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holepunchto / hypershell

hypershell

Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer, authenticated, and end to end encrypted

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
254GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer, authenticated, and end to end encrypted

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-04-15 01:28:34 UTC to 2023-04-15 03:43:34 UTC.

0122023-04-15 01:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-15 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 15, 01:002023-04-15 02:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-15 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 15, 02:002023-04-15 03:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-15 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsApr 15, 03:00

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Apr 15, 01:002023-04-15 01:00:00 UTC2023-04-15 02:00:00 UTC110
Apr 15, 02:002023-04-15 02:00:00 UTC2023-04-15 03:00:00 UTC000
Apr 15, 03:002023-04-15 03:00:00 UTC2023-04-15 04:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Also having a hard time groking it, but from the README looks like maybe the equivalent to setting up a TOR node to front an ssh daemon and routing a shell through the onion network to get to a host behind a NAT. Edit: Ah yes, that appears to be exactly what they're doing. Looks like they're using a DHT for peer discovery and using nodes in the network as rendezvous points to get through NAT: https://github.com/holepunchto/hypershell/blob/main/lib/clie... The code is incredibly straightforward for what it is doing. Expected the ./lib folder to be a lot more intimidating.
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