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84 mentions on Hacker News by 64 people: 7 stories, 77 comments · first 2012-04-02 · latest 2026-10-14

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  1. …and said, ok, yeah, Astra's right, ControlMaster seems maybe like a big no go, then never tried. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/24 I tend to have ~20+ tabs open and each one has it's own tmux session inside of it, with…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-10-14 · in Show HN: Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows support
  2. Would love to use Mosh but https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120 I acknowledge SSH auth requests with my security key backed ed25519-sk ssh key. Something that wasn't even on the radar back when they closed this ticket. (Just…
    comment by fignews · 2026-08-05 · in Mosh in a Lift (2012)
  3. …much about the SSH this app uses (Citadel) which uses NIOSSH under the hood. I prefer using Mosh ( https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh ) for mobile apps where connectivity is often spotty. Does NIOSSH use a model that accounts for that?
    comment by selfsimilar · 2026-07-23 · in Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone
  4. Mosh on server and client keeps the SSH connection going during suspension or network drops, etc. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
    comment by hopw_roewur_ne · 2026-01-16 · in Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
  5. …running a terminal multiplexer, the predictive system breaks the panes, which is distracting. [0]: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/98
    comment by espadrine · 2025-09-28 · in SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
  6. If you want keystroke latency to feel faster check out Mosh shell: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
    comment by varenc · 2025-09-28 · in SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
  7. …mature. There doesn't seem to be a clear all-in-one successor fork taking the reins either. E.g. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1339 , as a random sample.
    comment by zamadatix · 2025-09-28 · in SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
  8. …not natively support agent forwarding similar to ssh. Creator of Mosh explained why in this comment https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120#issuecomment...
    comment by pss314 · 2025-08-28 · in Mosh Mobile Shell
  9. …width computation a lot, but macOS `wcwidth` still follows the old algorithm. Let's patch it: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/1289 - There is no support for strike-through and dimmed styles. Let's patch it:…
    comment by watusername · 2025-08-28 · in Mosh Mobile Shell
  10. …but the issue for OSC 52 support for clipboard syncing is marked as `Open` in the Mosh repo https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/637
    comment by robenkleene · 2025-08-28 · in Mosh Mobile Shell
  11. …pretty awesome for latent mobile connections (read as: throttled 2G @16kBit/s with interruptions). https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
    comment by cookiengineer · 2024-06-13 · in Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
  12. …used to use mosh, but the lack of support for scrollback in mosh eventually made me give up on it. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/122 I’ve been happy running ssh over Wireguard instead. Not just as a replacement for mosh but…
    comment by codetrotter · 2024-05-28 · in Run VSCode and terminal on any iOS device
  13. …stream of Unicode Scalar Values ( https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/ch03.pdf#P.12... ; https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/src/termina... ). - Second step is "parsing" the scalar values by running them through the…
    comment by keithwinstein · 2023-11-10 · in Write your own terminal
  14. …if there was a well audited SSH implementation beneath the hole punching and rendezvous layer. [1] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
    comment by riedel · 2023-04-15 · in HyperShell: Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer
  15. the big missing piece for my development env is port forwarding https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
    comment by hayd · 2022-08-16 · in SSH tips and tricks
  16. …accumulating those 5 years of code changes that for some reason haven't been turned into a release: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/releases/tag/mosh-1.3.2... If anyone here is more knowledgeable, it'd be good to know why it's been…
    comment by dwrodri · 2022-08-16 · in SSH tips and tricks
  17. …build for i686 Ubuntu. (It wasn't caught by GitHub Actions because it only happens on 32-bit x86.) https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1174 for more. So I would say (a) OCB is widely used, at least by the ~million Mosh users on…
    comment by keithwinstein · 2022-07-06 · in OpenSSL Security Advisory
  18. Looks like it is based on the Mosh waiver https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/COPYING.iOS , which went in about ten years ago. Blink Shell (which is of course also GPL'd) uses the Mosh code and is available on the App Store.
    comment by geofft · 2022-05-15 · in KDE Connect Now Available on iOS
  19. …patch waited 7+ years in one form or another), but per https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/437299 → https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337 (2012), mosh does not yet officially support port forwarding, despite…
    comment by password4321 · 2022-02-11 · in SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
  20. …change. Turns out that it has been a github issue since 7 March 2012 with no progress or assignees: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/41 Anyone have a robust way of forwarding X11 from a Docker container from a remote host via…
    comment by vk6flab · 2021-11-03 · in SSH alternatives for mobile, low-latency or unreliable connections
  21. …the support for jumpbox/bastion pass through have been languishing even longer than that ( https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/696 )
    comment by kapilvt · 2021-11-02 · in SSH alternatives for mobile, low-latency or unreliable connections
  22. What bugs? Mosh isn’t a proof of concept. It’s a stable project. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
    comment by ViViDboarder · 2021-11-02 · in SSH alternatives for mobile, low-latency or unreliable connections
  23. No port forwarding though. Must use ssh https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
    comment by TomatoTomato · 2021-10-14 · in MoonHome: Remote Development Environment
  24. …and last time it was agent forwarding so got confused. There is another issue for port forwarding https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337 but no PR that I’m aware of. Regarding why it hasn’t been merged, there is a comment on the…
    comment by gnyman · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  25. …in it are fixed. The ones where half of my keyboard shortcuts were acting funny (something like https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1147 ), or garbage left from some other screens/commands ( https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issu…
    comment by WesolyKubeczek · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  26. > a PR with a long discussion https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/696 on why it's not merged I'm confused. I read the whole thing but couldn't find the specific reason for why it's not been merged. But I assume it's because of the…
    comment by codetrotter · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  27. …a fork with port forwarding support https://github.com/rinne/mosh and a PR with a long discussion https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/696 on why it's not merged you can compile them yourself or if you want to skip the step I recently…
    comment by gnyman · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  28. …and generates a header you can #include. And someone's opened a PR to mosh to integrate it: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/1143
    comment by faho · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  29. …highest OSS bounty I've ever seen https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4471419-ssh-port-forward... https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
    comment by d4l3k · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  30. …when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out". https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115
    comment by shp0ngle · 2021-08-12 · in Mosh: The Mobile Shell
  31. AIX 5.2? That was EOL 2008, it seems hardly worth warning about these days. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/156#issue-407789...
