Hacker Blogs
Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #13757

G

Greg Herlein

Personal blog · blog.herlein.com · on HN as gherleinprogrammingcareer

Greg Herlein's personal blog at blog.herlein.com covers programming and career. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “My Email Privacy is Worth more than $36 per year”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
75mentions?
5HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 20 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment mentions his post offering a Linux notebook for sale, pointing to the author as a seller. It says nothing about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Building tech, and teams that build tech. Software, cloud, electronics, whatever.

The author on HN?

gherlein · 287 karma · member since 2008

Technology leader, thinker, maker. Based in San Francisco. Manager by day, still an old-school builder by night. https://blog.herlein.com/ and https://emergingrobotics.ai/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. My Email Privacy is Worth more than $36 per year
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-06
  2. It Was the Harness, Not the Model
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-22
  3. Career Isn't Eroding – You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. gherlein · 2026-06-08
    My public blog response to this - and others saying the same thing - https://blog.herlein.com/post/domain-plus-software-superpowe... - Stop mourning the moat you thought you had. You have a much better one. You just need to pick up the new tool and start using it like it belongs in your hand.

    Comment linking /post/domain-plus-software-superpower/

    on “LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do”
  2. gherlein · 2010-11-06

    Submitted Oracle is the Borg: Enterprise Software Development Will Be Assimilated as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. gherlein · 2026-01-15
    https://blog.herlein.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  4. gherlein · 2010-10-11

    Submitted Why is APC So Lame? as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. phlux · 2011-02-09
    Oh - also Greg Herlein is selling a decent one: http://blog.herlein.com/2011/02/selling-my-linux-notebook/ he's on HN as Herlein I think...

    Comment linking /2011/02/selling-my-linux-notebook/

    on “My laptop died yesterday, recommendations?”
  6. gherlein · 2026-09-18

    Submitted Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  7. gherlein · 2023-07-05
    https://blog.herlein.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  8. gherlein · 2011-05-05

    Submitted Open Letter to PayPal: Do the Right Thing as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  9. gherlein · 2011-01-24

    Submitted End of an Era: No Linux Desktop at Home (after 17 years) as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  10. gherlein · 2011-02-06

    Submitted My Email Privacy is Worth more than $36 per year as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. gherlein · 2009-09-10

    Submitted Why is the Android Telephony API so limited (closed)? as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  12. gherlein · 2012-01-04

    Submitted Simple iOS Key Value Observing (KVO) Explained as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  13. gherlein · 2010-11-07

    Submitted Ubuntu - Brave New World? Or Jumping off a Cliff? as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  14. gherlein · 2013-01-16

    Submitted Using Private Cocoapods for managing iOS libraries as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. gherlein · 2012-09-21

    Submitted End of the Manned Spaceflight Era? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. gherlein · 2010-01-19

    Submitted Why I Think the iPhone is Doomed as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. speckx · 2026-06-09

    Submitted Career Isn't Eroding – You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. gherlein · 2012-09-17

    Submitted XBox Live – Worst Software Ever? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. gherlein · 2011-01-22

    Submitted Android's Death Warrant Might Be Good for Open Source as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. gherlein · 2010-10-16

    Submitted Java is the New Cobol, and how you will 'talk' to Oracle Databases as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. gherlein · 2010-10-12

    Submitted Loving T-Mobile Customer Service - so much better than AT&T as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. gherlein · 2010-04-21

    Submitted Is Steve Jobs Afriad of Android? And a Bigger Question as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. gherlein · 2010-02-05

    Submitted Apple Has Gone Too Far as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. gherlein · 2010-01-30

    Submitted The iPad is Bad for the Consumer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. gherlein · 2009-09-16

    Submitted Blog: Who is your customer? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. aray07 · 2026-09-28

    Submitted It Was the Harness, Not the Model as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. gherlein · 2026-07-03

    Submitted Initial Reaction to "The Future of Software Development" TWSoftwareDev26 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. gherlein · 2026-06-28

    Submitted Software Taste vs. Slop in the Age of AI – TWSoftwareDev26 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. speckx · 2026-03-20

    Submitted Tooling Is the New Model as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. speckx · 2025-12-08

    Submitted Putting Claude in Container Jail: My Localdev Setup as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for blog.herlein.com