dwmkerr/hacker-laws
🧠 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns for developers and technologists.
289 best points · 339 comments · 36 Hacker News posts · 27,338 GitHub stars · View on GitHub
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- Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it (289 points, 153 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-02-17)
- Hacker Laws (270 points, 44 comments, by maltalex, 2022-01-01)
- Hacker Laws: Theories, principles and patterns that developers will find useful (203 points, 27 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-11-22)
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions (177 points, 102 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-05-14)
- Laws, theories, principles and patterns that developers might find useful (92 points, 10 comments, by signa11, 2019-11-04)
- Hacker Laws (14 points, 0 comments, by MakisH, 2021-10-01)
- Hacker Laws Update: The Fallacies of Distributed Computing (5 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-11-07)
- Hacker Laws Update: Occam's Razor (4 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-01-07)
- Hacker-laws: Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns developers will find useful (3 points, 0 comments, by yarapavan, 2019-05-14)
- Hacker Laws: Dunbar's Number (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-05-29)
- Hacker Laws (3 points, 0 comments, by sytelus, 2019-05-30)
- Gall's Law – “A complex system that works is invariably found to (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-07-08)
- The Dilbert Principle: Companies tend to systematically promote incompetent to (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-08-21)
- Hacker Laws Update – Reed's Law: The Utility of Large Networks (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-10-29)
- Hacker Laws Update: Metcalfe's Law (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-11-04)
- Hacker Laws: The 90-9-1 Principle (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-03-23)
- Hacker Laws – CAP Theorem / Brewer's Theorem (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-06-01)
- Hacker Laws – All models are wrong, but some are useful (3 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-09-23)
- Gall's Law (3 points, 1 comments, by noworriesnate, 2021-11-30)
- Hacker Laws (3 points, 1 comments, by atulatul, 2023-08-31)
- Hacker Laws (3 points, 0 comments, by Olshansky, 2023-09-02)
- List of hacker laws (a must-know for developers) (2 points, 0 comments, by lozzo, 2019-05-15)
- Hacker Laws – Fitts' Law (2 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-06-05)
- Hackerlaws – The Shirky Principle – Institutions try to preserve the problem (2 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-09-09)
- Hacker Laws – The Dunning Kruger Effect (2 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-12-03)
- Hacker Laws: The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule) (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-05-22)
- Hacker Laws Update: Hutber's Law – Improvement Means Deterioration (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-06-28)
- Hacker Laws Update: Murphy's Law / Sod's Law (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-07-22)
- Hacker Laws: People in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-08-13)
- Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-09-23)
- Hacker Laws Update – The Broken Windows Theory (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2019-12-10)
- Hacker Laws – Linus' Law (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-06-22)
- Hacker Laws – Chesterson's Fence (1 points, 0 comments, by dwmkerr, 2020-07-02)
- Hacker Laws (1 points, 0 comments, by maltalex, 2021-12-01)
- Hacker Laws (1 points, 0 comments, by ioxnav, 2024-07-12)
- Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug(2020) (1 points, 1 comments, by Willingham, 2025-02-15)