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New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:15:21 +0000

not sure why you think it's intentional. But, created a github issue, and will work on that today/tonight.. yay GLM 5.1 :)

https://github.com/vidluther/pardonned/issues/23

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:01:24 +0000

that is in the works. Working on making sure the data of the pardons is correct first.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:59:30 +0000

i am calculating it if it's available in the sentence details. If the sentence details don't have a fine or restitution then we can't calculate it.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:37:31 +0000

Hmm, I see the issue.. The DOJ website lists all of Obama's as once, so I need to modify the parser.. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-bar...

Compare that to the other list. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-recipients

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:36:25 +0000

@nonameiguess I agree on the pardon buying, the reason why I started looking into building this was because of a video by Liz Oyer, who pointed out all the restitution and fines that were being forgiven under Trump.

That's kind of how I came upon the name for the site, I wanted to see if there is any truth to the rumors that people are selling and buying pardons. In order to investigate that, we needed a set of data to start from, in a manner that was easily queryable as opposed to what's on the DOJ website.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:10:57 +0000

I did not know that. Thanks for the lesson.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:03:42 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on that.. there's a lot of massaging/cross checking that still needs to be done. Right now the numbers are based purely on what the sentence is described on the DOJ website.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-don...

cmd-f trevor milton .. if the text for the sentence column doesn't say anything about a fine or restitution the system is not going to be able to figure that out.

The numbers for the prison time reduced is also technically incorrect, Ross Ulbricht, Rod Blagojevich and many others had already served many years in prison, so technically we should not count that as time reduced.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:35:06 +0000

A bunch of mass commutations have occurred under Obama, Biden, and most recently under Trump, I'm working on a comparison tool, so we can visualize the change in number of pardons by president, further breakdown of composition is an interesting idea as well.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:58 +0000

That disclaimer is there for now to make it clear that we're not showing that data yet. I need to figure out how to show the mass commutations done by Biden as well.

Working on a comparison tool, so we can see # of pardons over admins, it seems the number of pardons has been going up each administration.

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:29:44 +0000

So this was the first time (i think) anyone got a preemptive pardon, the actual warrant on the DOJ website says what it says.. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1385756/dl?inline

Will have to crunch through the offenses in the db and see if anything else like this shows up.

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

vidluther — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:19:25 +0000

https://pardonned.com

Inspired by the videos of Liz Oyer, I wanted to be able to verify her claims and just look up all the pardons more easily.

Tech Stack: Playwright - to sccrape the DOJ website SQLite - local database Astro 6 - Build out a static website from the sqlite db

All code is open source and available on Github.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960

Points: 167

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New comment by vidluther in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

vidluther — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:55:39 +0000

Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: N Technologies: AWS, Linux, NodeJS (Express, NestJS, Typescript, Javascript, React, NextJS, Supabase, MongoDB, Prisma) Résumé/CV: https://luther.io Email: little.log6946@vl361.com

Anthropic's AI Coding Study: How You Use AI Matters More Than Whether You Use It

vidluther — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:39:20 +0000

Article URL: https://luther.io/articles/personal-growth-in-the-age-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177317

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New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: I made a browser tab management plugin"

vidluther — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:48:56 +0000

Can you elaborate on who it helps and how? The screenshots aren't helpful.. perhaps a video of how you use it, and how it helps you?

New comment by vidluther in "Show HN: I made a GPT-powered job board"

vidluther — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 18:23:04 +0000

Hi, The site looks cool, but I'm curious what part of it is GPT-powered? In your video you said the job descriptions are summarized by ChatGPT, so is that the "What you'll do" part ?

New comment by vidluther in "GitHub issue - resolved"

vidluther — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:06:44 +0000

I feel like events like these are the new "compiling".. https://xkcd.com/303/

New comment by vidluther in "Sex offender can't get a job. Completely out of ideas. Help?"

vidluther — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:05:56 +0000

Learn the law in your state, figure out what forms you need to fill out yourself. I believe you file motions "pro se".

If you say you're as good as you are, figuring this stuff out for you should be easy, I understand the funk you're in.. but as you can see.. there are complete strangers rooting for you, and your family. Sometimes you just need to see things from a different perspective.

New comment by vidluther in "Sex offender can't get a job. Completely out of ideas. Help?"

vidluther — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 21:50:41 +0000

I'm sorry that you're going through this. Unfortunately, the system is rigged against you, even if you feel like you have been rehabilitated, done your time in prison, and paid your dues.

With that in mind, you may have to change careers, you're very fortunate that you're not still locked up, or civilly committed.. which happens quite a bit in TX. I'm not sure where in the USA you're located.. but have you considered talking to your local workforce commission? you may need to become a day laborer, a welder, and take on some dirty jobs, but you're not alone.. there are plenty of SO s that are gainfully employed.. they may not have the obligations you have, but they're making do. One of the hardest things for you will be the transition from white collar to blue collar.. it can be done.

And quit that crap about dying.. if you really mean it when you say you want to provide for your children, do it.. where there is a will, there is a way.. and all those other cliches.

It's not over for you just yet.

New comment by vidluther in "Pi-Hole vs. DNS Privacy"

vidluther — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:44:15 +0000

So.. are you saying that if you're following this guide here https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/ to use Pi-hole with DoH with Cloudflare, that because all requests are queried against Cloudflare, CF still knows what urls I'm looking for, and they can use this information to track me , or build a profile of me.

So, I need to figure out if I want to share my queries with my ISP or Cloudflare?

Using environment variables with Cloudflare workers, to generate dynamic HTML

vidluther — Mon, 30 May 2022 19:01:17 +0000

Article URL: https://luther.io/environment-variables-with-cloudflare-worker-sites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31562399

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