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Nikhil Mungel
Personal blog · blog.hyfather.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Nikhil Mungel's personal blog at blog.hyfather.com covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from an HN thread on a terminal multiplexer built on WebRTC with gesture support. The one comment discusses WebRTC data-channel bandwidth versus SSH for terminal traffic and does not judge the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-30
What Hacker News says?
there's probably some extra bandwidth usage but it's using Data Channels, not streaming video. i'd love to know what a single character footprints is in ssh & in webrtc data-channels. evidently ssh is not actually that great[1]! webrtc might perhaps do better!! it is sctp/data-gram based! (personally i hope webtransport/quic eventually replaces this kinda odd/big stack) once one starts doing Terminal User Interface…
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/18/ssh-uses-four-tcp-segments-for-each-character/
on “A terminal multiplexer with full gesture support built on WebRTC”Submitted SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Missing Man Page for ifconfig as a story · 1 points
HN discussion