[HN Gopher] Show HN: Jmail - Google Suite for Epstein files
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       Show HN: Jmail - Google Suite for Epstein files
        
       Hi everyone! My name's Luke and I made the original Jmail here
       alongside Riley Walz. We had a ton of friends collaborate on
       building out more of the app suite last night in lieue of DOJ's
       "Epstein files" release.  Please AMA!
        
       Author : lukeigel
       Score  : 1358 points
       Date   : 2025-12-20 21:00 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.jmail.world)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.jmail.world)
        
       | dvrp wrote:
       | See also:
       | 
       | - JPhotos: https://www.jmail.world/photos
       | 
       | - JDrive: https://www.jmail.world/drive
       | 
       | - JAmazon: https://www.jmail.world/jamazon
        
         | jtfrench wrote:
         | No way. Next level.
        
       | dvrp wrote:
       | I participated on this project, but I'm not the main contributor.
       | In fact, I'm working on running an ML model to get some nice
       | gaussian splat visualizations of some of the relevant images
       | based on the recent release by Apple's model: SHARP. It allows
       | doing inference of a PLY point-cloud based on a single JPG image.
       | 
       | Hopefully I can merge some UI for it soon, but I'm away from my
       | main computer right now.
       | 
       | EDIT: I'm going to text my friend Luke to comment and answer any
       | questions about the project.
       | 
       | EDIT2: I am also happy to expand on the technical details of the
       | project once I get a stable internet connection.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Yes, thanks Diego! Really excited about this.
         | 
         | I'm one of the co-creators of Jmail alongside Riley Walz. We
         | launched a Gmail-like view of Epstein's inbox last month. It
         | got millions of page views, tons of really amazing requests to
         | collaborate on making more related data accessible, and even
         | new Yahoo emails that no one else has allowed the public to
         | see.
         | 
         | Yesterday's DOJ drop resulted in this very spontaneous rag-tag
         | team of friends coming to my place in SF and each making their
         | own app in the "Jmail" Suite. Riley and I are pretty shocked by
         | how versatile this parody style is for visualizing Epstein's 20
         | year digital footprint.
         | 
         | It's been a ton of fun and we're working hard to polish each
         | view here.
        
         | Retr0id wrote:
         | What benefit do you get from the splat-ification? Surely any
         | relevant details are visible in the original jpegs?
        
       | fredrickd wrote:
       | the J suite of products grows larger
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Discussion (144 points, 29 days ago, 11 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004118
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | I saw, but the project has changed since then. There's now
         | Google Photos, improvements to Drive, Jemini (LLM that can
         | assist when understanding the files), and JFlights for flight
         | tracking.
         | 
         | I sent an email to the hn email with more details!
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Last night we made a _ton_ of new apps and we added  "the
         | Epstein" files which DOJ dropped yesterday.
         | 
         | Also since that post we worked with Drop Site News + DDoSecrets
         | to post new Yahoo emails that no one has let the public see
         | yet.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Despite the upvotes, that one only spent 8 minutes on HN's
         | frontpage, so I think we can treat this repost as a non-dupe.
        
           | ffin wrote:
           | Is data about how long links are on the front page available
           | publicly anywhere?
        
             | dang wrote:
             | There are a number of third party sites that do this, such
             | as hnrankings.info:
             | 
             | https://hnrankings.info/46339600/
             | 
             | https://hnrankings.info/46004118/
        
       | aizk wrote:
       | Shoot I wish I would've have known there was a collab, would've
       | loved to participate in this.
        
       | the_gipsy wrote:
       | The back button doesn't work
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | In which app? Photos, email, etc? Tested across each.
        
           | dvrp wrote:
           | Also which platform? Mobile? I've noticed some burger menus
           | failing on mobile.
        
       | muzani wrote:
       | I'm impressed. You guys cloned a whole suite of products in a
       | short period of time that cost millions of dollars. Even the
       | little bits of humor look costly.
       | 
       | On the other hand, it's way more information than I expected. I
       | can see why someone would hesitate to release them - there's a
       | lot to sift through and it's likely even the government couldn't
       | sift through all of them to make sure their friends weren't
       | mentioned somewhere.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Thanks! And it's a lot of info, yeah. ~90% of _new data_ in
         | yesterday 's drop was photographs, which they redacted for us.
         | 
         | The House Oversight Committee's giant drop in November had tons
         | of data we still didn't take advantage of even after doing the
         | original Jmail, like flight logs.
         | 
         | For the Yahoo release, which is still ongoing, the folks at
         | Drop Site News (see https://www.jmail.world/about) are handling
         | the manual redaction which has been very time consuming, even
         | with tons of AI to help in the background.
        
           | dvrp wrote:
           | Would be nice to explain at some point how we did the
           | structuring of the destructured data.
           | 
           | For now we're focusing on fixing the bugs because we're
           | already seeing an insane wave of traffic so most of us are
           | focused on keeping the site alive.
        
             | nsomaru wrote:
             | Hey, I'd be interested in your thoughts on this, or the key
             | ideas/research results you relied on:
        
               | lukeigel wrote:
               | Yes! We used our friends at Reducto (https://reducto.ai/)
               | for all document extraction and parsing (one of the best
               | companies I've ever referred to YC ;) )
               | 
               | We did an initial parsing pass of all four DOJ document
               | batches on Friday. This takes a raw PDF and returns
               | chunks containing typed blocks--each with a type (Title,
               | Text, Figure, etc.), bounding boxes, content, and
               | confidence scores. For PDFs that were just scans of
               | photographs (which was like 90% of new content in
               | Friday's release), it gave in depth descriptions of
               | those! You can type search terms like "door" at
               | https://www.jmail.world/photos to see what I mean.
               | 
               | For apps like Jmail and JFlights we use their structured
               | extraction endpoint instead--you define a schema (e.g.
               | {from, to, subject, date, body} for emails or
               | {departure_airport, arrival_airport, passengers[], date}
               | for flights) and it pulls those fields directly into
               | JSON.
               | 
               | The JFlights example served as the best ad for Reducto
               | and how doc parsing technology can speed up _hours_ of
               | journalistic investigations like this.
               | 
               | See for yourself. Given this document
               | 
               | https://www.jmail.world/drive/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_002031
               | 
               | It inferred and enriched multiple flight cards on
               | JFlights (https://www.jmail.world/flights). I was really
               | shook when I first saw this.
        
               | adit_a wrote:
               | This might be our coolest case study yet. Thanks for the
               | mention!
        
           | defrost wrote:
           | One interesting thread to pull is "Stuff released and then
           | Yanked back" ...
           | 
           |  _Images removed from Epstein files less than a day after
           | being posted_ -
           | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-21/images-removed-
           | from-e...
           | 
           | promises all the sleuthing excitement of chasing the
           | significance of Donald in a Drawer.
        
             | wahnfrieden wrote:
             | Images were also planted to falsely suggest incriminating
             | evidence.
        
               | wahnfrieden wrote:
               | I see people are not clued into this and incredulously
               | downvote because the file release appears to be in good
               | faith to them such that illegal evidence tampering is out
               | of the question
               | 
               | See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341688
        
               | zahlman wrote:
               | The post you link to is deleted.
        
               | bryanrasmussen wrote:
               | while true, it would probably be useful to provide
               | examples. The one that I am aware of seems to be a
               | picture showing Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross
               | with "redacted" victims
               | 
               | https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65628031/
               | 
               | https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mag7myutmc
               | 2d
               | 
               | however it seems that this photo is actually taken from a
               | 2003 Democratic fundraiser, and the redacted images of
               | victims were of Diana Ross' son Evan, and Michael
               | Jackson's kids, Paris and Prince Jackson. This may or may
               | not be accurate either, since I have not been able to dig
               | down into the photo and determine if it has any
               | connections to a supposed 2003 fundraiser.
               | 
               | But it seems more likely to be true than not that this
               | was sloppily planted evidence that was especially
               | insultingly fake.
               | 
               | on edit: looking closer does not seem to be exact same
               | photos, but instead two different photos taken at the
               | same time and place, so in the 2003 Dem fundraising, but
               | a different photo of that. So it could be that Epstein
               | had it and DOJ thought hey, look at these pervs! Let's
               | release!!
        
               | Arn_Thor wrote:
               | As you say, it's not the same photo. If the one in the
               | dump was in Epstein's possession, the reason for the
               | redactions are either that some drone in the DOJ just
               | redacted all children out of habit, or that it was
               | deliberately done in such a way as to frame Clinton. I
               | can't decide which I find more credible.
        
               | bryanrasmussen wrote:
               | I think if it hadn't been those adults with the kids an
               | alert staffer might have thought "whose kids are these,
               | these aren't young teenage girls, I better double check"
               | But Michael Jackson, kids, Clinton arms around him, Diana
               | Ross with young male, they're thinking they walked into
               | an armory filled with nothing but smoking guns!
        
               | dontlaugh wrote:
               | There's no need to frame Clinton, there is plenty of
               | evidence he was friends with and spent a lot of time with
               | Epstein.
               | 
               | Similarly situation with Trump, for that matter.
        
               | brookst wrote:
               | It is perfectly possible, even common, to frame the
               | guilty. It's easier than finding real evidence.
        
               | dontlaugh wrote:
               | Sure, but in this case there already is plenty of real
               | evidence.
        
               | gruez wrote:
               | >the reason for the redactions are either that some drone
               | in the DOJ just redacted all children out of habit, or
               | that it was deliberately done in such a way as to frame
               | Clinton
               | 
               | They were supposed to redact all minors, not just
               | "victims".
        
               | pohl wrote:
               | Is it possible that one is an input photo and the other
               | is generative AI output?
        
           | alex1138 wrote:
           | I'm being snarky and this isn't such a serious comment and I
           | don't really mean this for Gemini but can you imagine using
           | something like Gemini ("Hi, please comb through this") and it
           | just refuses on ethical grounds
        
             | lukeigel wrote:
             | We found that Codex indeed refuses but Claude + Gemini are
             | willing to RAG it
        
               | muzani wrote:
               | Usually Claude is the prude. Personally I haven't even
               | tried for fear what I'd find. I can stomach homicide and
               | war pictures, but Epstein is too much.
        
               | alex1138 wrote:
               | I just have real institutional problems with Google, they
               | have all the best tech minds but some things are just off
               | limits to them being politically correct
               | 
               | And no, not Epstein. It's a general statement; but it's
               | disappointing that they're like this (and of course
               | Gemini was famously the one that gave black Nazis and
               | things like that)
        
               | underlipton wrote:
               | Google has never fixed their black people/gorilla issue.
               | The foundational tech that all of their products run on
               | going back a decade is fundamentally flawed (and outputs
               | outputs that many would say align with racist ideologies,
               | among others).
        
               | lukeigel wrote:
               | also, shoutout _the_ Jason Liu
               | (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jxnlco) for
               | discovering that one. His turbopuffer-based version of
               | Jemini is coming soon!
        
