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🧠 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns for developers and technologists.

58 mentions on Hacker News by 28 people: 36 stories, 22 comments · first 2019-05-14 · latest 2026-07-30

Mentions per year 58 mentions · busiest year 2019 (18)
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  1. ▲ 1
    Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug(2020)
    story by Willingham · 2025-02-15 · 1 comment
  2. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws
    story by ioxnav · 2024-07-12 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws
    story by Olshansky · 2023-09-02 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws
    story by atulatul · 2023-08-31 · 1 comment
  5. ▲ 270
    Hacker Laws
    story by maltalex · 2022-01-01 · 44 comments
  6. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws
    story by maltalex · 2021-12-01 · 0 comments
  7. ▲ 3
    Gall's Law
    story by noworriesnate · 2021-11-30 · 1 comment
  8. ▲ 14
    Hacker Laws
    story by MakisH · 2021-10-01 · 0 comments
  9. ▲ 2
    Hacker Laws – The Dunning Kruger Effect
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-12-03 · 0 comments
  10. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws – All models are wrong, but some are useful
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-09-23 · 0 comments
  11. ▲ 2
    Hackerlaws – The Shirky Principle – Institutions try to preserve the problem
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-09-09 · 0 comments
  12. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws – Chesterson's Fence
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-07-02 · 0 comments
  13. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws – Linus' Law
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-06-22 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 2
    Hacker Laws – Fitts' Law
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-06-05 · 0 comments
  15. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws – CAP Theorem / Brewer's Theorem
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-06-01 · 0 comments
  16. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws: The 90-9-1 Principle
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-03-23 · 0 comments
  17. ▲ 289
    Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-02-17 · 153 comments
  18. ▲ 4
    Hacker Laws Update: Occam's Razor
    story by dwmkerr · 2020-01-07 · 0 comments
  19. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws Update – The Broken Windows Theory
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-12-10 · 0 comments
  20. ▲ 203
    Hacker Laws: Theories, principles and patterns that developers will find useful
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-11-22 · 27 comments
  21. ▲ 5
    Hacker Laws Update: The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-11-07 · 0 comments
  22. ▲ 92
    Laws, theories, principles and patterns that developers might find useful
    story by signa11 · 2019-11-04 · 10 comments
  23. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws Update: Metcalfe's Law
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-11-04 · 0 comments
  24. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws Update – Reed's Law: The Utility of Large Networks
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-10-29 · 0 comments
  25. ▲ 1
    Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-09-23 · 0 comments
  26. ▲ 3
    The Dilbert Principle: Companies tend to systematically promote incompetent to
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-08-21 · 0 comments
  27. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws: People in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-08-13 · 0 comments
  28. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws Update: Murphy's Law / Sod's Law
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-07-22 · 0 comments
  29. ▲ 3
    Gall's Law – “A complex system that works is invariably found to
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-07-08 · 0 comments
  30. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws Update: Hutber's Law – Improvement Means Deterioration
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-06-28 · 0 comments
  31. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws
    story by sytelus · 2019-05-30 · 0 comments
  32. ▲ 3
    Hacker Laws: Dunbar's Number
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-05-29 · 0 comments
  33. ▲ 1
    Hacker Laws: The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-05-22 · 0 comments
  34. ▲ 2
    List of hacker laws (a must-know for developers)
    story by lozzo · 2019-05-15 · 0 comments
  35. ▲ 3
    Hacker-laws: Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns developers will find useful
    story by yarapavan · 2019-05-14 · 0 comments
  36. ▲ 177
    The Law of Leaky Abstractions
    story by dwmkerr · 2019-05-14 · 102 comments