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sshfs-win
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winfsp / sshfs-win

sshfs-win

SSHFS For Windows

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SSHFS For Windows

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HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-09-22 08:10:48 UTC to 2025-10-21 11:15:07 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Joel_Mckay·Oct 21, 2025
SSH File sync applications are reliable... Android: "Transfer Files To Computer, PC" ( Michal Bukáček includes GPL git URI, YMMV as we still need to audit it for traffic) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.fil... iPhone: PhotoSync is free to transfer movies and low-resolution images https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id41... MacOS: https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse/releases Windows 11: sshfs is slow, but allows user account constrained access to remote shares winget install -h -e --id "WinFsp.WinFsp" winget install -h -e --id "SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win" https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win Windows 11 system tray sshfs link manager: https://github.com/evsar3/sshfs-win-manager Windows 11: Local OpenSSH service setup https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat... If your home router is dy
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namic DNS only, the ISP will usually still support ports >1000: https://www.noip.com/ Or DIY with your own DNS solution with cloudflare: https://linuxconfig.org/automate-dynamic-ip-updates-for-your... Also tried KDE connect a few years back, but didn't like the idea of giving a buggy phone access to shoulder-surf root accounts. Transferring stuff out of a VM with a local samba instance also works, but samba should also be containerized. Best regards, =3
In KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
BoppreH·Jul 5, 2024
- Oracle Cloud Free Tier[1] for a Ubuntu VPS (4 ARM cores, 24 GB RAM). Surprisingly pleasant and reliable, given who's offering and for how much ($0). It used to be on DigitalOcean, until they kept screwing up their FreeBSD support and bricked my machine twice. - Caddy[2] web server with Let's Encrypt certificates, working as reverse proxy. The rest is a very lazy 2010's solution: - A Go server for HTTP (static files, uploads, maintaining server-sent-event channels). It also reads and writes events in a custom format to a local socket, for the interactive parts. - A Python server for the widgets, communicating with the Go server. - Source code edited manually in-place (SSH or SSHFS[3], with Git) and restarted as needed. I know, I know, awful practice. But as I'm the only user, uptime during development is not a concern. - Startup is handl
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ed by a @reboot cronjob and a bash one liner. - Text files for "structured storage" (RSS feed items, authenticated sessions, mapping of uploaded file names). As horrible as it might all sound, it has survived ten years and two cloud vendors. Nowadays I might containerize it, or rewrite as one Rust server, but I think I made the right choices at the time. 8/10 given the unusual requirements. [1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ [2] https://caddyserver.com/ [3] https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win
In Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
stzsch·Jan 21, 2024
Interesting timing, just yesterday I was looking for solutions for file transfer between android and windows. My main issue is how android presents as a very limited mtp device (i think?). Microsoft's phone link works, but only when opening a scrcpy-like screen with the android file manager. Very weird. If possible I wanted to actually mount the device as a drive. I stumbled upon sshfs-win[0] which mounts sftp shares as drives. Couple that with prim-ftpd[1] and voilà: android mounts as a drive. Tailscale[2] can also make it fairly lan-independent. Primitive ftpd supposedly starts on boot and keeps running but I found it stopping inconsistently at times, requiring a restart. Still, I'm quite satisfied. I suppose dav could work as well, but no apps popped up on fdroid. [0] https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win [1] https://github.com/wolpi/pri
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m-ftpd [2] https://tailscale.com/
In Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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