[HN Gopher] A graph explorer of the Epstein emails
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A graph explorer of the Epstein emails
https://github.com/maxandrews/Epstein-doc-explorer
Author : cratermoon
Score : 178 points
Date : 2025-11-15 07:27 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com)
| wnevets wrote:
| where is bubba?
| analog31 wrote:
| Retired from public office.
| liotier wrote:
| "Brad Edwards" and "Bradley Edwards" might be the same
| individual.
| GuinansEyebrows wrote:
| Likewise for instances of "Larry" and "Lawrence" Summers...
| probably a lot of those.
| tovej wrote:
| Yes, the dataset also has three entries for Virginia Giuffre,
| "Virginia L. Giuffre", "Virginia Roberts Giuffre", and "Jane
| Doe Number 3 (Virginia Roberts)"
| DrewADesign wrote:
| I'm sure some developer/archivist is working on a name
| authority as we speak.
| cyrusradfar wrote:
| great use case for using AI to suggest mergers and clean up.
| specproc wrote:
| LLMs are awful for this. I've got a project that's doing
| structured extraction and half the work is deduplication.
|
| I didn't go down the route of LLMs for the clean up, as
| you're getting into scale and context issues with larger
| datasets.
|
| I got into semantic similarity networks for this use case.
| You can do efficient pairwise matching with Annoy, set a
| cutoff threshold, and your isolated subgraphs are merger
| candidates.
|
| I wrapped up my code in a little library if you're into this
| sort of thing.
|
| github.com/specialprocedures/semnet
| jrochkind1 wrote:
| Why are they all moving, what does the time axis represent?
| alhadrad wrote:
| Its because the layout system has also a physics system.
| piyh wrote:
| >A force-directed graph is a technique for visualizing networks
| where nodes are treated like physical objects with forces
| acting between them to create a stable arrangement. Attractive
| forces (like springs) pull connected nodes together, while
| repulsive forces (like electric charges) push all nodes apart,
| resulting in a layout where connected nodes are closer and
| unconnected nodes are more separated
|
| https://observablehq.com/@d3/force-directed-graph/2
| ivape wrote:
| I'm curious which LLM tools actually handled all 23k emails well.
| zeld4 wrote:
| it's done one by one in Claude.
|
| https://github.com/maxandrews/Epstein-doc-explorer/blob/83ee...
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Oh Cthulhu, this is like a periscope into a septic tank...
| bamboozled wrote:
| Yes almost no one has been held accountable for any of it,
| "weird"?
| theultdev wrote:
| This is the best rendition I've seen so far.
|
| The Bill Clinton entity is interesting.
|
| > 2009: Bill Clinton discontinued association with Jeffrey
| Epstein
|
| > 2010: Jeffrey Epstein provided flights on jets to Bill Clinton
|
| > 2010-2011: Jeffrey Epstein traveled via private aircraft with
| Bill Clinton
|
| > 2011: Ghislaine Maxwell piloted helicopter for Bill Clinton
|
| > 2014: Bill Clinton alleged presence at sex parties
|
| > 2015: Bill Clinton distanced relationship from Jeffrey Epstein
|
| Wasn't very good at discontinuing the relationship it seems.
|
| Guess there is precedent for him lying about sexual activities
| though.
|
| I think a sentiment analysis between the friendliness and social
| meetups between Epstein and other individuals would be useful.
|
| Who were his friends after 2008 when he was first convicted?
|
| Those who were still friends with him after 2008 were in on it or
| guilty by association, if not legally, socially.
|
| Friends like Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers...
|
| > From: Reid Hoffman
|
| > Sent: 7/6/2015 5:04:31 PM
|
| > To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
|
| > Subject: RE: ICYMI
|
| > slow progress.
|
| > planning to see you in August.
|
| > Hope you're well.
|
| Larry Summers has too many to list. Doesn't look good though
| digging through them.
| tinyplanets wrote:
| I'd take a look at Trump. He's on a whole different level. Lots
| of rape and sexual abuse of minors... wow.
| theultdev wrote:
| Of course, deflect discussion to Trump. Does that make any of
| those other people look better to you?
|
| Trump gave information against Epstein in 2009 and unlike
| Bill and others _did_ cut ties after learning he was poaching
| girls from Mar-a-Lago.
|
| I _specifically_ made the point to look into those who were
| friends with Epstein even after knowing what he was doing.
|
| Nice whataboutism though. Feel free to reference source
| materials to support your claims.
|
| Btw are you a bot or is that just a canned statement you use?
| sanktanglia wrote:
| Trump was with Epstein in 2017, he didn't cut ties at all
| theultdev wrote:
| That's a lie that has already been proven false since
| Trump's entire trip was documented.
