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Hack

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Hack may refer to:

Places

  • 8558 Hack, an asteroid
  • Mount Hack, a mountain in South Australia

People

  • Hack (name), a surname, given name and nickname

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

  • Hack (Unix video game), written in 1982
  • .hack (video game series), a four-game series for the PlayStation 2, by the multimedia franchise .hack

Music

  • Hack (album), a 1990 album by Information Society
  • Hack, an album by the Ed Kemper Trio

Film

  • Hack! (film), a 2007 film starring Danica McKellar
  • Hack Job , a 2011 American horror-thriller film
  • Hacked (film), a 2011 Bollywood thriller film

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Hack (comedy), a joke, or premise for a joke, that is considered obvious, frequently used, and/or stolen; also, a joke thief
  • Hack (comics), a Marvel Comics Universe mutant character
  • Hack (radio program), a current affairs program on Australian radio network Triple J
  • 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 break into computers and computer networks
  • Hack (programming language), a programming language developed by Facebook
  • Hack (typeface), an open source typeface designed for source code editing

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

Other uses

  • Hack (masonry), a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain
  • Backslash, also known as hack
  • 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
  • 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

See also

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