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655 points louis-paul | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.479s | 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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scarface_74 ◴[08 Apr 25 18:47 UTC] No.43625205[source]▶
How many people on HN today would get the structure - “less $x than $y. No $z. Lame”?
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1. romanhn ◴[08 Apr 25 21:28 UTC] No.43626646[source]▶
Here's the source for those not familiar with the classic: https://slashdot.org/story/21026. Can't believe it's turning 25 next year.