           | genghisjahn wrote:
           | But, whoever's doing the redacting sees the original right?
           | What prevents the redactor from saying, "here's what the
           | document really said." Or "here's who's in the image, I saw
           | it before I redacted it?"
        
             | freedomben wrote:
             | The idea of spending the rest of their life in prison is
             | what stops them
        
               | helterskelter wrote:
               | Yeah but a few words from somebody like Ghislaine could
               | completely fuck shit up for a lot of people.
               | 
               | Of course, she'll have hanged herself shortly afterward
               | while the security cameras were malfunctioning.
        
             | mcintyre1994 wrote:
             | I'd guess a first pass is done automatically? Eg if a page
             | mentions eg Trump, just redact that whole
             | page/paragraph/etc. So the people who have done the closer
             | reading to redact further probably don't actually know the
             | scale of what was already redacted. Just a guess though.
        
             | chiefalchemist wrote:
             | That's a good point. I would imagine they break it up into
             | pieces - in a reCAPTCHA sorta way - and any given person
             | sees a sentence or a piece of a sentence.
             | 
             | An alternative would be to strip out all obvious known
             | words and only leave unknowns (i.e., names) and then have
             | those fragments reviewed (in a reCAPTCHA sorta way).
             | 
             | Finally, for images, cover all faces and the one by one
             | decide which should remain covered and which should not.
             | 
             | LOTS of work but there are workflows to mitigate the
             | ability for reviewers to connect more than they should.
        
             | sigwinch wrote:
             | Part of the law mandates that all redactions will be listed
             | for Congress within 15 days.
        
             | immibis wrote:
             | People who they think will do this don't get to be
             | redactors. It's all about power and relationships, not
             | technology.
        
             | exe34 wrote:
             | Given how MTG went completely silent despite her high
             | profile platform, I'm guessing the civil (or at this point,
             | royal) servants don't want their families harmed.
        
         | johnys wrote:
         | Yeah, there's a ton of information.
         | https://epsteinsecrets.com/network is another tool to pursue
         | the data dumps.
        
         | Alex3917 wrote:
         | > You guys cloned a whole suite of products in a short period
         | of time that cost millions of dollars.
         | 
         | At the risk of stating the obvious, the functionality isn't
         | actually cloned, only the UI. The actual code powering Gmail
         | probably dates back to the late 80s or early 90s and has had
         | several hundred thousands of hours of work put into it. This is
         | just a webpage that looks kind of similar.
         | 
         | I point this out only because I've seen people saying that
         | software businesses don't have moats anymore because of this,
         | which is taking away a completely false lesson.
        
           | jonathanstrange wrote:
           | Out of curiosity, would you explain what you mean by that?
           | Google was founded in 1998 and writing a mail client isn't
           | terribly complicated. Did they buy some code for Gmail from
           | an older company? Is Gmail older than Google?
        
             | randall wrote:
             | it is not. gmail is 100% from paul bucheit.
        
               | Alex3917 wrote:
               | He wasn't sitting there writing binary code and
               | implementing all 7 layers of the OSI stack by hand, he
               | was was gluing together pre-existing components. And the
               | pre-existing components he had access to include two
               | major email startups acquired by Google in 2001 and 2003,
               | which were founded in 1995 and 1997 respectively.
               | (Although he does have at least two patents for features
               | and algorithms he co-invented while making Gmail.)
        
               | estebank wrote:
               | If I invite you to a barbeque and tell you I made lunch,
               | will you tell me off because I didn't raise and butcher
               | the cow?
        
               | toyg wrote:
               | This is more like using a sauce that someone else made.
        
             | wordpad wrote:
             | A full featured mailed client is insanely complicated. If
             | you think mail client is just smtp, you probably think word
             | is just text with some styling and excel is just some cells
             | and functions.
        
               | appreciatorBus wrote:
               | I'm sure, buried somewhere deep in Google systems, are
               | vestiges of mail server code originally written in the
               | 80s. But when people use the name Gmail, they are
               | generally referring to the client facing web app, which
               | does not have any such code.
        
               | surajrmal wrote:
               | If it exists, it's probably not at all related to Gmail
               | or only used for testing. I don't think Google reuses a
               | lot of third party code in its first party server
               | software.
        
               | HeWhoLurksLate wrote:
               | https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.p
               | df
               | 
               | I mean it has happened in other Google products...
        
               | dboreham wrote:
               | Even "just smtp" isn't trivial.
        
               | pshirshov wrote:
               | It is, or was at least. At the age of 13, I've created
               | one for Windows. It was relatively widely used at the
               | time.
        
             | esseph wrote:
             | Gmail is not _just_ a mail client.
        
               | ape4 wrote:
               | The spam checker alone is an ton of work. It needs to
               | handle millions of mails for millions of users a day.
        
               | sgjohnson wrote:
               | Nitpick: pretty sure both of those are in the billions.
               | 
               | Mails could even be in the trillions.
        
             | Alex3917 wrote:
             | > Did they buy some code for Gmail from an older company?
             | 
             | They bought both Deja and Neotonic.
        
           | 113 wrote:
           | I don't know if I'm just misremembering but it feels like
           | over the last three years or so the technical knowledge on HN
           | has gone down the toilet.
        
             | sheepscreek wrote:
             | Most *nix tools have their origins in the '70s-80s.
             | 
             | Email as a technology is ancient by today's standards. SMTP
             | protocol got established in 1982. Even sendmail dates as
             | far back as the '70s.
        
               | Alex3917 wrote:
               | This is a pretty good talk on the history of email:
               | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
        
               | doctorpangloss wrote:
               | https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
               | /20...
               | 
               | Another great article
        
               | deathslocus wrote:
               | And the earlier technology of homing pigeons goes back
               | even further
        
             | inquirerGeneral wrote:
             | It's Reddit type conversation often
        
             | zahlman wrote:
             | Could it instead be that less technically inclined people
             | feel more empowered to hang out here?
        
               | DrewADesign wrote:
               | Maybe that and manipulating technical tools requires far
               | less background knowledge than it did, meaning the
               | definition of "technically inclined" has shifted, as it
               | often does.
        
               | g947o wrote:
               | "less technically inclined" doesn't mean people can make
               | whatever incorrect claims unchecked like on reddit, where
               | you get banned because you post inconvenient facts in the
               | wrong sub.
               | 
               | And this is exactly why I stopped participating in
               | discussions on reddit and never on LinkedIn. Discussions
               | on HN are so much civil and respectful here
               | 
               | P.S. if the top level comment was indeed posted by a
               | "less technically inclined" person, I hope this is a
               | humbling, positive educational experience, at least
               | that's how I would take it
        
           | bryanrasmussen wrote:
           | I mean it is so obvious causing me to find the use of the
           | phrase cloned so weird that I feel it needs to be said.
           | 
           | The UI cloning doesn't feel exactly correct either there are
           | things that are slightly off.
           | 
           | But I just find the "cloned" wrong, because obviously you
           | cannot send an email from this account, you cannot log in to
           | the service as Jeffrey Epstein, you cannot delete emails,
           | create alerts based on searches, do actions on selected
           | emails (create new tag, move under that tag)
           | 
           | there are so many functionalities that are not cloned because
           | obviously they could not be cloned because they would make no
           | sense for what this project is. So just the praise for
           | cloning so quickly makes me sort of mad.
           | 
           | You could theoretically make something like this that allowed
           | log in so you got a personalized epstein mails, and then
           | could do all that, and perhaps get more mails sent in as
           | files get released, and perhaps create Google alerts on
           | epstein in the news etc. that would come as mails and maybe
           | the code could put news that came in, into the appropriate
           | the tags etc.
           | 
           | But until that time "cloned" is just very wrong.
        
             | DonHopkins wrote:
             | For the holidays, they should at least implement a
             | Shockingly Distasteful Jeffrey Epstein Christmas Card Meme
             | Generator.
        
           | a-dub wrote:
           | > The actual code powering Gmail probably dates back to the
           | late 80s or early 90s and has had several hundred thousands
           | of hours of work put into it.
           | 
           | no. google did not exist until the late 90s.
           | 
           | various forms of internet email sure did, but most popular
           | mtas of the google era shared very little code with
           | predecessors from the 80s and early 90s (maybe sendmail) and
           | google almost certainly wrote their own from scratch.
           | 
           | but your first point. that an archive browser that looks like
           | gmail is not equivalent to a full tilt email service backend
           | is valid.
        
           | nntwozz wrote:
           | Why stop there, I'm sure you can trace Gmail all the way back
           | to the Roman aqueducts.
        
             | AntiqueFig wrote:
             | I mean technically if we didn't have Roman aqueducts, would
             | we have Gmail today?
        
               | bregma wrote:
               | All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine,
               | education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the
               | fresh water system, public health, and GMail what have
               | the Romans ever done for us?
        
               | DonHopkins wrote:
               | All right, but apart from Google Wave, Google Reader,
               | Google+, Inbox, Stadia, Project Ara, Google Glass, Loon,
               | Picasa, Orkut, Hangouts, Allo, Duo, Google Domains,
               | Google Health, Google Notebook, iGoogle, Knol, Jaiku,
               | Daydream VR, Google Play Music, Nexus, Fusion Tables,
               | Bump, Revolv, Songza, QuickOffice, Meebo, Panoramio,
               | Milk, Schemer, Sparrow, Poly, Tilt Brush, Tour Builder,
               | URL Shortener, Latitude, Spaces, Google Hire, Google
               | Bulletin, Shoelace, and Neighbourly, Android Things,
               | Project Tango, Ara Module Marketplace, Google TV, Nexus
               | Q, Google Play Newsstand, Google Play Movies & TV, Google
               | Podcasts, Google Now, Google Now Launcher, Google
               | Goggles, Gesture Search, MyTracks, Google Play Edition,
               | Android Auto for Phone Screens, All Access, Google
               | Currents, Google SMS Search, Google Cloud Messaging,
               | Android Beam, Androidify, Field Trip, Google Currents,
               | and Google Play Artist Hub, what has Google ever done for
               | us?
        
               | LightBug1 wrote:
               | I'm a little out of the loop. Are any of those still
               | active projects?
        
               | DonHopkins wrote:
               | Not a one. ;)
               | 
               | https://killedbygoogle.com/
        
             | ithkuil wrote:
             | The Link Between a Horse's Arse and the Space Shuttle *
             | Physics Forums https://share.google/UnmMwwQv9kyksKhkI
        
               | ThePowerOfFuet wrote:
               | Tracking-free link:
               | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-link-between-a-
               | hor...
        
