# hk

5 Hacker News commenters recommended hk and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A fast, drop-in replacement for pre-commit that runs fixers in parallel and stays out of the way. One critic says it lacks pre-commit's out-of-the-box support.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, safe parallel fixers (2 comments): "hk uses read/write locks and other techniques like processing --diff output to safely run multiple fixers in parallel" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885490)) "pre-hooks manager that is actually fast and stays out of the way" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292215))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [pre-commit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pre-commit.md): 24 recommend
- [prek](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prek.md): 13 recommend
- [Lefthook](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lefthook.md): 7 recommend
- [Husky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/husky.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "hk", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hk/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).