|
| Love how we have actual evidence against people but
| discussions always devolve into some conspiracy related
| to Trump.
|
| ----
|
| Based on the available evidence, there is no confirmed
| meeting between Trump and Epstein in 2017. While both men
| were in Palm Beach during Thanksgiving week 2017, there
| is no direct evidence they met.
|
| Here's what we know about their presence in Palm Beach
| that week:
|
| - Trump was at Mar-a-Lago from November 21-26, 2017
|
| - Epstein owned a mansion in Palm Beach and was known to
| be in the area
|
| - Epstein mentioned both Trump and himself being "down
| there" (Palm Beach) in an email exchange on November 23,
| 2017
|
| While there were claims circulating online that Trump
| spent Thanksgiving with Epstein in 2017, these claims
| have been thoroughly investigated and found to be
| unsubstantiated
|
| Trump's official calendar for that week shows his
| activities included:
|
| - Thanking military members on a virtual call
|
| - Visiting Coast Guard members at Lake Worth Inlet
| Station
|
| - Playing golf with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson
| timeon wrote:
| > Trump gave information against Epstein in 2009
|
| Does it matter? Like there are dozens of photographs of
| him, Epstein and underage girls.
| bamboozled wrote:
| Seems to get away with it all, meanwhile, we all pay our
| taxes, don't break any laws and just be "good people".
| beepbooptheory wrote:
| This obviously the correct lens but note that the 2008 plea
| deal was so neutered by the time of settlement it made it
| somewhat easy to stay friends with him.
|
| This is of course ontop of the 2006 Florida prostitution charge
| though.
| theultdev wrote:
| Especially when Epstein was paying off journalists at the NYT
| and intimidating other outlets.
|
| But point being those people that were friends with him _had_
| to know. Whether it was socially acceptable by the elite
| because the public wasn 't aware isn't very relevant.
| pickpuck wrote:
| What if we extended this idea beyond one dataset to all discrete
| news events and entities: people, organizations, places.
|
| Just like here you could get a timeline of key events, a graph of
| connected entities, links to original documents.
|
| Newsrooms might already do this internally idk.
|
| This code might work as a foundation. I love that it's RDF.
| j-pb wrote:
| If it's RDF it won't work as the foundation.
| axus wrote:
| One wonders what the US government agencies use.
| abnercoimbre wrote:
| I think you meant one _shudders_. And yeah, Snowden made it
| clear there 's orders of magnitude more data than this graph
| explorer for them to sift through.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Isn't that what Palantir's product is?
| cjohnson318 wrote:
| They probably use Excel, maybe Microsoft Access.
| ToucanLoucan wrote:
| Microsoft Access form that connects via IIS to an Excel
| spreadsheet acting as a database. Also the server it's
| running on is sitting on a wooden table.
| fancy_pantser wrote:
| Software like i2 Analyst's Notebook.
| dboreham wrote:
| Internet search engines have their origins in government
| projects fwiw. They had search engines before Alta Vista,
| used for searching data sets that pre-date the internet, and
| some of the people involved in those went to work on the
| original commercial search engines.
| VikingCoder wrote:
| Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a
| cautionary tale
|
| Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus
| from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
| FanaHOVA wrote:
| One co trying: https://www.system.com
| jandrewrogers wrote:
| This has been attempted many times. They all fail the same way.
|
| These general data models _start_ to become useful and
| interesting at around a trillion edges, give or take an order
| of magnitude. A mature graph model would be at least a few
| orders of magnitude larger, even if you aggressively curated
| what went into it. This is a simple consequence of the
| cardinality of the different kinds of entities that are
| included in most useful models.
|
| No system described in open source can get anywhere close to
| even the base case of a trillion edges. They will suffer
| serious scaling and performance issues long before they get to
| that point. It is a famously non-trivial computer science
| problem and much of the serious R&D was not done in public
| historically.
|
| This is why you only see toy or narrowly focused graph data
| models instead of a giant graph of All The Things. It would be
| cool to have something like this but that entails some hardcore
| deep tech R&D.
| babelfish wrote:
| I don't have any experience on graph modeling, but it seems
| like Neo4j should be able to support 1 trillion edges, based
| on this (admittedly marketing) post of theirs?
| https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-scales-trillion-
| plus-...
| johongo wrote:
| Emil Eifrem (founder of Neo4j) has a talk about them doing this
| with the Panama papers
| yndoendo wrote:
| After seen this I interested in a map of each person to assist
| with knowing who they are, who they worked for during the email
| date, and who they currently work for.
| rapnie wrote:
| Oof, browser freeze, computer slowdown, then sudden crash reboot
| of my ubuntu dev machine, upon loading the graph in firefox.
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