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⚡ A fast Git hook manager written in Rust, designed as a drop-in alternative to pre-commit, reimagined.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 6 stories, 4 comments · first 2025-09-09 · latest 2026-07-16

Mentions per year 10 mentions · busiest year 2025 (5)
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  1. …an idea is just bad. I learned the hard way the other day when I filed this PR against prek: https://github.com/j178/prek/pull/2302 My idea was bad. The implementation was meant to solve my problem. All it did was expose more problems and…
    comment by cadamsdotcom · 2026-07-16 · in The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
  2. Would need auto-fix & commit capabilities to really replace lefthook or lint-staged for me. https://github.com/j178/prek/issues/1051
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    Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
    story by fortuitous-frog · 2026-02-03 · 123 comments
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    PreK: Faster, dependency free drop-in alternative to pre-commit, built in Rust
    story by nateb2022 · 2026-01-19 · 0 comments
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    Better `pre-commit`, re-engineered in Rust
    story by vismit2000 · 2026-01-14 · 0 comments
  6. https://github.com/j178/prek
    comment by nikolay · 2025-11-14 · in Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust
  7. …very useful. I just switched to using prek as a much faster drop-in replacement for pre-commit https://github.com/j178/prek . Really like mise though, and just started using fnox yesterday.
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    Prek: Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust
    story by welovebunnies · 2025-10-06 · 2 comments
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    Prek – a faster, drop-in alternative to pre-commit (written in Rust)
    story by joshxa · 2025-09-15 · 0 comments
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    Rewrite the pre-commit with features requested from the community
    story by urcyanide · 2025-09-09 · 1 comment