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Comment by jrockway | Hacker News Reader

Isn't hyper its own key, not a combination of the other modifiers?

Emacs seems to think so:

  ELISP> (kbd "S-s-C-M-x")
  [176160792]
  ELISP> (kbd "s-C-M-x")
  [142606360]
  ELISP> (kbd "H-x")
  [16777336]

Yup, it's its own key. People tend to refer to this combination of modifiers on OS X as "Hyper" because of this post by Steve Losh:

That's annoying. How do Mac users use capitalized Greek letters as part of key combinations!?

It's a horrible burden, but we've learned to make do.