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Tailscale has raised $160M

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659 points louis-paul | 2 comments | 4/8/2025, 10:36:00 AM | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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geenat ◴[4/8/2025, 5:36:00 PM] No.43624362[source]▶

IMHO they should be a good steward and toss the Wireguard guy a mil considering Tailscale is pretty much Wireguard with a GUI on top.

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aborsy ◴[4/8/2025, 5:46:00 PM] No.43624493[source]▶

This is not correct. Wireguard establishes a tunnel between peer A and B, and its simplicity stops there. Tailscale does tons of complex networking, filtering, nat traversal, DNS, file sharing, etc. Wireguard is a small part of the codebase today, which has grown a lot.

It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

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aqfamnzc ◴[4/8/2025, 5:56:00 PM] No.43624623[source]▶

> It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

Well, it is. After all, for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...

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1. freedomben ◴[4/8/2025, 7:00:00 PM] No.43625339[source]▶

Isn't Dropbox just a GUI on top of rsync? I've also seen people say "FTP"

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2. incanus77 ◴[4/8/2025, 8:29:00 PM] No.43626130[source]▶

Yeah, the same way a car is just a GUI on top of two bikes.