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!
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
Never trust anyone with a network setup like this... https://www.jmail.world/photos?photo=EFTA00002627-0
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
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.
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.
Why does this site work better on mobile than the real google suite. Funny stuff
Hey OP, just FYI "in lieu of" means "instead of".
You probably meant to use "in light of"
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
That's definitely more than 15 GB of free space given by Google! Great work!
Can you add a “Trash” folder with the documents that have been unpublished?
See also:
- JPhotos: https://www.jmail.world/photos
- JDrive: https://www.jmail.world/drive
- JAmazon: https://www.jmail.world/jamazon
It's great that you're passionate about due diligence in evaluating digital assets! It can be tricky to sift through the noise and find reliable information. From my experience, I’ve found that using tools like DREA (Digital Real Estate Analyzer) can really streamline the process, making it easier to assess potential investments. It's all about doing your homework and asking the right questions, right? Happy to exchange insights if you want!
Way better than the DOJ UI but a pity the photo captions got stripped away
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
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.
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.
I know I already made a comment but I am now going through the Amazon list and noticing some inaccuracies. Not rly sure if you guys care bc the point is to expose the things he was buying but I scrolled all the way back, saw the same inflatable pool toy twice, clicked on them, and realized one email was asking him if his purchase was good and the second was asking him to answer questions for other amazon buyers about the product. Neither actually show when the item arrived (though the first one does) and he didn't actually purchase it twice. I wonder if other issues are in there?
I also cant help but notice addresses in some. Did you check to make sure he was not sending any gifts to victims or did you just include them all?
.world domain is a perfectly fit for this project, love to see more power brokers' profile joining this Jmail world
Please make the zip files availible for all three dataset 8's!
The number of files on voidzilla's video is different than the number availible from all three on jmail.
There is no meaningful way in jmail for me to contrast the files to see what has been removed or added.
There is also no way to download all of them.
While I appreciate what you have made, it isnt useful for what I want to do, which is contrast the three versions of dataset 8.
It would be easier if you just made the zip files availible.
No shade to jmail, its a neat tool that tons of people find useful, myself included, just not me in this one scenario.
With the administration constantly wiping files and most likely also going back and releasing different versions of certain files do you plan on adding a "version history" feature to show the different versions of each file? A "trash bin" feature for Jmail and JDrive would also be pretty funny. Either way what you guys already created is impressive work!
What technical skills and tools have you deployed during this collaboration that would prove useful for journalists with nontechnical backgrounds?
As a freelance journalist, I have wasted time parsing through pdfs issued by governments or have wasted even more time analyzing and archiving social media ephemera. I would love to learn tech skills relevant to journalism, but don't know where to start.
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!
Some of these are wild. This one reads like him journaling on an acid trip:
24. questions = AI to the minus 1
If this was from 2025, I'd put his RADICAL BREAKTHROUGH down to spending too much time on ChatGPT.
https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019871?view=i...
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.
Jemini is such a nice touch
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.
Not much to say other than that this is really impressive work. Thanks for putting it all together!
Where did you get all the data? The justice.gov site didn’t have a mass download option that I could find.
You might want to consider getting rid of the Google product logos to avoid a cease-and-desist.
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.
https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026632?email=...
Nice using self-emails as a knowledge base.
Wow, that’s impressive! Are you planning to open-source the project? =)
Is this the public release, or did you filter it down further?
Wonder how much that Clinton in a blue dress painting will go for.
the J suite of products grows larger
Text-only, No Javascript:
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.
Coincidence that this release happens on the weekend before Christmas when everyone is busy and less likely to notice?
Jacebook! Wow - just wow
Shoot I wish I would've have known there was a collab, would've loved to participate in this.
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
Should have called it Blackmail
The back button doesn't work
I clicked on attachments, then images. There are only 9 images in this whole release?
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.
cody rudland is a hero
Site is down for me?
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.
Search for “LSJ”: Little Saint James, his island.
Lots of Bill Gates involvement, and Sergey Brin.
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.
being able to search through the files when they're purposefully so obfuscated is great
Is this like JDate but for email?
Hmm, no mention of BTC origins :(
Really cool!
Because of JDate it took a minute to realize JMail stood for Jeffrey
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....
Also related: https://epstein-files-browser.vercel.app/ - Epstein Files Browser - an infinite scroll through all the photos
cool stuff boys
this is amazing
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!
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...
impressive stuff
"LIVE! Melinda Gates on How Empowering Women Changes the World"
lol
amazing
this is so f cool ;)
Where is Trump ?
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.
serch for lolli or cp smh this guy was trash
Discussion (144 points, 29 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004118
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..
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.
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.