the lifehacker effect 

It means having too much traffic on a web site due to its link being posted on lifehacker.com as a feature article, sometimes even causing the featured web site to go down.

I just visited the site, but it seems the lifehacker effect took off again!

the lifehacker effect by mish1234568 March 14, 2009

Lifehack 

A colloquial term for common sense that makes people feel good about their basic creativity, or lack thereof. Typically lifehacks are not all that helpful, they are simply advertised well so as to provide a false sense of improvement in the user's day to day operation.

"Check out these 7 lifehacks using only paper clips! #1: use them to hold your papers together!..."

Lifehack by Vibraslap_Guru February 25, 2017

Lifehacker 

One who practices lifehacking. See lifehack.

John Doe: I can turn the channel 2.5 seconds faster than before.

Jane Doe: You are such a lifehacker.

Lifehacker by Necronites February 6, 2012

lifehack 

A tool or technique that makes some aspect of one's life easier or more efficient.

Web sites now exist, where lifehacker (followers of the movement) can trade lifehacks - suggestions on how to reduce chaos and make their lives more enjoyable.

lifehack by JRob December 7, 2005

5 Minute Craft Lifehacks 

Something very stupid that is supposed to make things cheap and easy but just makes you seem like you're poor and a retard.

5 Minute Craft Lifehacks are so stupid, I did one of the pop-socket ones and my phone case melted.

5 Minute Craft Lifehacks by Ozzy The Gamer Dog June 4, 2021

LifeHackered 

When LifeHacker.com links to your website for an article, and your webhost can't handle the traffic. Common symtoms ... people visiting the page within hours of a Lifehacker posting generally see a poor performing website, or a message from the website host indicating that the site is unavailable due to exceeding traffic limitations.

Commenter 1: This is some website. It says it's down.
Commenter 2: Yeah, it's been Lifehackered. Check back in a day or 30.

LifeHackered by G33kSp3@k3r November 4, 2011

lifehack 

When you try to make a simple task easier to feel or to be different. And they generally don't work anyways.

The "peeling a banana from the bottom" LifeHack is no more difficult than peeling from the top. -MikeJ.

lifehack by The Great Gas Mask Man June 5, 2016