               | freedomben wrote:
               | I'm not a physicist, but after getting into the rotten
               | fruit this fall, I would bet my friend's horse could
               | _launch_ a space shuttle from her arse. Such a sweet
               | mare, but she has no hesitation blasting Venetian
               | atmosphere right into your face while you 're scraping
               | the shit out of her feet. At least she has the decency to
               | make eye contact while doing it
        
             | Alex3917 wrote:
             | I mean the I would really only include the code for things
             | like:
             | 
             | - Fetching email messages
             | 
             | - Parsing email headers
             | 
             | - Mime parsing
             | 
             | - Converting the text of email bodies into UTF-8
             | 
             | - Threading messages
             | 
             | - Eliding reply text
             | 
             | Given that the official story is that pb made the first
             | version of Gmail in a day, does anyone actually believe
             | that he wrote the code for _any_ of those things in a day?
             | If you honestly believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
             | 
             | Wait till you learn that the source code in Chrome also
             | predates the existence of Google.
        
             | DonHopkins wrote:
             | At least to the Black Death.
        
         | JKCalhoun wrote:
         | "...there's a lot to sift through..."
         | 
         | A job for an LLM...
        
         | wayeq wrote:
         | > - there's a lot to sift through and it's likely even the
         | government couldn't sift through all of them to make sure their
         | friends weren't mentioned somewhere.
         | 
         | if only there were some kind of universal summary engine that
         | never gets tired and is essentially free.
        
         | tonyhart7 wrote:
         | "whole suite of products in a short period of time that cost
         | millions of dollars."
         | 
         | but they just copy the "UI" not the whole product
        
         | huntertwo wrote:
         | > I can see why someone would hesitate to release them -
         | there's a lot to sift through and it's likely even the
         | government couldn't sift through all of them to make sure their
         | friends weren't mentioned somewhere.
         | 
         | Jared kushner, is that you?
        
           | elif wrote:
           | Thinking Gmail costs "millions to develop" sounds exactly
           | like the kind of price unawareness that comes from that
           | family.
           | 
           | I would bet the Gmail team has single employee salaries in
           | that range.
        
             | stanfordkid wrote:
             | To be fair, millions could be hundreds of millions.
        
               | elif wrote:
               | Sure. And you are inches tall.
        
             | an0malous wrote:
             | What do these million dollar salary employees at Gmail do?
        
               | Den_VR wrote:
               | Three things, not all of which any specific employee
               | does: 1. Fix security issues 2. Create "features" in
               | order to seem useful that the world was better without 3.
               | Rest upon laurels of gmail from 15 years ago
        
               | d4mi3n wrote:
               | Make Google multiple millions by improving ad delivery
               | and conversion within Gmail. Probably by also helping
               | Google land big corporate or public contracts, but last I
               | checked most of the money was made via ads in the free
               | tier of GMail.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Please don't be snarky or post shallow internet tropes. We're
           | trying for something else here.
           | 
           | You're welcome, of course, to make your substantive points
           | thoughtfully.
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | qoez wrote:
         | Well there's only 2500 emails here. They definitely had time to
         | sift through these to make sure friends weren't mentioned.
        
           | parpfish wrote:
           | Regardless, it seems like they used the Ctrl-a key to speed
           | up redacting
        
           | jdironman wrote:
           | I read through 80% of them last night by myself. I mean, I
           | didn't go to bed until 3am but spread across a handful of
           | agents? yeah you could do it in an hour.
        
         | Bender wrote:
         | _there 's a lot to sift through_
         | 
         | The total archive size is 300GB. AFAIK they have only released
         | around 2GB. Curious what is in the rest of it assuming it does
         | not get [redacted] out or deleted. I am also curious how they
         | intend to release the rest of it in time to meet the
         | requirements of the act. Discussion [1] _Epstein Files bill
         | sponsor Ro Khanna and Hassan, no dogs being zapped_.
         | 
         | [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2u0Fp3hQg
         | [video][1hr12m]
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | > I'm impressed. You guys cloned a whole suite of products in a
         | short period of time that cost millions of dollars. Even the
         | little bits of humor look costly.
         | 
         | The cynic in me would assume that someone with a lot of money
         | wants to hide some of the emails and the best way to do that
         | (at this point) is to release them filtered with a great UI.
        
           | brookst wrote:
           | That's not cynicism, it's conspiracy theorism. That leads you
           | to "the whole Epstein thing is a hoax designed to distract
           | from what's _really_ going on".
        
             | amelius wrote:
             | No, because the hypothesis is relatively easily
             | falsifiable. This does not hold for conspiracy theories.
        
               | wizzwizz4 wrote:
               | Would you like to do the work of falsifying it? (Since
               | you made the claim, and posted it online, I'd argue you
               | have some responsibility to do so.)
        
             | jdironman wrote:
             | The thing I got from reading the majority of these emails
             | is Epstein / trump connection was not that strong later
             | years. I feel JE humored trump to a degree and disliked him
             | to an even larger degree. He may have initially had strong
             | relations in the beginning but he was NOT pleased he was
             | winning the presidency at all. He mentioned multiple times
             | references to dirt on DT and even at one point there was
             | the question did Trump set him up. Not to say JE did no
             | wrong, cause the evidence is 100% there for that but it's
             | super interesting having read the actual files to see the
             | various media spins on all sides. If anything though it's
             | led me to believe there are much stronger ties to Russia
             | with DT than I thought before. (Palm Beach House, the
             | casino, models coming from those areas etc).
        
         | the_arun wrote:
         | They also have "promotions" tab listing all promo content. I
         | wonder is this real or mock data.
        
       | sweca wrote:
       | Jemini is such a nice touch
        
       | andrewinardeer wrote:
       | Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004118
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | just link dupe, but not content dupe
         | 
         | read rest of the thread with more context on why
        
       | ok123456 wrote:
       | https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026632?email=...
       | 
       | Nice using self-emails as a knowledge base.
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | lol
        
       | amarant wrote:
       | How complete is the material? I've seen "experts" in Swedish news
       | paper DN claim so much is censored it looks like a cover up. Has
       | that been your impression too?
        
         | medler wrote:
         | Yes, it has been redacted far in excess of what the law allows,
         | and the material is a tiny fraction of what the administration
         | was required by law to release by this date
        
           | wahnfrieden wrote:
           | Images were also planted that were not part of the files.
        
             | epistasis wrote:
             | Planted by whom? That were not part of the files? That
             | seems dubious at best. What is your source? It doesn't even
             | make sense.
        
               | dboreham wrote:
               | Makes sense if you are a criminal.
        
               | 9dev wrote:
               | There is a picture of Bill Clinton with Michael Jackson
               | and Diana Ross that was just publicly available before:
               | https://www.threads.com/@meidastouch/post/DSfEKJslM1H
               | 
               | It doesn't belong into the Epstein Files, and doesn't
               | need to be censored either, but the way it is framed in
               | the DoJ release implies guilt where there is none.
        
               | _heimdall wrote:
               | How can you be sure the image wasn't part of the files
               | collected during investigation? What makes you so sure
               | Epstein didn't have the file saved somewhere on a device,
               | server, or account that was collected?
        
               | 9dev wrote:
               | I don't think I expressed a particular opinion here, I
               | just stated where the suspicion comes from.
               | 
               | That being said, I think we can demand a level of due
               | diligence from public institutions that entails only
               | censoring actual victims on actual pieces of evidence,
               | instead of mindlessly placing black squares on the faces
               | of news article pictures found on his computer. Nevermind
               | that nobody can explain yet how this particular picture
               | ended up in the grand jury files anyway.
        
               | goatlover wrote:
               | This is the same DOJ that released the edited Epstein
               | jail video as "raw", with the attorney general claiming
               | the missing minute was from how the video system reset
               | for a new day, when they had the actual raw video with
               | the missing minute.
        
               | _heimdall wrote:
               | Yes, though that was a different situation. If my wallet
               | goes missing I'm not going to immediately blame a person
               | while previously stole something with no other evidence.
        
             | edm0nd wrote:
             | Surely you can link me to the exact "planted" images you
             | are talking about...
             | 
             | who planted them?
        
               | Zambyte wrote:
               | https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mag7myutmc
               | 2d
               | 
               | Here's at least one notable image.
        
               | Arn_Thor wrote:
               | That's not the exact same image, though. It's a separate
               | image, from the same time and place. The one released may
               | have been in Epstein's possession and therefore part of
               | the files. Either some DoJ drone just redacted all
               | children and non-celebrities due to procedure, or it was
               | deliberately done in such a way as to make Clinton and
               | Jackson look suspicious. Whatever the reason, this was
               | not a Getty stock image planted in the files.
        
               | Zambyte wrote:
               | You can see the erroneously redacted image here:
               | https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r38ne1x2mo
        
               | Amezarak wrote:
               | It wasn't erroneous. The DoJ said they were redacting the
               | faces of all non-celebrity women and children under the
               | presumption they could be victims.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | We have three datasets in Jmail now:
         | 
         | 1. DOJ (The White House's docs that they were required by law
         | to drop yesterday plus many court documents, videos, and other
         | docs from many news cycles this year)
         | 
         | 2. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT (the House Oversight Committee's releases.
         | giant November drop that led to the original Jmail, then some
         | photo drops this month)
         | 
         | 3. Yahoo emails (originally sourced by DDoSecrets, then
         | provided to us, redacted and verified by Drop Site News)
         | 
         | There is _so much_ material in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT that never
         | appears in DOJ, and vice versa. And then the Yahoo drop reveals
         | even more new material. It feels like three odd slices of a
         | giant dataset that keeps getting released.
         | 
         | re: people's complaints about yesterday's release having way
         | too many redactions, I have no idea how much they over-
         | redacted. I hear that they will release even more quite soon
         | though.
        
           | mikeyouse wrote:
           | Ah I was going to ask about the Yahoo emails.. are those
           | distinct from the cloned Gmail messages or are they in the
           | same inbox on your site?
           | 
           | Has anyone written a parser for the text messages? A
           | messages-like UI to be able to read through all the texts
           | would be super interesting too. The format DOJ released them
           | in is impossible to follow.
        
             | dvrp wrote:
             | big motivation for the whole project is to help structure
             | the mess that was released
        
             | lukeigel wrote:
             | Another person made an oddly beautiful ASCII ui for the
             | text messages. All seem to be from HOUSE_OVERSIGHT (we have
             | those plus DOJ, YAHOO. No dedicated text UI from us)
             | 
             | https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
             | 
             | He also shouted us out last month which was very kind of
             | him
        
           | cobertos wrote:
           | Why and how is the data from DDoSecrets redacted?
           | 
           | Do you have a page about each dataset you're sourcing and the
           | background on them like your provide here?
           | 
           | The "EFTA00000468" saga has me distrusting the authenticity
           | of most of these datasets.
        
