Hacker News: erreon

New comment by erreon in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

erreon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:18:54 +0000

I've been working on https://plantkeeper.co/

It started as a tool to help me figure out if I need to protect my plants or water them down here in New Orleans since we don't really have freezing season, but also have super hot days or rain issues.

New comment by erreon in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

erreon — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:52:14 +0000

Very interesting. Do you remember which source you got your hands on? I dabbled in CircleMud as someone else posted, but mostly Envy 2.0 or 2.2. I can't find those codebases quickly these days, but this is a link to a mud based on Envy 2.2 https://github.com/DikuMUDOmnibus/Ultra-Envy

New comment by erreon in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

erreon — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:29:43 +0000

I was raised on the internet and spent so much time playing MUDs which then got me to want to create my own and learn to code. I played Abandoned Reality http://abandoned.org/ and it was such an amazing experience learning to write and play pretend. My wife and I met playing Abandoned Reality and turned out only lived 45 minutes away from each other.

I hope a few people try it out and get hooked because of your post.

Texas Gun Dealers Draw Tech Crowd With Bitcoin

erreon — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:54:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/texas-gun-dealers-draw-tech-crowd-bitcoin-n65596

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7499298

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

LispCast Introduction to Clojure Videos

erreon — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 15:08:50 +0000

Article URL: http://videos.lispcast.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310651

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by erreon in "Kevin Rose Passed On Pinterest At A $5M Valuation"

erreon — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:52:51 +0000

Why wouldn't he be in the tech/startup press? He's usually in the middle of it in someway.

New comment by erreon in "Amazon caves in, will remove ads from Kindle Fire for $15 fee"

erreon — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:05:26 +0000

The product is discounted compared to other devices in it's range and they did that by showing ads on the lock screen that is often unused by users. In the past Amazon's kindle ads have been quite tasteful and non-intrusive.

New comment by erreon in "MiLifePlus: Bluetooth Health Sensor For iPhone and Android"

erreon — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:08:19 +0000

I came to say the same thing because things like "Click here for all the detials or to order" completely turned me off and made me think their mailing list got hacked and some new spam magnetic balance bracelet was being announced.

New comment by erreon in "Rick Santorum's Fake Donation Meter"

erreon — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:03:07 +0000

Though I have no idea how much has truly been donated to Rick Santorum, but I would bet that growing thermometer did help contribute to that. Perception is an incredibly strong tool that can be used to elicit reactions like donating "because everyone else seems to be". Sad that they're using such a tacky tactic.

New comment by erreon in "Aptera motors pulls the plug"

erreon — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:46:03 +0000

I hope that some of the tech will be sold, opened or some how fall into other peoples hands. They did a lot of neat things with their prototypes and I think there is a chance that it can still help.

New comment by erreon in "Louisiana Makes It Illegal To Use Cash For Secondhand Sales"

erreon — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:45:11 +0000

They cannot refuse you for BEING black, but they can refuse you for any other reason that isn't "protected".

New comment by erreon in "Steve Jobs has passed away."

erreon — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:03:12 +0000

Sad news about Steve Jobs, but I'm glad he's through the pain he must have been in. RIP

New comment by erreon in "Bank of America to charge monthly fee to debit card users"

erreon — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:15:20 +0000

I think BOFA and other major banks are hand feeding people to credit unions in droves. I went today and set up my account at RBFCU and I can't wait to get far away from BOFA. Both my parents and I were with them for 20+ years.

New comment by erreon in "The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell"

erreon — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:32:27 +0000

I don't really understand how it's creepy as hell. You volunteer information to it and it posts its. If you don't want people knowing when you are sick, broke a bone, or lost a loved one then I would think you don't post it to Facebook. This generation and even more surprisingly some out of generations of the past really want to share everything and this gives them that ability.

New comment by erreon in "College is a waste of time"

erreon — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:25:43 +0000

Does the education system in the US need to be changed? Absolutely 100% agree that it does. Do 18-19 year old people have the world figured out? Not by a long shot, but they sure think they do.

New comment by erreon in " 40% off at PragProg on Ruby and Rails titles"

erreon — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:04:36 +0000

I added Crafting Rails Applications by Jose Valim to my collection. I'm sure I'll love it.

New comment by erreon in "How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy"

erreon — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:24:55 +0000

Just out of curiosity where are you going to move your domains? I own just over 30 domains all at GoDaddy and I'd move them over the massive amounts of cross selling and insanely cluttered UI.

New comment by erreon in "YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate"

erreon — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:52:37 +0000

Being a Real Estate agent in Texas I'll be the first to say most "solutions" for agents suck. We've completely destroyed our reputation as agents (if there was much of one anyway) on Craigslist by flooding the different areas. Many agents lie or use old listings or data to do bait and switch type ads.

I haven't used this solution, but I hope it helps to thin out some of the crap that gets posted to craigslist. Something that'd be awesome is to have the software ping the IDX to make sure the property being posted is still available. If it's not then maybe have an extra dialog to be SURE the person wants to post the property.

New comment by erreon in "Groupon spends big on Superbowl commercials, but ads anger many viewers"

erreon — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:02:45 +0000

I think it was a smart move. In a few months no one will know why they know who Groupon is, but they'll absolute recognize the name because they were all pissed about how "insensitive" the commercials were.

New comment by erreon in "Appcelerator Acquires Aptana"

erreon — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:34:55 +0000

This should be awesome. I really enjoy Appcelerator's Titanium dev kit and I think it will really come to life with its own IDE/editor. Congrats to both companies it's a great buy.