Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderRead the SSH man pages every so often, even if you think you know how to use it. There's a lot of features in there. Don't miss the "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" in sshd's man page for the uber-cool "command='command'" options for authorized keys (restricts a given key to just be able to run a certain command, very useful). See also SSH's port forwarding, -D, learn how to use ssh-agent, and "man ssh_config".
There's a whole bunch of other characters you can call prefixed with the Tilde (~) as well. My favorite is often ~^Z (That's tilde+Control-Z), which puts the SSH session in the background and drops you back to the host machine. You can hit ~? for a list. One other very, very useful one is ~#, which lists all forwarded connections - if you've setup X11 Forwarding or any port forwarding it lists the details for you. Of course - if…
Why two identical stories in one day? What is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117376 ?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 334
- Total comments
- 142
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-04-27 | How to kill an unresponsive ssh sessionFirst breakout | ique | 122 | 32 |
| 2013-07-26 | How to kill an unresponsive SSH sessionBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | oarmstrong | 209 | 109 |
| 2016-02-17 | How to kill an unresponsive SSH session | andrelaszlo | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-02-18 | How to kill an unresponsive SSH session | andrelaszlo | 1 | 1 |