Hacker News: RobRivera

New comment by RobRivera in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

RobRivera — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:16:06 +0000

I am the greatest

Pirate hunter in the world.

New comment by RobRivera in "Doing nothing at work"

RobRivera — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:36:25 +0000

Aahhh.

Proactive vs reactive

New comment by RobRivera in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

RobRivera — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:25:30 +0000

Oh it was a downstream dependency. The tool worked, it was the downstream dependency. Glory to Arstotszka

New comment by RobRivera in "Bot vs human traffic"

RobRivera — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:44:32 +0000

>but I do worry about how many social bots are attempting to manipulate or mislead people.

You should browse reddit sometime. The easy ones to spot just autocreate accounts using the autoname at signup, which is of the formfactor [word1][word2]/d{4}

Regex nazis please spare me, I am doing my bestest

New comment by RobRivera in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

RobRivera — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:26:17 +0000

I enjoy reminding people the land acquisition history behind building Disney World.

New comment by RobRivera in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

RobRivera — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:25:20 +0000

You are not being curious or good faith here.

New comment by RobRivera in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

RobRivera — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:43:24 +0000

O ho ho - [hearty laugh]

New comment by RobRivera in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

RobRivera — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:46:11 +0000

Are we talking 0 or 1 based values? HONKHONK*

New comment by RobRivera in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

RobRivera — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:11:55 +0000

Florida is a purple state

New comment by RobRivera in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

RobRivera — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:56:33 +0000

>n64s greatest game.

HEY, it was a GREAT game, but GREATEST? COME ON, this ain't no goldeneye

New comment by RobRivera in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

RobRivera — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:49:53 +0000

I'd love to! I am currently more east coast based (NYC) and rotate into Seattle monthly, hence looking at it being more a 2027/2028 target. I can drop my email here

Robjrivera23 at gmails

I will have to check out that speech therapy game. Before I entered pilot training, I had received new fake teeth implants that introduced a lisp (new airflow) and as a 20yrold, had to go through speech therapy drills with a military doctor for a whole semester to get my qualification back. Jokes on me, cockpit wasnt for me haha.

New comment by RobRivera in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

RobRivera — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:25:07 +0000

You know what they say, you make money off people chasing alpha poorly (I say this. I am they)

New comment by RobRivera in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

RobRivera — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:00:55 +0000

I'll prospect that way, thank you for the insight. I have a unique background AND teaching experience (military leadership for my first career, and then taught as a full time visiting professor for 2 years) but having spent a decade in industry as a software engineer, yes I concur, teaching is not a common skill among the labor force (anecdotal ofc). I hope after I launch my first indie game I could knock on the doors of say Digipen or similar. Will see tho, thats more a 2027 thing.

What kind of PhD research did you do? I considered going back for a PhD program focusing on simulation as it relates to discoverability within AI research, but kept ruling out it was a bad career decision and should be left as a retirement thing

New comment by RobRivera in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

RobRivera — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:57:02 +0000

Yea, one cant go all in on performance, and then not co soder architecture.

A language choice is a starting point but you have to know the techniques of architecture learned.

New comment by RobRivera in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

RobRivera — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:17:22 +0000

What was your route to teaching like? I kinda am considering putting my hat in a similar ring on a part time, evening class type basis if I can get away with it.

New comment by RobRivera in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

RobRivera — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:15:34 +0000

I will admit, when it came to brainstorming sources of crashes with threads, AI has helped me find sources I hadn't considered (as a systems guy, multi threading real experience is something I am sprinting through)

New comment by RobRivera in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

RobRivera — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:57:08 +0000

My secret is out

New comment by RobRivera in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

RobRivera — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:11:20 +0000

Por que no los dos?

Eso mensaje de hijo de Carlos

New comment by RobRivera in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

RobRivera — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:06:37 +0000

Ejaculate you say

New comment by RobRivera in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

RobRivera — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:05:37 +0000

Right?! It would be nice if we had a centralized figure to hide me from such dangerous names and ideas, maybe have a blacklist!!