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Joel Gross
Personal blog · joelx.com · on HN as joelxeconomicspoliticsculture
Joel Gross's personal blog at joelx.com covers economics, politics and culture. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 111 times, most often “Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Joel Gross's long-running personal blog (4,000+ posts since 2006) on business, patent trolls, regulation, selling a side project and health. Commenters link it as personal experience and support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Joelx.com is the official website of Joel Gross, CEO and Founder of Coalitiontechnologies.com.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-24
- Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-05
- /how-to-beat-a-patent-troll-in-east-texas/12013/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-26
What Hacker News says?
What do you think of my proposals to fight regulatory capture? https://joelx.com/how-to-beat-regulatory-capture/15780/
Comment linking /how-to-beat-regulatory-capture/15780/
on “It’s Time to Build”Submitted Why I Spent $100k to Fight a $10k Small Claims Lawsuit as a story · 130 points
HN discussionI was similarly attacked by a patent troll and was able to defeat them. My experience is chronicled here: https://joelx.com/how-to-beat-a-patent-troll-in-east-texas/1... The fundamental problem here is not patent trolls... It is the patent system itself. We either need a constitutional amendment limiting patent time periods to 3 or 7 years or just simply dissolve the patent system itself. The free market needs to be…
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on “Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit”Submitted Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air as a story · 96 points
HN discussionI am not a shill, I am a real person and here is my blog. https://joelx.com/
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on “We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood”Submitted VCs Are Destructive Predators as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI agree it sounds like an ad. A quick search found this however: https://joelx.com/how-to-beat-a-patent-troll-in-east-texas/1... which makes me think it's legit. Weird it's almost verbatim from the blog post, but hey why bother spending time on a new write-up I guess.
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on “A patent troll backs off”Submitted No Bailouts, Let Losers Fail as a story · 24 points
HN discussionhttps://joelx.com/google-discontinues-hangouts-on-air/15177/
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on “Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)”Submitted Criminalize Fake News as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://joelx.com/facebook-fined-while-murderers-go-free/151...
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on “FTC Imposes $5B Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook”Submitted Owning Your Own Home Is Even More Stupid Than Running Your Own Servers as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI built and sold my side project for 60% more... Write up here... https://joelx.com/how-i-built-sold-my-dropshipping-biz-for-1...
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on “I sold my side-project for $30k”Submitted Avoid VCs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThese attacks on tech companies are extremely disappointing. Candidates are too cowardly to go after true evil, such as the Chinese government torturing protestors. https://joelx.com/torture-in-hong-kong/15239/
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on “Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech”Submitted Police Torture Protestors in Hong Kong as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttps://joelx.com/
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on “Ask HN: Blogs about Being CTO/Head of/Lead Dev?”Submitted Evacuate Hong Kong as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttps://joelx.com/conversation-with-a-venture-capitalist/169...
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on “Pro rata is a bad term for founders”Submitted The Internet Is Now Terrifying as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDinosaur Jesus approves of this message. https://joelx.com/jesus-rode-dinosaurs/1056/
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on “Why don’t the French celebrate Lafayette?”Submitted Amazon Support vs Google Support as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI have had hip osteoarthritis for five years and have followed my plan here - https://joelx.com/joels-hip-osteoarthritis-diet-nutrition-pl... . I feel vastly better and can even ski now.
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on “Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis”Submitted Amazon black Friday deal the same price I paid a month ago as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI successfully fended off a patent troll a few years ago in the notorious Eastern District Court of Texas - https://joelx.com/how-to-beat-a-patent-troll-in-east-texas/
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on “Ask HN: First Steps with a Patent Troll?”Submitted Pay Mothers and Tie Increases to Child's Math Skills as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://joelx.com/farming-vs-service-businesses/
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on “A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving”Submitted Trump Shutdown Must End as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSocialism sounds like a feel-good Utopia, but this is how it always ends: https://joelx.com/every-one-of-the-worst-dictators-started-a...
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on “They're Giving People $12,000 to Do Nothing in New York”Submitted Self Ban Registry for Addictions as a story · 6 points
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