Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

 (epstein.trynia.ai)

79 points | by jellyotsiro 7 hours ago

12 comments

  • wartywhoa23 14 minutes ago
    The question is not how to analyze that, it's how to prosecute those who are above the law.
  • andy_ppp 2 hours ago
    I keep thinking that the lack of children’s faces in the blacked out rectangles make the files much less shocking. I wonder if AI could put back fake images to make clearer to people how sick all this is.
  • p0w3n3d 45 minutes ago
    No need to use Claude Sonnet here. Here's much cheaper solution in Python3:

      import sys
  import random
  import re
  
  print('> ',end='', flush=True)
  input_text = sys.stdin.readline().strip()
  
  text = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z ]', '', input_text)
  words = text.split()
  random.shuffle(words)
  
  mixed_words = []
  for word in words:
    n = random.randint(10, 500)
    mixed_words.append(word + ' ' + '' * n)
  
  print(' '.join(mixed_words))
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    • dmos62 20 minutes ago
      Ah, yes. Post is an LLM-something project: top comment is a general critique of LLMs. Waiting for this to get old. Meanwhile, at least you get points for being funny.
    • sebastiennight 27 minutes ago 

          > + '' * n
      This looks like what you'd get from using text-davinci-003 as the model in your AI-assisted IDE
  • iowemoretohim 4 hours ago
    Those are going to be some spicy hallucinations.
  • sschueller 1 hour ago
    Is it able to handle a much larger dataset? Only a tiny fraction of data has been release from what is looks like.
  • wutsthat4 5 hours ago
    And what did you learn?
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    • jellyotsiro 4 hours ago
      Trump famously told New York Magazine in 2002: "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

      Trump and Epstein were social acquaintances in Palm Beach and New York circles during the 1990s-early 2000s. They socialized together at Mar-a-Lago and other venues

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      • TowerTall 4 hours ago
        Interesting. It is my impression that almost everyone globally already knew this. What else did you learn?
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        • jellyotsiro 4 hours ago
          ill take like 1 hour in the evening to dive deeper, i was never familiar with epstein stuff until i built the agent to simplify things for me.
      • ishtanbul 4 hours ago
        This is one of the most widey quoted phrases by trump on the topic of epstein
    • subzero06 2 hours ago
      In 2024, Trump used Epstein's former private jet for campaign appearances
  • nubg 4 hours ago
    Does this work with vector embeddings?
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  • thecopy 54 minutes ago
    Reminder that only 1-2% of the files have been released.
  • tehjoker 5 hours ago
    This is a good idea. One thing I never understand about these kinds of projects though: why are the standard questions provided to the user as prompts never cached?
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    • jampekka 1 hour ago
      Outputs are usually generated with random sampling, so the same prompt may get different outputs.
    • jellyotsiro 4 hours ago
      oh forgot about it, thanks. just a funny project i build in couple hours so didnt really sweat haha
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      • tehjoker 4 hours ago
        This agent is really interesting! Learning a lot. Thanks!
  • dfxm12 4 hours ago
    can search the entire Epstein files

    It's worth noting that only about 1% of the files have been released, according to the DOJ.

    Of the released files, many have redactions.

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    • King-Aaron 2 hours ago
      If the Lake Michigan thing is just in the first 1%, then whatever's in the other 99% is going to be absolutely disgusting.
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    • jellyotsiro 4 hours ago
      sorry all publicly available files *
  • inquirerGeneral 17 minutes ago
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