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Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots

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61
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36
Submitted by
boldi
Posted
Nov 3, 2026
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github.com

Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on github.com.

Trending history

Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 7, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 62 checks on 2 different days, across 2 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #23 of 29, reached on Nov 7, 03:52 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 14:50 UTC.

Rank history

Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).

#1#11#20#30 02:5204:4406:3708:2910:22 Nov 7, 02:52 UTC · #28Nov 7, 03:07 UTC · #29Nov 7, 03:22 UTC · #28Nov 7, 03:37 UTC · #29Nov 7, 03:52 UTC · #23Nov 7, 04:07 UTC · #23Nov 7, 04:22 UTC · #24Nov 7, 04:37 UTC · #25Nov 7, 04:52 UTC · #24Nov 7, 05:07 UTC · #25Nov 7, 05:22 UTC · #25Nov 7, 05:37 UTC · #23Nov 7, 05:52 UTC · #23Nov 7, 06:07 UTC · #23Nov 7, 06:22 UTC · #24Nov 7, 06:37 UTC · #27Nov 7, 06:52 UTC · #27Nov 7, 07:07 UTC · #28Nov 7, 07:22 UTC · #25Nov 7, 07:37 UTC · #24Nov 7, 07:52 UTC · #25Nov 7, 08:07 UTC · #26Nov 7, 08:22 UTC · #27Nov 7, 08:37 UTC · #26Nov 7, 08:52 UTC · #24Nov 7, 09:07 UTC · #24Nov 7, 09:22 UTC · #24Nov 7, 09:37 UTC · #24Nov 7, 09:52 UTC · #24Nov 7, 10:07 UTC · #24Nov 7, 10:22 UTC · #24

Last 14 days

Best rank per day (UTC).

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Metric history

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Where it trended

ListBestDaysChecksLast seen
Hacker News · Front page#23131
Hacker News · Show HN · this week#21231

From the discussion

A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.

This is built on top of tmux-continuum & tmux-resurrect, tmux plugins which I've been using now for 10+ years - pretty much every day - they bring so much joy to using tmux. Zero worries about having to restore local window settings - It's not uncommon for me to have 40+ panes split across 15+ windows. Windows / Dell…

Hi everyone I built this since it'd be so frustrating to have all my tmux windows with different paths and layouts all destroyed when restarting my computer (e.g. for installing drivers). It also resumes e.g. claude code sessions. Hope it helps!

I’m pretty sure I’ve used tmux-ressurect for this. What’s the difference?

Questions

Is Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots trending on Hacker News right now?

Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 14:50 UTC, after 2 days of trending.

What is the highest rank Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots reached?

#23 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 03:52 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.

How long has Show HN: Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots been trending?

It was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (62 checks) since.

How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?

61 points and 36 comments; submitted by boldi on Nov 3, 2026.