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655 points louis-paul | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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geenat ◴[08 Apr 25 17:36 UTC] 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 ◴[08 Apr 25 17:46 UTC] 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 ◴[08 Apr 25 17:56 UTC] 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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eddieroger ◴[08 Apr 25 18:07 UTC] No.43624752[source]▶
It'll be a sad day when this reference is posted and understood for the last time.
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swyx ◴[08 Apr 25 18:31 UTC] No.43625020{3}[source]▶
a fun thought exercise - what would have to happen to HN for this to come true? basically all the old guard have to age out and not pass on the reference?
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dmit ◴[08 Apr 25 18:34 UTC] No.43625061{4}[source]▶
Ea-Nasir

Us humans are kinda ok at preserving knowledge (and we're getting even better, but not in a good way).

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1. swyx ◴[08 Apr 25 19:34 UTC] No.43625646{5}[source]▶
brb destroying some magnetic tapes because i can just put them on the cloud