[HN Gopher] Show HN: EpsteIn - Search the Epstein files for your...
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Show HN: EpsteIn - Search the Epstein files for your LinkedIn
connections
Author : cfinke
Score : 53 points
Date : 2026-02-04 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| vrn21 wrote:
| link not found btw
| FatherOfCurses wrote:
| Is your repo private?
| cfinke wrote:
| Weird, I set it to public an hour ago and it was private again.
| Fixed now.
| guessmyname wrote:
| The tool works by querying your contacts' names against
| https://analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v1/search?q={NAME}&index...
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| I'd hope anyone using this tool understands that names aren't
| unique. So if your mother's or father's name shows up in that
| API, it only means someone else out there has the same name.
| People who are into conspiracy theories tend to love software
| like this because it helps them force a preexisting narrative to
| fit their conclusions.
|
| Search for "John Smith" -
| https://analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v1/search?q=John+Smith&i...
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| Now search for "LoremIpsumDolor" (no spaces) -
| https://analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v1/search?q=LoremIpsumDo...
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| And, amusingly, "*** ***" (the author's name) appears 164 times -
| https://analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v1/search?q=Christopher+...
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| edit: I removed the author's name from this post, because the
| search results don't really prove anything. Their first name is
| extremely common in the United States and returns 166 matches on
| its own, and their last name returns around 1,000. That's exactly
| the point here: this API is doing basic name lookups, not
| confirming identities. Without additional identifiers (like
| location, email, phone number, or some kind of unique ID), these
| hits are essentially just name collisions and shouldn't be
| treated as meaningful evidence.
| cfinke wrote:
| The script searches using quoted names, while these examples
| all search with unquoted names, which will match either the
| first or last name.
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| Searching for my name in quotes (https://analytics.dugganusa.co
| m/api/v1/search?q=%22Christoph...) unsurprisingly results in
| zero hits.
| ben0x539 wrote:
| > edit: I removed the author's name from this post
|
| well, you didn't from the search query.
| saaaaaam wrote:
| Are we giving all our LinkedIn data to some random person? Nice
| try, Cambridge Analytica.
| kachapopopow wrote:
| you run it locally, the endpoint seems to just be a search
| engine
| saaaaaam wrote:
| Right, yes. I now realise I should probably have continued
| reading after "1. Go to linkedin.com and log in". But when I
| saw that I noped away.
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| Which shows the power of words. If it said "1. You will need
| a copy of your LinkedIn contacts to run this locally - here's
| how..." I would have had a very different opinion.
|
| You can vibe code almost anything, but you're unlikely be
| able to vibe code your way out of scaring people.
| wslh wrote:
| It seems like Epstein was connected to a lot of people around the
| world but not only on "layer 1" but many power layers. The
| Epstein case is an unique story with a lot of ramifications.
| sho_hn wrote:
| I would assume there are other Epsteins, I doubt it's unique.
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