Keep it up buddy. Bop Spotter is probably still my favorite.

▲ChrisArchitect 15 hours ago

scraped from....where? The Lost & Found systems are all public? Sorry I haven't had to dig something out of a lost & found that wasn't a cardboard box under a front desk or whatever...

▲spelk 2 hours ago

It is scraped from Pixit. They sell lost/found, evidence + seized item management systems. [1] The listings are public; it was cool OP turned this into a mini art piece.

[1] https://www.pixithq.com/

▲happytoexplain 3 hours ago

>Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives

Am I not understanding your question? It's one system - and either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.

▲jmclnx 3 hours ago

I was thinking this was directory "lost+found", but it is about "lost and found" at places like airports.

▲russfink 2 hours ago

Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.

▲stevewodil 1 hour ago

You don’t use it, the system might in edge cases