             | lukeigel wrote:
             | Re: the DOJ emails prefixed with "EFTA", I have no idea how
             | over-redacted they are. They definitely seem dubious
             | though.
             | 
             | Re: the DDoSecrets emails though (YAHOO dataset), I have
             | more to share.
             | 
             | Drop Site News agreed to give us access to the Yahoo
             | dataset discovered by DDoSecrets, but on the condition that
             | we help redact it. It's a completely unfiltered dataset.
             | It's literally just .eml files for jeeprojects@yahoo.com.
             | It includes many attached documents. There is no illegal
             | imagery, but it has photos of Epstein's extended family
             | (nephews, nieces, etc) and headshots of many models that
             | Epstein's executive assistant would send to him. I was
             | quite shocked that this thing existed.
             | 
             | We built some internal redaction tools that the Drop Site
             | team is now using to comb through all of this. We've
             | released 5 batches of the Yahoo mail now, with the 1k+
             | Amazon receipts being the most recent.
             | 
             | A few thoughts on how we do redaction are here:
             | https://www.jmail.world/about.
             | 
             | Unlike the DOJ, we've tried to minimize the ambiguity about
             | _what_ was redacted.
             | 
             | For example: all redacted images are replaced with a
             | Gemini-generated description of that photograph.
             | 
             | Another example: we are aggressively redacting _email
             | addresses and phone numbers_ of normal people to avoid
             | spamming them. Perhaps others would leave it all in, but
             | Riley and I don 't want to be responsible for these
             | people's lives getting disrupted by this entire saga. For
             | example, we redacted this guy's email but not his name: htt
             | ps://www.jmail.world/thread/4accfb5f3ed84656e9762740081a4..
             | .
             | 
             | Riley and I were not expecting this type of scope when we
             | first dropped Jmail. Jmail is an interesting side project
             | for us, and this new dataset requires full-time attention.
             | Thankfully we have help though. We're happy to take on this
             | responsibility given how helpful, thoughtful and careful
             | both the Drop Site and DDoSecrets team has been here.
        
               | cobertos wrote:
               | I appreciate the links and transparency. Answers a lot of
               | my questions. Thanks
        
         | jibal wrote:
         | You don't have to lean on "experts" (or experts) or people at
         | HN find these things out:
         | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-01/epstei...
        
         | mkoubaa wrote:
         | The most incriminating stuff isn't censored, it's been
         | completely destroyed by now
        
       | kevin_thibedeau wrote:
       | Wonder how much that Clinton in a blue dress painting will go
       | for.
        
       | rynn wrote:
       | Where did you get all the data? The justice.gov site didn't have
       | a mass download option that I could find.
        
         | slazien wrote:
         | https://www.jmail.world/about
         | 
         | "We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House
         | Oversight Committee release by converting the PDFs to
         | structured text with an LLM"
         | 
         | and:
         | 
         | "Data Sources                   Gmail emails: House Oversight
         | Committee         Yahoo emails: DDoSecrets (brought to us by
         | Drop Site News)
         | 
         | Technology
         | 
         | Document parsing and extraction powered by reducto"
        
           | dvrp wrote:
           | Yes, also many were PPM images (or encoded as such) in PDFs
           | and then I used (cheap/light) multimodal LLMs to classify
           | documents from photos. It was surprisingly cheap: <$1 for a
           | few thousand PDFs / Images.
        
       | sieep wrote:
       | Keep up the good work boys this is great stuff and is actually a
       | pretty intuitive way to view the files, ive been sharing it for
       | weeks now.
        
       | novoreorx wrote:
       | .world domain is a perfectly fit for this project, love to see
       | more power brokers' profile joining this Jmail world
        
       | randall wrote:
       | this is amazing
        
       | umrashrf wrote:
       | That's definitely more than 15 GB of free space given by Google!
       | Great work!
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | gaussian splats alone are >500GBs lol
         | 
         | (lot of bad quality ones though)
        
       | stocksinsmocks wrote:
       | Epstein had a subscription to Intelligence Squared. I feel like
       | his whole character has come into focus for me.
       | 
       | I would have put the "release" part in scare quotes as anything
       | important has been redacted.
        
         | gosub100 wrote:
         | He has tshirts and hats that say "mossad" on them
        
           | vnchr wrote:
           | He ordered Israeli Defense Force pants off of Amazon
           | apparently: https://www.jmail.world/thread/a767cba6e082256743
           | a1069708a4a...
           | 
           | He also ordered like 9 pairs of Crocs. He really liked the
           | fuzzy lined Crocs: https://www.jmail.world/search?q=Crocs
        
             | stocksinsmocks wrote:
             | You can't be at the top of your child selling and money
             | laundering game if your feet hurt.
        
       | tacker2000 wrote:
       | Incredible! Great work!
       | 
       | One suggestion: please add previous/next navigation on the
       | images, so that one doesnt have to open an image, close, open
       | again.
        
         | mastermedo wrote:
         | ditto for email. Usually I open one email on the phone and
         | slide left-right or right-left to navigate between adjacent
         | emails.
        
       | lifestyleguru wrote:
       | Everytime I watch these private jets and helicopters I wonder why
       | flying economy class has to be so miserable in terms of
       | horizontal, vertical, and leg space.
        
       | InMice wrote:
       | You added icons and functionality to go to the beginning or end
       | of search/inbox - Something that gmail just has never budged on
       | having and always annoyed me! One of the first things I noticed.
       | I must not be alone on this lol
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Thank you! The night before launching the original Jmail we had
         | this hunch that jump-straight-to-end and "random page" would
         | make the site work for people.
        
       | anjel wrote:
       | Way better than the DOJ UI but a pity the photo captions got
       | stripped away
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | what photo captions?
         | 
         | are you talking about OpenGraph metadata or something else that
         | we can fix?
        
       | ned_roberts wrote:
       | Search for "LSJ": Little Saint James, his island.
        
       | tonymet wrote:
       | Because of JDate it took a minute to realize JMail stood for
       | Jeffrey
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | You made me imagine an alternate universe where there is a
         | Jeffrey programming language and the man is named Java Epstein.
        
       | 20k wrote:
       | Great project, thanks for building it
       | 
       | >i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is
       | trump.. virignia spent hours at my house with him,, he has never
       | once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there
       | 
       | Hooo boy
        
       | gosub100 wrote:
       | Lots of Bill Gates involvement, and Sergey Brin.
        
       | dabluecaboose wrote:
       | Hey OP, just FYI "in lieu of" means "instead of".
       | 
       | You probably meant to use "in light of"
        
         | OJFord wrote:
         | In the absence of
        
       | B1FF_PSUVM wrote:
       | The flight log data + visualizer is interesting. Apparently not
       | into crossing the equator ...
       | 
       | P.S. feel like a private eye perusing the Amazon purchases.
       | Nabokov and Nietzsche, oh my.
        
       | dash2 wrote:
       | Even just setting aside the criminal/salacious side... it is just
       | so interesting to see the connections between the elite. Steve
       | Bannon photographed chilling with Noam Chomsky, such a surprise.
       | God, and Robert Trivers is in there too, eeh.
        
         | unreal6 wrote:
         | Bannon for a while was deeply ingrained in Hollywood. He still
         | earns residuals on episodes of Seinfeld [0], and owns the film
         | rights to Michael Lewis' Liars Poker (even supposedly writing a
         | screenplay for it himself) [1].
         | 
         | [0]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Media_and_investi...
         | 
         | [1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/steve-
         | ba...
        
           | sigwinch wrote:
           | He was very close to Epstein. So far as I know, the only
           | mention of Bannon at Turning Point USA was a call to release
           | the 12-15 hours of taped media training he gave Epstein in
           | 2019.
        
         | el3ctron wrote:
         | correct me please if i am missing something, but i read that
         | Chomsky messages and looks like normal conversations, i mean,
         | surely Epstein offered dark services for some guest, but not
         | for all. Even that conversations looks very smart. Social media
         | people moves in majority cases on morbid assumptions. Correct
         | me please if i am missing something, but Chomsky is a great
         | guy, an one of the greatest minds on earth.
        
           | tnecio wrote:
           | Well you might like Chomsky's ideas but can you say that you
           | _really_ know him? If no, then how can you be so sure of his
           | character? Even if he was not involved in any of Epstein 's
           | illegal activities, a leftist individual secretly hanging out
           | with billionaires on a secluded island is not a good look to
           | say the least
        
         | leonvoss wrote:
         | > it is just so interesting to see the connections between the
         | elite.
         | 
         | Did you imagine rich and successful, high status people hang
         | out with random wage workers they find in a bar somewhere in
         | the midwest?
        
       | dash2 wrote:
       | I would be interested to hear HN views on Richard Hanania's take
       | on Epstein: https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-inverted-
       | reality-of-eps....
        
         | thasFqr12 wrote:
         | Michael Tracey, who influenced Hanania, has been on a wild
         | crusade against all Epstein victims and has tried to discredit
         | them.
         | 
         | He also avoids all intelligence connections. He never asks why
         | Epstein got the job at Bear Stearns after leaving as a teacher
         | at an expensive private school where William Barr's father was
         | the headmaster.
         | 
         | He never publishes material like the officially released
         | birthday book entry from Eliot Wolk, trader at Bear Stearns,
         | who confirmed that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's father, had an
         | account at Bear Stearns and who teased Epstein about knowing
         | teenage Ghislaine.
         | 
         | So it is now _officially_ confirmed that Epstein knew Robert
         | and Ghislaine much earlier than previously known. And that he
         | knew Robert in the Iran Contra years where Robert was dealing
         | with Adnan Khashoggi.
         | 
         | Tracey and Hanania are doing extremely poor journalistic work
         | here by just focusing on the subset of Epstein victims that
         | were over 18 and took money for the services.
         | 
         | Not reporting at all on the intelligence connections seems
         | suspect as well.
        
           | linhns wrote:
           | Tracey seems to me to be a dishonest broker that is paid to
           | promote anti-interventionist and related agenda
        
         | kg wrote:
         | "Especially since the MeToo era began, we're too credulous
         | about these things. So we have globs of money going to Epstein
         | accusers and their lawyers, while nothing has ever been proved
         | by the standards of the criminal justice system."
         | 
         | Feels like someone with an axe to grind over MeToo turning
         | Jeffrey Epstein of all people (???) into a martyr figure for
         | their pet issue. I don't know why someone would feel compelled
         | to defend him when he's not even alive to thank you for it. The
         | idea that vast amounts of evidence and accusations exist yet
         | nothing bad happened whatsoever is so wildly implausible that I
         | can't grasp the mindset that would lead to openly publishing
         | this perspective on Epstein. We found out from the most recent
         | disclosures that people reported Epstein's inappropriate
         | behavior to the FBI as early as _1996_ and it wasn 't
         | investigated. One need only look at the amount of detail on his
         | Wikipedia page (
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#First_criminal...
         | ) to get a sense of why accusations against him are at least
         | treated as credible.
         | 
         | I totally get _not finding this issue interesting_ or not
         | caring about what he did to his victims, though I can 't really
         | empathize with that position, I understand it. But writing like
         | Hanania's feels beyond the pale and unnecessary.
        
