Stinkpot
Shares rank 73 of 86 privilege escalation tools by recommenders
People recommend it as a small, lean shell history tool that skips the extra features of tools like atuin, and it is only about 400 lines of code.
People recommend it as a small, lean shell history tool that skips the extra features of tools like atuin, and it is only about 400 lines of code.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Small codebase, about 400 lines
“only 400 LOC too, pretty neat”
Comment from 26 Jul 2026 in “Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History” Fewer extras than atuin
“I wanted this without all the extras of atuin that I never use.”
Comment from 26 Jul 2026 in “Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History” Custom fork works well for one user
“I switched to my custom fork of stinkpot posted a few days ago here, and it's so nice.”
Comment from 16 Aug 2026 in “Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug”
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See all 86 privilege escalation tools, rankedWhat people said
4 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I switched to my custom fork of stinkpot posted a few days ago here, and it's so nice.”
“I wanted this without all the extras of atuin that I never use.”
“PROMPT_COMMAND has the following flaw: a command gets recorded as soon as it has finished.”
“only 400 LOC too, pretty neat”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.