Jemini
AI
document search assistant
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
14 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 15 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 4 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful, well-made tool for accessing hard-to-parse public documents
From 4 comments
Great! This, along with Webb, the other Epstein AI tool, are amazing effort to find documents. The way you link to files instead of just outputing an answer is amazing. Great…
heisgone on HNFinally, this is a great use-case of vibe-coding: making hard to parse data accessible and understable for the public. Though it's unfortunate it appears not to be open-source.
mentalgear on HNThis is well made - is it open source?
ideashower on HNBrilliant. This is like the internet at its peak (to me) where it was all about building neat things and helping people. Just a bunch of engineers saying they are not planning to…
egonschiele on HN
Objections
LLM output may hallucinate and mislead about people
From 3 comments
This feels like an insanely bad idea.
krainboltgreene on HNIf it's using an LLM it'll make stuff up... about people and sex trafficking.
spankalee on HNthis ai is too much "aligned" to return anything of value, considering the content it has to look into and the questions it needs to answer.
hokkos on HN
Search returned wrong or missing results and server errors
From 3 comments
It failed to find a reference: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00174720.pdf Question: Does Blues Traveler appear in the Epstein files? Blues Traveler…
alhadrad on HNGetting 500s now: > The search failed because there was an internal server error (status 500) when trying to access the document search tool. The web search also did not return…
stevage on HNA few people i looked up and found in the dataset don't pop up in this. Don't want to mention who here of course... but the other people cc'ed in the particular emails i found do…
SpaceManNabs on HN
Requests
Make the project open source
From 3 comments
Is it possible to make jmail open source? Would love to contribute! e.g., the search functionality is quite poor with little filtering available. Jtube doesn't let you sort by…
upmind on HNFinally, this is a great use-case of vibe-coding: making hard to parse data accessible and understable for the public. Though it's unfortunate it appears not to be open-source.
mentalgear on HNThis is well made - is it open source?
ideashower on HN
Better search filtering and date-sorted threads
From 2 comments
Is it possible to make jmail open source? Would love to contribute! e.g., the search functionality is quite poor with little filtering available. Jtube doesn't let you sort by…
upmind on HNHey Luke, hijacking this: Are you planning to add date-sorted messages and deduplication/thread view at any point? I would love to help out, if needed.
rrr_oh_man on HN
Questions
How are LLM errors avoided in answers
From 1 comment
Interesting stuff! I'm also slowly diving into the whole Epstein thing, mainly focused on a human-curated wiki (at https://corroborators.wiki, still WIP obviously) and I've had…
embedding-shape on HN
Alternatives named
Webb, another Epstein AI tool
From 1 comment
Great! This, along with Webb, the other Epstein AI tool, are amazing effort to find documents. The way you link to files instead of just outputing an answer is amazing. Great…
heisgone on HN