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Sometimes I see a post and immediately know it’s going to take over my day. I’ll probably spend at least three hours reading this and the linked wikipedia articles.

So many people get Occam’s razor wrong. I like the way you describe it as the least number of concepts and assumptions, rather than just “simplest”.

Hoare's Law of Large Programs: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

I often found when something involves an insanely large number or objects the 90–9–1 Principle holds true. But when things is smaller to medium size 80/20 can be used. But I still dont have a good / decent theory how to link the two together. I wonder if anyone has any materials on it.

To the author: "Download the PDF eBook" link

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/releases/download/v0....

is broken

To the author: Nice site. The very first link, https://effective-shell/, is broken.

I'd add Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Good collection. One rule I found missing is the Rule of Three: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog...

Please add

Jevons Paradox

Don't forget WET (write everything twice)