           | zzrrt wrote:
           | >> nothing has ever been proved by the standards of the
           | criminal justice system
           | 
           | This flabbergasted me at first. Admittedly I had to refresh
           | my memory that he died in jail _awaiting_ trial, but he was
           | still convicted once before that! The fact it was pre-MeToo
           | should make it more damning, per his logic. I guess he's
           | saying there were no convictions after he became infamous,
           | but there's a caveat that he died awaiting trial, and that
           | plus the prior conviction just makes this statement seem
           | disingenuous or sloppy at best.
        
           | runako wrote:
           | > nothing has ever been proved by the standards of the
           | criminal justice system
           | 
           | One of my #1 things about reading people's writing is that
           | while everybody is allowed to make mistakes, making this kind
           | of easily-verifiable falsehood a central plank of an argument
           | is discrediting. I honestly don't know why people keep
           | reading him. There are better thinkers and writers who will
           | also tell you that women and people of color are subhuman,
           | he's not the only outlet for that point of view if that's
           | what you're looking to read.
        
         | runako wrote:
         | Anyone who writes a newsletter and hosts a broadcast in defense
         | of Epstein's child sex trafficking ring probably should be
         | under some kind of enhanced scrutiny.
         | 
         | Please keep in mind that the Epstein case was argued in open
         | federal court, where he was found guilty and was sentenced.
         | When he died, there were further criminal proceedings pending
         | in two countries.
         | 
         | Hanania's habit of seeing everything in the binary of "woke" vs
         | "not woke" leads him to some incredibly questionable places, as
         | evidenced here. It's "woke" to believe that a convicted child
         | sex trafficker resumed his crimes when released from prison, so
         | Hanania is ideologically forced to take the opposite view that
         | the kerfuffle is mostly hysterics. I honestly don't know why
         | people read him, the quality of thinking and analysis is simply
         | not there. There are much better conservative writers out there
         | who are not currently apologizing for child rapists.
        
           | leonvoss wrote:
           | Epstein was definitely guilty of prostituting, at least for
           | himself, girls between 14 and 17 years old. I personally
           | think young women of that age should know better than to be
           | prostitutes for rich guys, and there's no evidence he ever
           | coerced them to do anything. He lured them purely with money
           | and promises of status. There is plenty of testimony of the
           | girls refusing to touch him and they leave, often with money
           | still in-hand and an offer to come back with more girls. They
           | should know they are themselves "child sex traffickers" if
           | they come back with their underaged friends, and they
           | themselves should have been prosecuted along with Epstein and
           | Maxwell.
        
             | runako wrote:
             | I am not a lawyer, but I am fairly confident that this is
             | not how the laws currently work.
        
               | leonvoss wrote:
               | Teenage girls cannot currently be charged with illegal
               | sex acts when they sleep with older men, but they can be
               | charged with "child sex trafficking" when they offend
               | against other teenage girls.
        
       | chirau wrote:
       | I clicked on attachments, then images. There are only 9 images in
       | this whole release?
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | weird -- there's thousands
         | 
         | we should bugfix
         | 
         | which url did you do that?
         | 
         | can you help repro?
        
         | tomtomtom777 wrote:
         | Instead of attachment, click on the second tab on top of the
         | screen.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Sorry about that. That Attachments tab shows you literal
         | attachments found in the .eml files from the YAHOO dataset. We
         | have released very few .emls that have attachments though.
         | Expect more and more over time.
         | 
         | Releasing YAHOO responsibly has been time consuming, and we're
         | relying on Drop Site to tackle the redactions. See this post
         | for context.
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347272
        
       | mrinfinite wrote:
       | Its cool to see the mail. I now think he did die absolutely.. i
       | had a suspicion he didnt.. but him and chomsky are fucking
       | retarded.. feels like scrolling through twitter for horrible
       | handles trying to sound smart and just lil bitches.. It makes me
       | happier that my work is not very smart, but compared to these
       | guys we arent that bad. I mean he was a geopolitical analyst. he
       | may have been book smart in some sense cause he ordered liebniz
       | at some pont.. but also just sounded like he was super high
       | (probably wasnt)... very surprsing..
        
       | SilentM68 wrote:
       | Hmm, no mention of BTC origins :(
        
       | gilfoyle_7 wrote:
       | cool stuff boys
        
       | joymonger wrote:
       | This is incredible. How are you hosting all this? There's got to
       | be considerable cost. Meanwhile, this is a genuinely great way to
       | browse through all these files. Seriously impressive work.
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | A lot of the files are hosted on Cloudflare so their $0 egress
         | cost helps a lot. Especially given that so many of the files
         | can be considered immutable assets, so we can configure
         | aggressive caching.
         | 
         | I know that Luke was working on stuff so as not to hit the
         | database as much, but I was in the middle of a flight as that
         | was happening so he'll have to come and provide more details.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Thank you!
         | 
         | The original site was on Railway and written in Pug! It crashed
         | after Riley's tweet first went viral, then Riley did the heroic
         | work of caching it all with Cloudflare after waking up to the
         | site being down. After millions of unique visitors we racked up
         | about $10 in costs.
         | 
         | This time we switched to Next.js 16 + Vercel, used Cloudflare
         | R2 for asset hosting, and used Neon as the db. R2 has free
         | egress, and Vercel + Next is cheap if cached correctly.
         | 
         | A special someone at Vercel gave us some tips on caching this
         | one earlier today. We started by just using unstable_cache all
         | over the place, and now we're migrating to ISR + full static
         | pre-generation of as many pages as we can via
         | generateStaticParams.
        
       | oneandonley1 wrote:
       | serch for lolli or cp smh this guy was trash
        
       | sans_souse wrote:
       | Anyone reading thru these and filtering out the promotion spam
       | should consider taking a look thru. All his Amazon orders, which
       | mostly are uninteresting sure, but scattered in there are books
       | and eBook purchases dealing with some relevant and interesting-
       | in-context topics.
       | 
       | Also, interesting that this one got by him (unopened, unread,
       | filtered from inbox) and the timing of it being near his final
       | arrest (coincidence, but still)
       | https://www.jmail.world/eml/0b80588f551f3d097695f1c9507b6572
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | We're also working to have a RAG system on Jemini so you can
         | talk to the files. many of the files have been embedded into
         | vectors thru turbopuffer.
        
           | koakuma-chan wrote:
           | RAG doesn't have to be vectors. You can also make a regular
           | full text search and it's gonna be RAG.
        
           | yakkomajuri wrote:
           | Will do a shameless plug here of Skald:
           | https://www.useskald.com/
           | 
           | You'll get the whole RAG/context layer going in an hour. Can
           | self-host too if you prefer.
           | 
           | This is really impressive btw!
        
         | johnisgood wrote:
         | https://www.jmail.world/thread/94b742a9202b9782dcfef7d2aaed1...
         | and this https://www.jmail.world/thread/3a2c95682ec730d0062d6d1
         | c5bcf5.... Why did he order these, for who?
         | 
         | He sure bought a lot of books. I found this that is not a book.
        
           | alkyon wrote:
           | Not surprisingly Lolita was one of them:
           | 
           | https://www.jmail.world/search?q=lolita
        
           | ricardo81 wrote:
           | >for who
           | 
           | Indeed. Though the high school uniform thing seems to be a
           | fairly mainstream fetish, with hormones raging at that time
           | in people's lives. But granted, if it's not for your partner
           | or (of age) mistress...
        
           | itsthecourier wrote:
           | wow great findings
        
         | konradb wrote:
         | A little while ago Bloomberg published a list of his books. I
         | created two lists on Goodreads containing these books, using
         | Bloomberg as a source.
         | 
         | 2007 -> 2017:
         | 
         | https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/237057.Epstein_s_Library...
         | 
         | 2018 -> 2019:
         | 
         | https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/237060.Epstein_s_Library...
         | 
         | You can only add 100 books in a Goodreads list so I had to
         | create two. In the lists I linked back to the original
         | Bloomberg article.
        
           | markus_zhang wrote:
           | Looks like he didn't order any CS books. Maybe someone should
           | recommend some to him /s
        
         | GuB-42 wrote:
         | Most of the Amazon orders look mundane, mostly books, what is
         | weird is the quantity. It looks like it is all impulse
         | purchases, and I guess that most of these will end up in the
         | trash once it arrives, if it isn't picked up by someone else
         | first.
         | 
         | I would have thought an quasi-billionaire like Epstein would
         | have a personal concierge do the purchases for him. I certainly
         | would if I was that rich. I would certainly not buy a shower
         | head, I would show my concierge a picture of the shower I want
         | and have him appoint a plumber so that I can have my shower the
         | way I want it when I come back the next day. What's the point
         | of being rich if that's to buy shower heads on Amazon?
        
           | dmos62 wrote:
           | His assistant may have used his account to place the order.
        
           | randerson wrote:
           | Plenty of wealthy people are bad at delegating. The part that
           | amazed me is him buying the cheap unpronounceable Amazon
           | brands for medical equipment, like "DEDAKJ Oxygen
           | Concentrator 2-9L/min Adjustable Portable Oxygen Machine for
           | Home and Travel Use". I would've thought a billionaire would
           | be surrounded by the best name brands in everything.
           | 
           | He also seemed bad at delegating his interior decorating to a
           | professional, judging by the photos of his island.
        
             | sans_souse wrote:
             | The breathing apparatus makes me think Dennis Hopper as
             | Frank in Blue Velvet. Chills.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Yes, shoutout to our friend Aidan Dunlap for making an entire
         | interface to see those Amazon orders! It's at
         | https://www.jmail.world/jamazon
         | 
         | Jmail is the only place to see those Amazon order emails by the
         | way! Those are from his Yahoo, which Bloomberg announced in
         | September but Drop Site News actually let us release this
         | month. It all came from https://ddosecrets.com/article/epstein-
         | emails (redactions of the full dataset still taking place)
        
           | sans_souse wrote:
           | Awesome work guys. I am envious of anyone involved in the
           | research (well besides those who are actually involved in the
           | discovery process, those people's lives are not fun right
           | now). If you're enlisting help please let me know! Keep up
           | the good work.
        
       | GaryBluto wrote:
       | This is incredibly fascinating, not just because of who he was
       | and the crimes he committed, but to see all this information on a
       | specific person in one place is surreal.
        
       | rc_kas wrote:
       | cody rudland is a hero
        
         | nervysnail wrote:
         | Good heroance.
        
