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Blog on Tailscale
Company blog · tailscale.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Blog on Tailscale is the company blog at tailscale.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2019, 724 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,201 times, most often “TailScale – Easy Zero Trust Networking and VPN Powered by WireGuard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
The connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security teams. Zero Trust identity-based access that deploys in minutes and scales to every resource. Start free.
Most-linked posts?
- TailScale – Easy Zero Trust Networking and VPN Powered by WireGuard61 people · 67 mentions · first linked 2020-01-29
- How NAT traversal works (2020)42 people · 55 mentions · first linked 2020-08-21
- How NAT Traversal Works (2020)30 people · 33 mentions · first linked 2021-06-13
- TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are22 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2019-12-04
- How Tailscale Works13 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2020-03-21
- A database for 202212 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2022-04-01
- Taildrop lets you send files between your personal devices on Tailscale network12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2022-10-21
- /kb/1226/tailnet-lock11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2024-03-23
- /kb/1223/funnel11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2024-02-15
- Role-based access control like it was meant to be9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-08-27
What Hacker News says?
You mean like using Google GSuite for SSO? In the context of this authentication-related outage, it's a funny suggestion. https://tailscale.com/kb/1013/sso-providers
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on “Google outage – resolved”Submitted Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure as a story · 1279 points
HN discussion> I can see both sides. If you're a startup that needs to be able to scale quickly if product market fit is achieved, the cloud really saves your bacon. Depends on the team size of the said startup [0]. In my opinion, tech-shops are better off using new-age cloud providers like fly.io / glitch.com / render.com / railway.app / replit.com / deno.com / workers.dev etc [1]. [0] https://tailscale.com/blog/modules-monolit…
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on “I got pwned by my cloud costs”Submitted Tailscale raises $100M as a story · 854 points
HN discussionFwiw, Tailscale has done this, and written about it: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
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on “I'm all-in on server-side SQLite”Submitted Tailscale SSH as a story · 759 points
HN discussionLitestream author here. That's a good question. There's not very good visibility into open source usage so it's hard to say unless folks write blog posts about it. For example, I know Tailscale runs part of their infrastructure with SQLite & Litestream[1]. I wrote a database called BoltDB before and I have no idea how widespread it is exactly. It's used in a lot of open source projects like Consul & etcd but I don't…
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on “I'm all-in on server-side SQLite”Submitted How our free plan stays free as a story · 684 points
HN discussionTailscale: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/ I don't know their user count, but they are growing well and just raised their Series B.
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on “I'm all-in on server-side SQLite”Submitted Tailscale Funnel as a story · 666 points
HN discussionhttps://tailscale.com/kb/1028/key-expiry#disabling-key-expir...
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on “Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure”Submitted Tailscale has raised $160M as a story · 659 points
HN discussionTailscale supports other SSO providers, too. https://tailscale.com/kb/1013/sso-providers
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on “Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple”Submitted A database for 2022 as a story · 624 points
HN discussionhttps://tailscale.com/ requires it, as do many other apps that explicitly "don't want to become identity providers and would rather offload that burden to someone else".
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on “Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple”Submitted The New Internet as a story · 517 points
HN discussionI would recommend trying to set up tailscale[0] in the servers instead of a VPN, its similar to the reply about SSH ProxyForwarding but it has a lot more tricks under the hood. Of course you need somewhere (aka an AWS server in eg. europe) to connect to. Also have a look at their blog post about NAT traversal for some potential inspiration: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ Good luck out there! I'l…
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on “Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran”Submitted MagicDNS is generally available as a story · 429 points
HN discussionGood article from Tailscale on how direct connections is established, even when both nodes is behind NAT: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
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on “Dumb Pipe”Submitted How NAT Traversal Works (2020) as a story · 408 points
HN discussionTailscale - riding on the wireguard wave - https://tailscale.com/ Also Wireguard - https://www.wireguard.com/
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on “Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?”Submitted Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update as a story · 393 points
HN discussionAll the new products around WireGuard. I'm so tired of running VPNs. NAT traversal with protocols like STUN, TURN and ICE are going to allow point-to-point networks for all the clients. https://tailscale.com/ https://portal.cloud/app/subspace
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on “Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?”Submitted Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 as a story · 371 points
HN discussionSomeone else linked https://tailscale.com in this thread. Could that be similar to what you're looking for? I haven't dug fully into but definitely will later today.
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on “WireGuard is now in Linus' tree”Submitted netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go as a story · 368 points
HN discussionCheck out https://tailscale.com/ a mesh VPN built on top of wireguard.
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on “WireGuard is now in Linus' tree”Submitted Tailscale Peer Relays as a story · 364 points
HN discussionI agree that sending cleartext over the internet in this day and age is a bad idea. But "encrypt all communication at the application layer" doesn't have to be the only solution. There's also "encrypt communication at the <i>network</i> layer," as discussed here for example: https://tailscale.com/blog/remembering-the-lan/ I have a suspicion that this will prove to be a better abstraction than application-level encry…
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on “The HTTP crash course nobody asked for”Submitted An Unlikely Database Migration as a story · 364 points
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