Hacker News: RobRivera

New comment by RobRivera in "Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel"

RobRivera — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:30:23 +0000

Yea, I routinely receive giant tomes of meeting minutes littered with inaccuracies, and frankly, I find it unprofessional

New comment by RobRivera in "What Sun got wrong"

RobRivera — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:21:56 +0000

In jist 5 minutes waiting to deboard my plane, I strike gold in a short blogpost to go about reading more about the relevant histories mentioned in this blog.

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New comment by RobRivera in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

RobRivera — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:36:52 +0000

Tax man, funeral industry, late life casino runs, o o o o o o an investment in GVC gold

New comment by RobRivera in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"

RobRivera — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:28:34 +0000

Thats certainly a title

New comment by RobRivera in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

RobRivera — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:45:25 +0000

This is rad

New comment by RobRivera in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

RobRivera — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:44:59 +0000

[Desire to know more intensifies]

So if I wanted to create something that could reliably jostle and move in response to a master physics node, like a racetrack simulator, cabin simulator etc. What kind of distributed controller scheme we looking at? Master node with strong compute, hydraulics with microcontrollers type set up?

New comment by RobRivera in "25 years of mass surveillance is enough"

RobRivera — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:45:06 +0000

I disagree.

I would define confidently that Anti-American is aligned with Anti-Constitutional. By definition, it is this nation's founding document and treatise.

An the Supreme Court's ultimate role is to affirm or deny nebulous case law as aligned with the Constitution.

New comment by RobRivera in "25 years of mass surveillance is enough"

RobRivera — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:42:07 +0000

ACLU will have a field day.

New comment by RobRivera in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

RobRivera — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:54:33 +0000

New comment by RobRivera in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

RobRivera — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:45:34 +0000

Signals analysis is pretty refined and not THAT compute intense.

New comment by RobRivera in "I refuse to let SPICE die"

RobRivera — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:07:26 +0000

I am happy I am not alone in this

New comment by RobRivera in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

RobRivera — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:47:09 +0000

Well technically, all debts denominated in cash must be able to be settled with cash.

Companies simply get ahead of that law by refusing to provide the service or good.

Works in retail bc at the till they can just say 'no cash no business deal'

Doesn't work in other ventures so easily.

It is along the lines of 'we reserve the right to refuse business to anyone'

New comment by RobRivera in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"

RobRivera — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:16:21 +0000

You would enjoy the Always Sunny episode 'mental health day'

New comment by RobRivera in "San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art"

RobRivera — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:14:14 +0000

Morality is relative

New comment by RobRivera in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

RobRivera — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:51:46 +0000

This would explain why so many damn coffee shops dont deal with cash now - the double as a coffee shop and data reseller

New comment by RobRivera in "Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs"

RobRivera — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:57:01 +0000

Could have been a live-fire exercise by a nation state.

Edit: why the down vote? That is literally in the realm of possibility!

New comment by RobRivera in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

RobRivera — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:02:14 +0000

I never claimed as such

New comment by RobRivera in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

RobRivera — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:06:37 +0000

The main traffic ones yes. News and politics definitely.

Niche ones aren't as mucb thankfully.

A large volume of content is downstream recycling of the tiktok feeds

New comment by RobRivera in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

RobRivera — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:05:41 +0000

[Cry me a River]

No thank you

New comment by RobRivera in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

RobRivera — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:12:41 +0000

I was literally just ranting about this yesterday regarding a reddit thread where the astroturfing was so obviojs and it is frustrating to see, because a large chunk of the population is in fact influenced by it.