       | romanleeb wrote:
       | amazing
        
       | wilgertvelinga wrote:
       | Never trust anyone with a network setup like this...
       | https://www.jmail.world/photos?photo=EFTA00002627-0
        
         | KellyCriterion wrote:
         | good catch! :-)
        
         | grepfru_it wrote:
         | I've seen that room before. I found it during an image search.
         | Either this image you are sharing is not really epsteins or the
         | image I found predated the catch of epsteins misdeeds. Or it's
         | AI/manipulation all the way down. Not sure what to think
         | anymore
        
           | gruez wrote:
           | >I've seen that room before. I found it during an image
           | search.
           | 
           | Source?
        
           | roryirvine wrote:
           | I mean, it links to the source: https://www.justice.gov/epste
           | in/files/DataSet%201/EFTA000026...
           | 
           | It looks pretty anonymous to me - a completely normal shoddy
           | comms rack from the early-mid 2000s. The only real
           | distinguishing feature is the fibre splice/breakout work
           | taped to a bit of plywood at a funny angle, but even that's
           | not so very out of the ordinary.
           | 
           | Perhaps you're confusing it with any of a hundred thousand
           | pictures of similar setups from that era?
        
             | grepfru_it wrote:
             | Nah fam. But considering what Epstein is guilty of I'm not
             | going back to search for it. I'm sure some image search
             | website can help you out
        
           | lukeigel wrote:
           | _Tons_ of this week 's DOJ drop is old photos. These photos
           | of his Upper East Side mansion and his Island estate are well
           | known
           | 
           | We found that Volume 2 and Volume 4 had the most never-
           | before-seen stuff.
           | 
           | https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-
           | set-2-f... https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-
           | disclosures/data-set-4-f...
           | 
           | Also, this morning they quietly released volumes 5-7. Will
           | have to find out how much of this is new.
        
           | Psillisp wrote:
           | Tinfoil! STAT!
        
         | doublerabbit wrote:
         | Probably goes with this six monitor setup.
         | 
         | https://assets.getkino.com/photos/EFTA00000016-0
        
       | blauditore wrote:
       | The "Quora Digest" email killed me.
       | 
       | Most of the mails read like fake ones from a video game. Maybe
       | it's because most of them were written by an older generation who
       | uses more classic letter-style writing.
        
       | wiether wrote:
       | As someone from the other side of the pond, I have to ask: what
       | do people expect from all of this?
       | 
       | It feels like this is a big smoke screen used by the current
       | admin, first to be reelected, and now to distract people from
       | what they are actually doing (like repeating they decreased drugs
       | price by 600%, that they ended dozens of wars while dropping
       | bombs daily all around the World...).
       | 
       | It also looks like it allows everyone to peek in other's people
       | lives, which feels quite disturbing. Sure, some of them were/are
       | terrible people. But there's also the victims here. Furthermore,
       | is it how justice should work? Share everything to the world, and
       | let everyone make their own judgement based on what they see?
       | 
       | Is there going to be some actual outcome? Both for the victims
       | and for their offenders?
       | 
       | Or is it just a show where everyone can see them as
       | detective/judge?
       | 
       | Just to add a bit more context: after years of trials, one of our
       | former President finally went to jail for a few weeks. And now,
       | they're invited by media all over the country so they can
       | complain about how unfair it was, they published a book about it,
       | sold in the tens of thousands, their son is the new TV's
       | favorite...
       | 
       | So I'm wondering: is it actual justice at work, or just a
       | distraction while nothing change and nobody is actually held
       | accountable?
        
         | foundddit wrote:
         | I think for the duration of this four year term, at the very
         | least, nothing will happen. But there's a bit of hope (possibly
         | cope) that if these people accept an election loss in 2028 and
         | voters keep this anger going, people involved may be charged
         | and imprisoned.
         | 
         | History shows that it never happens in America and politicians
         | always drop the "it's time for our nation to heal" line, but if
         | the pendulum swings as far in the other direction as it did in
         | the 2024 election, maybe things will be different. And the only
         | hope of that happening is for people to stay pissed.
         | 
         | One thing I will say is the outrage about this has lasted
         | longer than I initially imagined. America has had a lot of
         | "this controversy won't be forgotten!" stuff that nobody
         | remembers 2 months later. In contrast, I feel like this has
         | been steadily ramping up and maintaining some degree of inertia
         | for 2 years. Will it burn out by 2028? Honestly, I wouldn't be
         | surprised. It was washed out of the news by trans people
         | playing sports and that was somehow the biggest issue in the
         | world. 2028 will undoubtedly have some weird "problem" that we
         | can't yet imagine.
        
           | fifticon wrote:
           | as history has proceeded these past 10 years, I am pretty
           | confident american voters will have forgotten all about in
           | 2028, assuming they still get to vote by then. Right now, I
           | don't have faith in them to remember the purpose when they
           | reach for the toilet paper roll,once they grab it :-/
        
           | haritha-j wrote:
           | "accept election loss" is a wild string of words, but such
           | are th etimes we live in.
        
         | noman-land wrote:
         | There needs to be a RICO case on the entire criminal abuse
         | network which operated as an open secret for over three
         | decades.
         | 
         | Andrew Windsor needs to be extradited to the US and face trial.
         | 
         | We need a referendum about whether we want child rape to be a
         | tool of US policy. I say no.
        
           | wisty wrote:
           | I want to see a tax audit.
           | 
           | Epstein was running what he said was legal tax avoidance
           | system for his clients.
           | 
           | I'm not saying they were breaking any laws in it, but Epstein
           | is a dodgy guy (also he used to be involved in IIRC a Ponzi
           | scheme and was previously sacked from a big firm - red flags
           | galore with this guy) and the scheme worked off asset prices
           | and trusts.
           | 
           | If a bunch of billionaires could manipulate asset prices
           | (selling illiquid assets like mansions and artwork between
           | each other and their trusts) I suspect they could really
           | bring down their tax bills. This would be illegal (I think)
           | but you'd need to untangle a large web of transactions to
           | prove it.
        
             | SideburnsOfDoom wrote:
             | > I want to see a tax audit.
             | 
             | Yes. IMHO, the parts that they really don't want to come
             | out are the financial ties. It's the connections of money
             | (and power and influence) that is being covered up, more
             | then the child sex crimes that are now known.
        
           | jacquesm wrote:
           | > Andrew Windsor needs to be extradited to the US and face
           | trial.
           | 
           | Reciprocity is a thing...
        
             | mcny wrote:
             | Yes! I don't understand how any American can support this
             | kind of hypocrisy. For those who didn't know
             | 
             | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn
        
           | leonvoss wrote:
           | Epstein didn't rape any children, he had a harem of young
           | women. Some of the women were under 18, but all of them were
           | old enough to be held responsible for their part in the
           | crime, that is, being prostitutes. Many even have admitted to
           | comitting "child" sex trafficking by inviting girls from
           | their high schools to be prostitutes.
        
         | pjc50 wrote:
         | It's interesting to see where the "too famous to prosecute"
         | line lies. So far the highest profile casualty seems to have
         | been Prince Andrew - as a result of the files, and NOT as a
         | result of his actual court case with Virginia Giuffre, which he
         | settled before her suicide.
         | 
         | Maybe it's possible. Berlusconi was brought down by his habit
         | of young women eventually hitting one under 18.
        
           | Remdo wrote:
           | When Berlusconi died, the current Italian government declared
           | a national day of mourning broadcasted on national
           | television. Never went to prison, convicted only 1 time for
           | tax fraud, a lot of his quotes and videos are great source of
           | memes that make the younger generations laugh (owning the
           | Milan football helped him to be liked by younger people).
           | 
           | Please American people don't do the same mistakes as we did.
           | It's like watching a remake (or a parody) of the same horror
           | movie.
        
         | kitsune1 wrote:
         | The victims themselves were asking for the files to be fully
         | released so that their abusers are held accountable. This was a
         | big "fuck you" to the victims when everything of significance
         | was [REDACTED]
        
         | Remdo wrote:
         | The victims themselves want the files to be released. Also, we
         | all know how terrible politicians are, but the whole of public
         | opinion should be made aware of how low the bar is.
         | 
         | Do you know Berlusconi, from the Italian government? He was the
         | Italian version of Donald Trump, and he was involved in a lot
         | of scandals at the time, including being involved with the
         | mafia and, you guessed it, underage girls.
        
         | earlyreturns wrote:
         | Foreign governments running honeytrap operations on powerful
         | perverts like bill clinton is common knowledge amongst anyone
         | interested in knowing about such things, but some people think
         | it is a super big secret that needs to be revealed to the
         | masses. Thomas Massie for instance. I don't think it's
         | antisemitism but I'm pretty sure it's not because of a sudden
         | concern for teenage prostitution, which is a big ongoing
         | problem that could be addressed by legislators crafting policy
         | if they weren't so busy slinging mud at each other looking for
         | Epstein photos with their political opponents.
        
         | simgt wrote:
         | > Just to add a bit more context: after years of trials, one of
         | our former President finally went to jail for a few weeks. And
         | now, they're invited by media all over the country so they can
         | complain about how unfair it was, they published a book about
         | it, sold in the tens of thousands, their son is the new TV's
         | favorite...
         | 
         | Haha I was wondering where this other side of the pond was.
         | This leaves no doubt. Quelle indignite.
         | 
         | For others: it's Sarkozy they are referring to, who was
         | sentenced to 5 years of prison but spent only 20 days in it.
         | He's free until his next trial. For having colluded with
         | terrorists.
        
           | 9dev wrote:
           | Sarkozy is the whiniest bitch imaginable, and then he even
           | has the gall to write a book about his prison experience.
           | 
           | Someone wrote in Le Monde, "it's like a man writing a
           | feminist essay because he emptied the dish washer once", and
           | that sums it up pretty well.
        
           | lm28469 wrote:
           | Sarkozy is out because in France you're free until proven
           | guilty, unless you represent a risk to society or have a high
           | risk of fleeing, neither apply to him, hence he's free until
           | the final verdict
        
             | harvey9 wrote:
             | The other poster said sarkozy was sentenced to 5 years. How
             | was that not the result of having been found guilty? I
             | understand there are more trials to follow but do not see
             | why that would free him.
        
               | lm28469 wrote:
               | Because you can appeal a decision, and a verdict isn't
               | final until every legal options have been pursued, appeal
               | being one of them
               | 
               | It's simple really, but if course it's not as outrageous
               | and can't be used as rage bait
        
             | _heimdall wrote:
             | Wait, in France the sentencing is done before trial? Why
             | would he already be sentenced to 5 years without first
             | being tried or convicted?
        
               | atherton94027 wrote:
               | There was a special law (that his party voted for btw)
               | that added sentencing enhancements for the specific crime
               | he did iirc
        
               | immibis wrote:
               | It's surprisingly often the case that criminals assume
               | everyone else is doing what they're doing, and want harsh
               | punishments for it.
               | 
               | (see also: the rates of homosexuality among homophobes)
        
               | aquassaut wrote:
               | No, he was convicted, put in prison, appealed the verdict
               | and was released after 20 days waiting for the next trial
        
               | lm28469 wrote:
               | You can appeal, and until every legal options have been
               | pursued a verdict is not final. Since you're innocent
               | until proven guilty, and you cannot be guilty untill all
               | options have been pursued, you're free until the appeal
               | has been completed.
        