    comment by mkj · 2021-06-13 · in How to handle secrets on the command line
  32. Mosh is designed to only synchronize the last screen of changes and will never support scrolling. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/122#issuecomment... http://web.mit.edu/keithw/www/Winstein-Balakrishnan-Mosh.pdf (Section 6)
    comment by technosmurf · 2021-01-12 · in My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
  33. …an app you've received from the App Store. (At best you can use code with a specific waiver e.g. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/COPYING.iOS .) 2. It seems a tiny bit optimistic to expect a malicious government to abide by…
    comment by geofft · 2020-04-19 · in TracePrivately – open-source sample app using Apple's contact tracing framework
  34. …Some terminal apps interact with the system clipboard and mosh isnt forwarding this correctly. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/967
    comment by CJefferson · 2020-04-08 · in Mosh
  35. …has been an open issue/feature request since 2012[1] and even has a ~600 USD bounty on it[2]. [1] - https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337 [2] - https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4471419-ssh-port-forward...
    comment by nrmn · 2020-04-08 · in Mosh
  36. …support for copy & paste. Also, if you use mosh without tmux, you're missing out -- learn tmux. [1] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/1054
    comment by turdnagel · 2020-04-08 · in Mosh
  37. …does not handle packet loss or truncation [2]. Very sad, because the idea behind Mosh is great. 1: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/957 2: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/950
    comment by yc12340 · 2020-01-14 · in iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
  38. …user too. In mosh you can’t scroll backwards, due to how the implementation of mosh is made. See https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/774 and https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/122 This has annoyed me for a long time so I…
    comment by codetrotter · 2019-11-26 · in Eternal Terminal
  39. Reasonable question! (1) OCB has long had a patent grant for GPLed software ( https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/ocb-license... ), so the Rogaway patents were a non-issue even in 2011. (Of course there are other patents on…
    comment by keithwinstein · 2018-11-01 · in The OCB2 authenticated encryption scheme (ISO standard) has been broken
  40. …the reply to that tweet: mosh is using AES-OCB, but seems to be using OCB3 from what I can tell: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/944fd6c796338235c4...
    comment by kpcyrd · 2018-11-01 · in The OCB2 authenticated encryption scheme (ISO standard) has been broken
  41. I'm sure many people would appreciate that gesture https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
    comment by Xeoncross · 2018-06-27 · in The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
  42. …feature[2]. Just in case. [1] https://www.bountysource.com/issues/4471419-ssh-port-forward... [2] https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/337
    comment by nirv · 2017-11-26 · in A minimalist guide to tmux
  43. This has been an issue with Mosh for a long time, finally one solution has appeared. Mosh Issue: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120
    comment by zkanda · 2017-11-09 · in Guardian Agent: secure agent forwarding for Mosh or SSH
  44. …waiver of anything in the GPLv3 that might possibly conflict with iOS App Store requirements? https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/COPYING.iOS It's a pain to get mosh support in closed-source iOS apps, but I think that's a good…
    comment by geofft · 2017-06-26 · in Eternal Terminal: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient
  45. …maintainers don't care enough to merge working code for an oft-requested feature. PRs: Most recent: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/696 Oldest: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/423 https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pul…
    comment by jitl · 2017-04-30 · in Mosh v1.3 Released
  46. Here's the upstream issue: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/649 Looks like it's a desired feature, but just requires some work (in part around parsing the extended escape sequences correctly).
    comment by geofft · 2017-04-29 · in Mosh v1.3 Released
  47. SSH Agent forwarding issue >5years old now. :( https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120
    comment by jiqiren · 2017-04-29 · in Mosh v1.3 Released
  48. A better way of solving it is to resolve the issue i raised: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/285
    comment by Daviey · 2016-09-05 · in Mosh: the mobile shell
  49. …bit of kit, but totally unusable for me because of a lack of agent fowarding support[1]. :( 1: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120
    comment by shocks · 2016-09-05 · in Mosh: the mobile shell
  50. > This seems less straightforward than what e.g. Mosh has. https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/COPYING.iOS From my perspective as a developer, that is quite scary. While I love mosh, I don't trust anyone in this world enough…
    comment by cyphar · 2016-06-14 · in License update