35 engineers on Hacker News describe using SSH first-hand: 8 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I've been using SSH tunnels for years, this keeps me safe and sane.”
endorse · personal · SpaceInvader · 2018-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a VPN over TCP ssh for a year. ... I get excellent bandwidth and no stalls.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · jacob019 · 2017-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remember we switched to ssh basically immediately.”
endorse · production · gumby · 2017-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“xterm+ssh is still the easiest way to get my UNIX work done”
endorse · personal · technofiend · 2016-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Why run any programming software on the chrome book? You can always just ssh into a box and do your dev there? I have been using that for years”
endorse · personal · treeform · 2015-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can Ssh in and do updates or make changes and it's way easier than remotely administering windows.”
endorse · personal · itsboring · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I decided to give Secure Shell a try, and I was impressed enough that I've been using the Chromebook all of the time.”
endorse · personal · MatthewPhillips · 2012-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work, we've run into a great deal of pain scripting ssh. For a one off job, I'd agree, but if you want something stable over time, well....”
regret · production · jwhitlark · 2010-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This means I can have secure private keys for ssh and gpg, which I can also back up.”
neutral · personal · jwr · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“perform the ssh login via fingerprint, and then tell claude”
neutral · personal · littlecranky67 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ghosty + ssh + mosh + tmux + claude code (sometimes codex) for a while now.”
neutral · personal · mkw5053 · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we just pulled from each other's machines. Directly over SSH.”
neutral · production · donatj · 2026-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we only deploy developer SSH keys to devices with DEV or QA firmware. Prod images are signed and have SSH entirely disabled.”
neutral · production · doawoo · 2025-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The server runs in a docker container which has an ssh server installed and running in the background.”
neutral · production · hauxir · 2024-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have solved crises at work with it and Termux by SSH:ing from my phone into a box”
neutral · production · cess11 · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was day dreaming of how cool that'd be to be able to ssh someplace from a phone via grps. I did it years later once”
neutral · personal · bbminner · 2024-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Reverse tunnel SSH was used for remote management. Once we replaced it with MQTT, we realized we could use it for IPC, too.”
neutral · production · anilakar · 2024-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated to a central server with a bare git repo over SSH”
neutral · production · donatj · 2024-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had SSH sessions in a QA lab persist as if nothing had happened after the connection between the endpoints was down for almost a week”
neutral · production · oxygen_crisis · 2024-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the latency going to Finland is brutal, even with mosh instead of ssh.”
neutral · personal · ellenhp · 2024-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would ssh in and use `say` to make it say strange things”
neutral · production · donatj · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“than four years of ssh+vim methods of installation/configuration.”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · Macha · 2018-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“makes me regret many years of SSHing to remote compute”
neutral · personal · gaius · 2018-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a number of us use it to address pain points around SSH. I keep this ... when I'm SSH'ing to a machine from a new one”
neutral · production · malgorithms · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“other than the occasional ssh into the office”
neutral · personal · vegabook · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It also ties into my existing setup for SSH, so that I can push and pull changes from a central server.”
neutral · personal · ansible · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have SSH into a server while away from a proper computer.”
neutral · personal · brdrak · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“use two-factor authentication along with a passphrase with ssh”
neutral · personal · jlgreco · 2012-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With the combination of ssh etc. We build a simple script that deploys takes mirror of the website and deploys it.”
neutral · production · fmavituna · 2012-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We give them our public SSH key, and we log in and rsync their data back to us.”
neutral · production · 6 yr · rsync · 2012-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd been using SSH port forwarding up to that point”
neutral · personal · christefano · 2010-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you still have to log into the box via ssh to run the client, but that doesn't seem too onerous.”
neutral · production · seldo · 2010-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For the past 4 or 5 years I've been using SSH tunneling.”
neutral · personal · 4 yr · carbon8 · 2010-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a SOCKS proxy over SSH for a while now, but I find it very slow, especially when loading a page”
neutral · personal · chaosmachine · 2010-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?