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Man convicted of child sex crime by added _ char "Fus Ro Dah" Skyrim username

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/how-a-single-underscore-led-to-an-innocent-halifax-man-s-conviction-9.7283149
11•walrus01•1h ago

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walrus01•57m ago
Note, the post title field isn't long enough, this is a skyrim themed username used on a 3rd party service. Not for the name used by character in Skyrim itself, which is not (without extensive and rare modding) a multiplayer game.
oriettaxx•50m ago
and these are called 'investigators'?
defrost•41m ago
Article Title: 'A subtle mistake': How a single underscore led to an innocent Halifax man's conviction
walrus01•32m ago
Correct, I might have broken the title description rule, but I think my description more accurately summarizes what happened. I don't think my title is biased one way or the other.
londons_explore•10m ago
Incompetence in the justice system is a good reason to keep all trackers on and privacy features off.

That gives you enough data to robustly say "look, I couldn't have been in this chat conversation, because here is my data from that day and you'll clearly see I was running a marathon".

I personally keep 24x7 audio recordings of my life to try to get ahead of false accusations.

Sharecoin – GPU fork of Bitcoin with a randomness beacon

https://github.com/TVHeroes/Sharecoin
1•TVHeroes•2m ago•0 comments

I'm Running a Programming Contest

https://eieio.games/blog/im-running-the-icfp-programming-contest/
1•signa11•3m ago•0 comments

The interesting part of an Agent Harness is what you add on top

https://www.martinrichards.me/post/whats_inside_the_harness/
1•3uler•4m ago•1 comments

Why a philosopher turned down Anthropic (AI industry asking the wrong questions)

https://www.ft.com/content/bdb3b820-905b-431e-82c0-386535755af1
1•bishopsmother•4m ago•0 comments

Memory Safety's Hardest Problem

https://matklad.github.io/2026/07/20/memory-safety-hardest-problem.html
1•miniBill•7m ago•0 comments

Continuation-Centric Computing with Arca

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi26/presentation/srivatsan
1•matt_d•8m ago•0 comments

Vortex – a Bluetooth-first alternative to KDE Connect

https://github.com/zoir-dev/vortex
1•zoyirjon•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Teach Me Something New

1•chistev•10m ago•1 comments

Trump lashes out at 'fake news' jokes about 2028 presidential run, in press gala

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260725-trump-lashes-out-at-fake-news-and-jokes-about-2028-...
1•JPLeRouzic•10m ago•0 comments

Attorney General Bonta Secures Deal Halting Warner Bros

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-secures-deal-halting-warner-bros-pa...
1•01-_-•11m ago•0 comments

Australia's Next Target in the War on Kids Online: Your VPN

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/australias-next-target-in-the-war-on-kids-online-your-vpn/
1•01-_-•11m ago•0 comments

Against Slop: An Interview with Meghan O'Gieblyn

https://substack.nybooks.com/p/against-slop-an-interview-with-meghan
1•Michelangelo11•13m ago•0 comments

QBE Build Script for Windows

https://codeberg.org/codemplasi/QBE-Compiler-Backend-for-windows
1•triilman•15m ago•1 comments

A Rubyist in Go Land: Your First Pokémon API Client

https://baweaver.com/writing/2026/07/24/a-rubyist-in-go-land-your-first-pokemon-api-client/
1•thunderbong•15m ago•0 comments

The Last Honest Movie Star [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1leVuo5M6w4
2•7777777phil•15m ago•0 comments

Amazon cuts some jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/amazon-lays-off-some-employees-in-its-agi-unit.html
5•mgh2•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TS Compiler Knowledge Graph reducing AI tokens about 90%

https://github.com/samchon/ttsc/tree/master/packages/graph
2•autobe•19m ago•0 comments

Canadian woman who was NATO intern arrested in Belgium on spying charge

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/canadian-woman-who-was-nato-intern-arrested-belgium-spying-ch...
3•doener•19m ago•0 comments

Rhythm 0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_0
2•hopelessluca•21m ago•0 comments

General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
4•ckastner•26m ago•0 comments

MouthPad is now available – control devices with your tongue [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xReyIF5pwRo
3•Barbing•29m ago•1 comments

Lucky 13 Starship sends out satellites and stays intact

https://cosmiclog.com/2026/07/24/lucky-13-starship-sends-out-satellites-and-stays-intact/
2•ColinWright•32m ago•1 comments

When Notion Becomes Too Much and Obsidian Not Enough

https://rizz.dev/blog/guides/notion-versus-obsidian
1•rizzdev•34m ago•0 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
2•matheusmoreira•37m ago•0 comments

Escaping the Sandbox

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/07/24/escaping-the-sandbox/
2•ColinWright•39m ago•0 comments

DOE Launching First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Initiative

https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/energy-department-announces-initiative-create-and-deploy-...
1•donutloop•41m ago•0 comments

Why Sodaslim Is Becoming a Popular Healthy Beverage

https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/sodaslim-releases-updated-2026-highlights-122400710...
1•marlonfoltz•41m ago•0 comments

MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

https://www.augmental.tech/
3•ZaninAndrea•41m ago•0 comments

Secretary Wright Announces First AI "Genesis Mission" Projects

https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-energy-chris-wright-announces-first-genesis-mission-pro...
3•donutloop•42m ago•0 comments

At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose

https://twitter.com/i/status/2080229375773941871
2•Michelangelo11•42m ago•0 comments