Hack may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

  • Hack (Unix video game), a 1984 roguelike video game
  • .hack (video game series), a series of video games by the multimedia franchise .hack

Music

  • Hack (album), a 1990 album by Information Society

Film

  • Hack!, a 2007 film starring Danica McKellar
  • Hacked (film), a 2011 Bollywood thriller film
  • The Den (2013 film), a 2013 American film also known as Hacked

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Hack (comedy), a joke that is considered obvious, frequently used, or stolen
  • Hack (comics), a Marvel Comics Universe mutant character
  • Triple J Hack, an Australian current affairs radio program
  • Hack (TV series), an American television series
  • .hack, a Japanese multimedia franchise
  • Lifehacker, a weblog about life hacks and software

Computing

  • Hack (computer science), an inelegant but effective solution to a computing problem
  • Hack (computer security), to gain unauthorized access to computers and computer networks
  • Hack (programming language), a programming language developed by Meta
  • HACK (tag), a tag in a programming language comment warning about a workaround
  • Hack computer, a virtual computer described in the textbook The Elements of Computing Systems
  • Hack (typeface), an open source typeface designed for source code editing
  • Domain hack, a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name

Animals

  • Hack (falconry), training method for young falcons
  • Hack (horse), an animal used for pleasure riding, as well as the verb form (hacking, to hack) for the activity

Sports

  • Hack, a piece of equipment used for traction in the sport of curling
  • Hack, a goal in a game of hacky sack, or the footbag circle kicking game
  • Hack squat, a variant of the squat exercise

Transport

  • Hack, a motorcycle with a sidecar attached
  • Hack, an illegal taxicab operation
  • Hackney carriage, a London cab also known as a hack
  • Station hack or squadron hack, a utility aircraft assigned to an air station or squadron

Other uses

  • Hack (masonry), a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain
  • Hack (name), a surname, given name and nickname
  • Hack Circle, an amphitheatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, also known as Hack
  • Hack writer or hack, a writer or journalist who produces low-quality articles or books
  • Eduard Hackel (standard author abbreviation: Hack.) (1850–1926), Austrian botanist
  • Life hack, productivity techniques used by programmers to solve everyday problems
  • MIT hack, a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Political hack, a person who devotes him/herself to party-political machinations
  • Backslash, also known as hack
  • Hack watch, a mechanical watch that can have the second hand stopped by pulling the crown out

See also

  • Hacker (disambiguation)
  • Hacking (disambiguation)
  • Hacks (disambiguation)