         | xandrius wrote:
         | I've had the same exact feeling for a while: several people
         | known to be in the files are not the purest people we know and
         | I'm not sure them being there will have any effect whatsoever.
         | Taking Trump, what would really change to his image? All his
         | supporters are already ok with the stuff he did/said and his
         | opponents are already against him.
         | 
         | All his political/business allies won't easily switch as they
         | stay his connections and money, not his clean image.
         | 
         | It just feels like a real-life reality show to keep the news
         | flowing and people just enough bewildered and curious to keep
         | coming back for more. Basically the perfect material for a
         | while.
         | 
         | Especially with all the hyper redacted parts, groups can start
         | literally reading between the lines and make unfounded
         | allegations to create even more clicks.
        
           | the_af wrote:
           | I think Trump being shown with underage girls (or irrefutably
           | implicated in pedophilia) would damage his reputation with
           | his MAGA fanbase. It's the one thing they won't forgive him
           | for, if enough evidence is provided. They already clashed
           | over this, with Trump lashing out against his supporters
           | because of this, seemingly the only crack in their
           | unflinching loyalty.
           | 
           | I think it's what happens when you cultivate a conspiratorial
           | fanbase: eventually the conspiracies will mention you.
        
             | zzrrt wrote:
             | I'm not so sure. After years of ignoring every other sign,
             | what would it take for them to believe? His suggestive
             | comments about his own daughter on multiple occasions, his
             | opinion of 12-year old Paris Hilton, his mentioning 12
             | years old as a limit with Howard Stern[1], turning up in
             | beauty pageant changing rooms, the "grab em by the p*ssy"
             | tape, the swerving between Epstein case is a hoax to frame
             | him vs. it's real but only implicates Democrats.
             | 
             | I think of JD Vance, when Trump's Epstein birthday card had
             | been described but not released, he scoffed they didn't
             | provide an image. Weeks later, we had an image released by
             | Congress, so then JD Vance tweaked his arguments a bit but
             | still denies basically everything. The evidence he
             | requested did not change his mind anyway. Trump's
             | supporters, for the most part, will say it's AI, faked
             | images, paid liars, mentally ill accusers, Trump haters,
             | fake news, Trump was only there to inform on Democrats,
             | it's not what it looks like, the media is lying about
             | girls' birthdates, etc etc before they'll ever admit he's a
             | sick man. If they wanted to believe that, the evidence is
             | already there.
             | 
             | Personally I have a fair amount of doubt that he has
             | committed a crime against a minor, but he is obviously
             | lecherous and well below the supposed moral sexual
             | standards of many of his supporters. It should not matter
             | to them whether a 60+ year old married man only peeks and
             | banters about young girls or if he has actually touched
             | them. If they're still around, it will take a lot to snap
             | them out of it.
             | 
             | [1] I know he didn't actually say that 13 is okay or
             | whatever, but what kind of pervert or fool jumps all the
             | way down to 12 when asked? Way below the lowest age of
             | consent in the States. This should be disqualifying on the
             | grounds of horrendously bad judgment to phrase it that way
             | in public, let alone what it may or may not reveal about
             | his criminality.
        
               | the_af wrote:
               | I agree many Trump supporters will be able to spin --
               | even if just to themselves -- any damning news no matter
               | what (especially in this age of easily spoofed photos and
               | videos) but still, puzzlingly enough, his voting fanbase
               | actually made the Epstein files a thing, so much that he
               | publicly lashed against them when they wouldn't let go.
               | It was the one crack in his armor, the only (mild)
               | falling out with them he's ever had. Do you remember
               | this?
               | 
               | I think Trump made the Epstein conspiracy such a thing,
               | it's now hard to disentangle from the minds of his MAGA
               | supporters. All it takes is for some of his political
               | rivals (from within the party) to fan the flames.
               | 
               | I'm not sure about what Trump actually did, and we have
               | no solid proof. I can only guess, judging from how the
               | man behaves, and his general attitudes toward lying and
               | women.
        
         | fifilura wrote:
         | > after years of trials, one of our former President finally
         | went to jail for a few weeks. And now, they're invited by media
         | all over the country so they can complain about how unfair it
         | was, they published a book about it, sold in the tens of
         | thousands, their son is the new TV's favorite..
         | 
         | Yeah this is insightful. Another dictator went to jail in 1920s
         | for staging a coup and used that time for writing his manifesto
         | and getting sympathy from his followers. Some times (often
         | these days) politics just lives on a plane outside the justice
         | system. And it is really creepy.
        
         | bromuro wrote:
         | Thanks for writing this. I also feel disturbing such morbid
         | outlook to someone's private digital life.
        
         | huntertwo wrote:
         | They are being forced to release the files by a new law passed
         | by congress. This is malicious compliance and they're not
         | actually releasing what they're supposed to be releasing.
         | 
         | Rich people are hiding their crimes against children with
         | corruption. This law seeks to reveal this corruption. Why is
         | that wrong?
        
           | ptoo wrote:
           | Exactly.
           | 
           | >Share everything to the world, and let everyone make their
           | own judgement based on what they see?
           | 
           | What's the alternative to this? They don't share all the
           | information with the world and we're expected to believe
           | their evaluation of the evidence?
        
             | jonp888 wrote:
             | There's the police and the criminal justice system for
             | that.
             | 
             | I suggest you post your e-mail login details and here and a
             | dump of the contents of your phone, then all of HN can all
             | check through and see what crimes you're guilty of.
             | 
             | I'm sure you'll say you haven't committed any crimes, but
             | why should we be expected to believe you if you don't share
             | all your information with the world?
        
               | huntertwo wrote:
               | When you sue someone, you can subpoena for evidence. Any
               | evidence from that presented to the court is then public
               | record. The police and criminal justice system doesn't
               | usually enforce privacy like that in criminal
               | proceedings.
               | 
               | Are you trying to say that these documents shouldn't be
               | public because it violates someone's right to privacy?
        
               | the_af wrote:
               | But there's no reasonable indication that the person
               | you're replying to has committed any crime, while there
               | _is_ evidence that some of the people on Epstein 's list,
               | including Trump, have committed crimes. In fact, Trump
               | made a big deal of asserting this, back when he didn't
               | expect this to blow back on him.
               | 
               | It's not the same to ask for public disclosure for people
               | likely to be involved in a crime, for which there is at
               | least some initial (albeit inconclusive) evidence than it
               | is to ask the same of a random person for which there is
               | no evidence at all.
        
               | Zigurd wrote:
               | This is all supposedly Epstein's property. Dead people
               | have a very short list of rights or things that resemble
               | rights that belong to their estate. Privacy and
               | protection from slander aren't among those rights. You
               | could argue that digging him up and gratuitously posting
               | pictures of a postmortem would violate the right to
               | dignity for corporeal remains. But apart from that, if
               | you emailed Jeffrey, he has no power to keep that
               | correspondence private.
        
               | sorokod wrote:
               | > There's the police and the criminal justice system for
               | that.
               | 
               | Well yes, however there was an orchestrated effort to
               | convince people that the system is not working. That
               | effort was successful enough to generate public interest
               | we observe now. Beyond morbid curiosity, there is a
               | belief that the exposure may force the system to do now
               | what it was supposed to do in the first place
        
               | runako wrote:
               | I would agree that anyone who is specifically named in an
               | Act of Congress requiring that to happen, which Act is
               | then duly signed into law[1], should release their
               | information. That doesn't currently apply to anyone other
               | than the late Jeffrey Epstein, so we are all good.
               | 
               | 1 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-
               | bill/4405
        
             | _heimdall wrote:
             | We have to believe their evaluation no matter what, they're
             | only releasing what they decide to release and can redact
             | along the way.
        
               | huntertwo wrote:
               | Only certain redactions are allowed under this law, so
               | it's not so cut and dry. There is an enforcement
               | mechanism, tbd if it actually gets used.
        
               | _heimdall wrote:
               | The public in this case is effectively a defense attorney
               | waiting for discovery - we only get what the other side
               | determined to be worth providing and catching them
               | breaking the law is extremely difficult.
        
               | huntertwo wrote:
               | Very true - the one caveat being that certain people know
               | of the existence of things that should be published -
               | lots of way to trip yourself up and get caught if you're
               | trying to conceal things or otherwise improperly redact
               | information.
        
               | Zigurd wrote:
               | The law specifies which redactions are legal. The
               | enforcement mechanism, IIRC, comes through obstruction.
        
               | goatlover wrote:
               | I certainly don't believe their evaluation.
        
         | tmoertel wrote:
         | Regarding this error:
         | 
         | > like repeating they decreased drugs price by 600%
         | 
         | The NYT and other media outlets like to point out that this
         | claim is mathematically impossible. However, "cut prices by
         | 600%" is understood perfectly well by most people (but not
         | pedants) to mean "we undid price hikes of 600%."
         | 
         | I suspect that this phrasing was chosen as a "wedge" to drive
         | home to the MAGA faithful that the news media is biased against
         | them.
        
           | kyle-rb wrote:
           | Does that logic apply only when the claimed cut is over 100%?
           | 
           | If I advertise that my store "cut prices by 50%" but the
           | prices are actually only 33% lower (which is the same as
           | undoing a 50% price hike), would it be pedantic to call me
           | out on my bullshit?
        
             | tmoertel wrote:
             | > Does that logic apply only when the claimed cut is over
             | 100%?
             | 
             | Yes, I'd say.
             | 
             | It's the same as the informal usage of "X times smaller" to
             | describe scaling by 1/X. The idiom generally isn't used
             | unless X > 1. (The exception might be when several values
             | of X are reported together. Then one might say "0.74 times
             | smaller" to maintain parallel form with nearby "4 times
             | smaller" and similar claims.)
        
               | DrammBA wrote:
               | You ignored the 2nd part of their message, imagine this:
               | 
               | > We cut prices by 50%! Before $30, now $20
               | 
               | Would it be pedantic to call that price cut bullshit?
        
               | tmoertel wrote:
               | Sorry, I thought that my answer to the second question
               | was implied by my answer to the first question.
               | 
               | To answer your question, no, it would not be pedantic to
               | question that claim. It conforms to no common usage that
               | I am aware of.
        
               | DrammBA wrote:
               | > It conforms to no common usage that I am aware of.
               | 
               | It conforms to:
               | 
               | > "cut prices by 600%" is understood perfectly well by
               | most people (but not pedants) to mean "we undid price
               | hikes of 600%."
        
