Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable
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·November 14, 2025garciasn
I would say these are 'tagged'; organized is a bit of a stretch, IMO.
This is some sort of searchable index that reminds me a lot of what the web was like prior to Google; the Altavista days. It's just a jumble of poorly formatted text that isn't really contextually aware and is largely useless for the volume of textual documents.
Then there's the whole 'I landed on an email that offers the text of an email that, I assume, the pertinent information is in the attachment listed, of which I cannot easily access.
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I'd be more interested to see how you enhance this in v2.
baby_souffle
> It's just a jumble of poorly formatted text that isn't really contextually aware and is largely useless for the volume of textual documents.
I did a quick spot check and the lack of _clear_ date field is going to make contextualizing a bit trickier. It looks like most of the `email` have them but other types like `report` may have an unknown "first, created/circulated internally" date and a broader "the public can see it" date.
Nevertheless, it's only a matter of time before this gets loaded into a graph DB so the context becomes more apparent similar to what the journalists did for the panama papers.
searchepstein
Thanks for your feedback. Agreed it's not perfect and can be improved. That said, I wanted to put it out there in case it did help someone, even in it's imperfect state.
Marked improvements incoming...
domainn
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WolfeReader
Nah, I won't go to Google unless you pay me.
wtfwhateven
Brand new account, nonsensical comment... spambot?
mtmail
What are you trying to say? It seems to be a brand new domain.
Hey all,
Throwaway in case this is assumed to be politcally motivated.
I spent some time organizing the Eptstein files to make transparency a little clearer. I need to tighten the data for organizations and people a bit more, but hopeful this is helpful in research in the interim.