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) This is a list of some of the major foes of the Marvel Comics superhero team, the X-Men. Central rogues' gallery Other recurring antagonists Teams See also * List of X-Men members The X-Men are a team of mutant superheroes, published i ...

, a Marvel Comics Universe mutant character * ''Hack'' (radio program), an Australian current affairs program * ''Hack'' (TV series), an American television series * .hack, a Japanese multimedia franchise *

Lifehacker ''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on 31 January 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is owned by Ziff Davis. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including Microsoft Windows, M ...

, a weblog about life hacks and software

Computing

Hack (computer science) A kludge or kluge () is a workaround or makeshift solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend, and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, e ...

, an inelegant but effective solution to a computing problem *

Hack (computer security) A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching or bypassing defenses and Exploit (computer security), exploiting weaknesses in a Computer, computer system or computer network, network. Hackers may be mo ...

, to gain unauthorized access to computers and computer networks *

Hack (programming language) Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), created by Meta Platforms, Meta (formerly Facebook) as a dialect of PHP. The language implementation is free and open-source software, licensed under an MIT License. Hack all ...

, a programming language developed by Meta * HACK (tag), a tag in a programming language comment warning about a workaround *

Hack computer The Hack computer is a theoretical computer design created by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken and described in their book, ''The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.'' In using the term “modern”, th ...

, a virtual computer described in the textbook ''The Elements of Computing Systems'' *

Hack (typeface) The DejaVu fonts are a superfamily of fonts designed for broad coverage of the Unicode Universal Character Set. The fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif), two fonts released by Bitstream under a free ...

, an open source typeface designed for source code editing *

Domain hack A domain hack is a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name when concatenating two or more adjacent levels of that domain. For example, and , using the domains ''.bot'' and ''.le'', suggest the words ''robot'' and ''example'' respective ...

, 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 Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...

* 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 A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, Scooter (motorcycle), scooter, or bicycle, making the whole a three-wheeled vehicle. The combination of a motorcycle with a sidecar is sometimes called a ''rig'', ''outfit' ...

attached * Hack, an

illegal taxicab operation Illegal taxicabs, sometimes known as pirate taxis, gypsy cabs, or jitney cabs, are taxis and other vehicles for hire that operate illegally because they do not have proper licenses, permits, registrations, and accreditations, safety inspections, v ...

Hackney carriage A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or taxi) is a carriage or car for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise. A symbol of London and Britain, the black taxi is a common sight on t ...

, a London cab also known as a hack *

Station hack A station hack (British English) or squadron hack (American English), is a utility aircraft assigned to an air station or squadron (that normally flies another type of aircraft in its role), and utilised for run-of-the-mill activities, including ...

or squadron hack, a utility aircraft assigned to an air station or squadron

Other uses

Hack (masonry) A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a unit primarily composed of clay. But is now also used informally to denote building un ...

, a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain *

Hack (name) Hack is a surname, given name, and nickname. Notable people with the name include: People with the surname * Alexander Hack (born 1993), German footballer * Dave Hack (born 1972), Canadian Football retired offensive lineman * Dorothy Weis ...

, a surname, given name and nickname *

Hack Circle The Hack Circle or Hack was a nickname given to an amphitheatre in central Christchurch, New Zealand.Chch emos have style, lack anguish ''The Press'' 21 October 2006 It was built as part of the second phase of developing a pedestrian mall in the ...

, an amphitheatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, also known as Hack *

Hack writer ''Hack writer'' is a pejorative term for a writer who is paid to write low-quality, rushed articles or books "to order", often with a short deadline. In fiction writing, a hack writer is paid to quickly write sensational, pulp fiction ''Pu ...

or hack, a writer or journalist who produces low-quality articles or books *

Eduard Hackel Eduard Hackel (17 March 1850 in Haida, Bohemia – 2 February 1926 in Attersee, Upper Austria) was an Austrian botanist. His father was a veterinarian in Haida (now Nový Bor) in Bohemia. He was married and had one son. Hackel studied at the P ...

(standard author abbreviation: Hack.) (1850–1926), Austrian botanist *

Life hack A life hack (or life hacking) is any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. The term was primarily used by computer experts who suffer from information overload or those with a p ...

, 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 The backslash is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash (punctuation), slash . It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, Escape c ...

, also known as hack