         | blablabla123 wrote:
         | Yes I'm also watching with disbelief. Even more so since media
         | attention in the EU about it seems higher than in the US.
         | Although the recent trove I found especially disturbing.
         | 
         | I recently watched a documentary where elites from beginning of
         | the 20th century were also portrayed. Self-portrayed as
         | Philanthropists. Moral bankruptcy became obvious, although in
         | other manifestations such as shooting members of worker unions.
         | And the US government did something in form of the New Deal,
         | splitting monopolies and other policies.
         | 
         | In an optimistic scenario I'd expect something similar. New
         | ways to hold elites accountable and keeping extreme differences
         | in wealth in check.
        
         | tonymet wrote:
         | Decades of unresolved corruption scandals , finally a chance to
         | confirm what we suspected about sleazy and deplorable elites .
         | Slim chances, but what else do we have
        
         | yieldcrv wrote:
         | Sarkozy is free on appeal, not like he was pardoned or found
         | unaccountable
         | 
         | I think your underlying question comes down to a relationship
         | with the media, accountability and prosperity
         | 
         | By distraction, I think that's media driven, can be ignored.
         | State actions are transparent enough that you dont need the
         | media to tell you what to pay attention to
         | 
         | In some religious dogma, Prosperity is tied to good deeds,
         | conformity to what collaborative for society. With the expected
         | contrary being suffering.
         | 
         | Seen as "Prosperity Preaching" in Christianity, the concept of
         | karma outside of Abrahamic religions. This is a fiction that
         | has never matched the real world so once that expectation is
         | dropped it will be easier to navigate the world. There is no
         | relationship to financial reward from conformity to a social
         | collaborative behavior, in fact its mostly the opposite,
         | maximum extraction is a core tenant of our system and what is
         | incentivized. If the market is interested in something you can
         | earn from it
         | 
         | And this goes finally into the relationship with
         | accountability. The justice system acts on the rails of its own
         | mechanizations. Its a perversion to want that to include total
         | ostracization, total financial distress for an indeterminate
         | time, I actually dont know the limits of what people want. It
         | seems more so related to how it affects poorer people that way
         | while wealthier and savvier people are exempt from distress,
         | but it shouldnt be the case for poorer people either.
        
       | keepamovin wrote:
       | I understand the desire to make a suite of apps, and to create
       | something cool for people to play with. Is your motivation to
       | involve your creation with this topic specifically because you
       | desire to expose people doing bad things, for the righteousness
       | and morality of such?
       | 
       | Also, do you feel it's more important that the information simply
       | "gets out there" than there exist a coherent set of theses
       | addressing questions like: 1) what was the nature, scope and
       | purpose of the hustle Epstein was fronting/running? 2) Who
       | unequivocally did bad things related to this?
       | 
       | It's not an either or, but right now it appears the topic is data
       | without conclusion.
       | 
       | I think it would be interesting to target an AI at all the data
       | and have it devise a set of theses with support. My feeling is
       | the topic remains in a state of "100% data, 0% conclusions" -
       | which appears to be a way to sate public curiosity while avoiding
       | consequence.
        
         | dvrp wrote:
         | Jemini has access to the data to help make sense of it.
         | 
         | We are working on better embeddings including image embeddings.
        
       | EnPissant wrote:
       | Is this like JDate but for email?
        
       | KellyCriterion wrote:
       | Wow, you cloned GMail completely within a short timefram? It
       | looks more or less like the original Google product.
       | 
       | You could make a spinoff after this Epstein wave is gone: Use the
       | front end to build a commercially viable product! :-)
       | 
       | Thanks for the ton of work!
        
       | nee1r wrote:
       | being able to search through the files when they're purposefully
       | so obfuscated is great
        
       | wltr wrote:
       | Oh my, I think that's the most impressive work I've seen here on
       | the HN. Very well done! I hope the public would explore the whole
       | thing pretty quickly. Personally, I afraid they, the files, were
       | highly tampered with, so obviously a lot could be hidden. Yet,
       | still, that's an achievement we have this opportunity to explore
       | the whole thing, I guess. So this project is impressive in many
       | ways. I enjoyed exploring the interface, can't believe that's
       | just a clone, not a real Google product!
        
       | dostick wrote:
       | How can you post those emails and make a joke out of them - they
       | have this footer that clearly states that if you are not a
       | recipient you must delete the email immediately. Whole business
       | world have this footer for a reason, for situations like this, so
       | you can be sure your emails will not go public.
        
         | throwfaraway135 wrote:
         | Although in principle I agree with the sentiment, sometimes for
         | difficult illnesses we need to accept the side effects of the
         | cure.
        
       | tianqi wrote:
       | This project is truly next level rather fascinating. Particularly
       | intriguing is observing JEE's considerable interest regarding
       | human intelligence and artificial intelligence, engaging in
       | discussions on these matters with Chomsky and Marvin Minsky.
        
       | vigneshtd wrote:
       | this is so f cool ;)
        
       | yakkomajuri wrote:
       | Complete side note but anyone else bothered by how they type? I
       | guess email was being used much like texting here but still.
       | Seems it's not just Epstein either.
       | 
       | > Hi Jeffrey long time now hear don't sweat Patterson was with
       | trump last week small dinner he really would make a good
       | financial steward no agenda woody is busting his ass for him Rudy
       | too wiki leaks tonight on Hillary stopped caring fed wants to
       | raise I guess terrible luck brexit Deutschebank then probably
       | some terror thing smart to be out of it best jonathan
       | 
       | The above is from Jonathan Farkas
        
         | subdavis wrote:
         | Wild guess: some kind of elite status signaling. "no time for
         | punctuation im so busy very important u understand"
        
         | mr_mitm wrote:
         | I believe this is from people using some speech-to-text
         | mechanism who don't know or don't care that you can literally
         | spell out punctuation.
        
       | sprybear wrote:
       | impressive stuff
        
       | hn-acct wrote:
       | Why does this site work better on mobile than the real google
       | suite. Funny stuff
        
         | notyourwork wrote:
         | Scale of the data behind the service likely contributes. This
         | data is fixed. Therefore it's easily indexed once into a cache
         | or memory. Your Gmail is ever changing which results in some
         | lost optimization without dramatic cost increase.
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Thank you! I tried to optimize scrolling through the photos the
         | most. Avoided any virtualization library, used Cloudflare for
         | image transformations and for caching, etc. The masonry layout
         | and polish you see here is all
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=walz though
         | 
         | Specifically at https://www.jmail.world/photos
        
       | sali0 wrote:
       | Should have called it Blackmail
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Is this the public release, or did you filter it down further?
        
       | Pikamander2 wrote:
       | You might want to consider getting rid of the Google product
       | logos to avoid a cease-and-desist.
        
       | vldszn wrote:
       | Wow, that's impressive! Are you planning to open-source the
       | project? =)
        
         | lukeigel wrote:
         | Yes we'd love to. Letting the dust settle first
        
       | skilled wrote:
       | Not much to say other than that this is really impressive work.
       | Thanks for putting it all together!
        
       | Metacelsus wrote:
       | "LIVE! Melinda Gates on How Empowering Women Changes the World"
       | 
       | lol
        
       | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
       | Text-only, No Javascript:
       | 
       | https://www.jmail.world/api/emails.json
        
       | FilosofumRex wrote:
       | with Epstein and ilk outed, the real question is who'll (or has)
       | replace him?
       | 
       | My money is on Jared Kushner, as the front runner. He has access
       | via Trump, connected to Russian jew mafia via his dad, & trusted
       | by Mossad.
        
       | epsters wrote:
       | Searched 'Ehud Barak' in Jmail and the results were
       | disappointing. Which was odd because I recently read many
       | interesting revelations about their relationship and Epstein's
       | ties with Israel gleaned from emails between the two. The emails
       | apparently revealed Epstein's vital role in forging security
       | deals between Israel and the governments of Cote d'Ivore and
       | Mongolia; Others showed Epstein offering to connect Putin with
       | Ehud and trying to hatch a plot to replace Bashar-Al-Assad in
       | Syria with another pro-Russian dictator - but one who would be
       | pro-Israel also (it didn't pan out). And also emails showing
       | Epstein setting up an introduction between Ehud Barak and Peter
       | Thiel. Found none of this in the results.
       | 
       | Turns out most of the above revelations came from Ehud Barak's
       | own hacked email account which were recently leaked by Handala,
       | purportedly a pro-palestinian hacking group. None of the this
       | stuff was covered in any of the mainstream news- Not by NYT ,
       | BBC, CNN, nothing. Most of the journalistic coverage had been
       | from DropSite News. And what did The Guardian decide at the time
       | to focus on in it's featured story regarding Epstein? Noam
       | Chomsky.
       | 
       | That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about what
       | Jeffrey Epstein was about and the role of the Governments and
       | Media in all this. I don't believe the truth regarding Epstein
       | will come from the 'Epstein Files', the US government, its allies
       | or the mainstream western press. It will probably have to be from
       | hackers, whistleblowers or the victims willing to break their
       | confidentiality agreements. Or from any dead-mans-switches that
       | the feds haven't manage to find and neutralize.
       | 
       | https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/23/extended-courtship-linking...
       | 
       | https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ehud-barak-le...
       | 
       | https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/epstein-and-israel
        
       | sans_souse wrote:
       | Site is down for me?
        
       | worik wrote:
       | This is going to spin out of control for those desperate not to
       | have their details released
       | 
       | It was stupid to accept the gift of young women
       | 
       | Stupid to promise to release the data
       | 
       | Really stupid to partially release
       | 
       | Unfathomably stupid to then try and pull some back
       | 
       | The media smell blood in the water, this is going to be a feeding
       | frenzy
        
       | whoamii wrote:
       | Can you add a "Trash" folder with the documents that have been
       | unpublished?
        
       | yoan9224 wrote:
       | The cost optimization here is impressive - $10 for millions of
       | visitors using Next.js + Vercel + Cloudflare R2 (free egress).
       | 
       | I'm building an analytics SaaS with a similar stack and this
       | validates our architecture choices. A few questions:
       | 
       | 1. How are you handling ISR vs full static generation? You
       | mentioned migrating to generateStaticParams - did you pre-
       | generate all email pages or use on-demand ISR?
       | 
       | 2. Did you hit any Vercel function limits with the email
       | processing, or is everything cached aggressively enough that it
       | doesn't matter?
       | 
       | 3. R2's free egress is a game-changer - are you using
       | Cloudflare's image transformations or handling resizing client-
       | side?
       | 
       | The caching strategy here is the real MVP. Most people
       | underestimate how far good caching with Next.js can take you
       | before you need Redis or more complex infrastructure.
        
       | sporkxrocket wrote:
       | Jeffery Epstein: heyy it looks like your diet program has worked
       | 
       | Reid Hoffman: slow progress. planning to see you in August. Hope
       | you're well.
        
       | yboris wrote:
       | Also related: https://epstein-files-browser.vercel.app/ -
       | _Epstein Files Browser_ - an infinite scroll through all the
       | photos
        
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