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tonari blog
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tonari blog is the company blog at blog.tonari.no, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts from tonari, the team behind the innernet WireGuard-based private network tool, and for a write-up on using Notion content with a static site generator.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-03-29
- Using Rust for a simple hardware project2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
What Hacker News says?
I work there currently, we still exist! We actually just published a blog post last week about how we use tonari internally: https://blog.tonari.no/how-tonari-uses-tonari
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on “Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together”Submitted 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust as a story · 427 points
HN discussionPointing people to one possible alternative if they just want to blog: use a static site generator. My company created a static site generator which pulls content from notion. You get the WYSIWYG editing of notion, with the speed and simplicity of a static site. You just have to find a place for static site hosting - github pages, firebase, netlify, etc. There are plenty out there. https://blog.tonari.no/blog-blog
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on “What are you doing, WordPress.com?”Submitted Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative as a story · 265 points
HN discussionVery cool from a tech standpoint. From a product point of view, I find it interesting that the illustrations/concept videos for these things always show people interacting very closely to the wall - e.g. playing chess, sitting around a table, etc. https://tonari.no/static/media/family.48218197.svg But in practice, people tend to keep their distance from it. E.g. the pictures of this setup tend to show people cluster…
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on “3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust”Submitted Show HN: Shadergarden: Create reloadable graphical pipelines with Lisp and GLSL as a story · 46 points
HN discussionNice to see another one of these tools. Tonari also recently released innernet in this space, written in Rust as well: https://blog.tonari.no/introducing-innernet
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on “VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust”Submitted 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust as a story · 38 points
HN discussionVery cool project. One thing that seems lacking, however, is the ability to join a single machine into multiple subnets - what if, based on the example given halfway down the page here [0], I wanted to have access to resources in both the `engineering` and `straylight` subnets? It's not clear to me that innernet lets my computer be part of both, since 'you are your IP address'. [0] https://blog.tonari.no/introducing…
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on “Innernet: A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood”Submitted Tonari portals use Rust and face detection for magical user experiences as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMan, a personal hosted VPN for all my junk is my dream. Can't wait to get something selfhosted, tail-scail-like setup. Something i can get into from anywhere and work from anything. I'm tempted to order a bluetooth keyboard like this post just to have it in the car and be able to work from my iPad/iPhone in a pinch (assuming internet). For someone wanting an easy, at home VPN for setups just like in the blog - is an…
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on “Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal”Submitted Using Rust for a simple hardware project as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust fyi, I've found Tailscale to be excellent for this purpose. I just created a new google account, for sharing with friends and family to log in to tailscale, and it's completely free. A relay on my Raspberry pi allow me to expose select devices to those connected to my tailscale. Easy, magical NAT traversal. - https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ Edit: Oh wow. I just ran into innernet. Looks like…
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on “Show HN: A tool to self host game servers with a free static IP”Submitted Introducing 'innernet' a tailscale alternative (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOther things (I haven't yet investigated) in this space include: https://github.com/wiretrustee/wiretrustee https://blog.tonari.no/introducing-innernet https://gravitl.com/
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on “ZeroTier – Global Area Networking”Submitted Making video communication feel more like real life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm not sure what was available to the author at the time of writing, but it feels like abstractions have gotten better and writing embedded Rust has gotten easier. I also wrote keyboard firmware in Rust and thought it was great! I leaned on embedded-hal and the chip HAL crates (one layer of abstraction higher than the author in your link) and was able to get the majority of the firmware done in a day or two. For ex…
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on “Zig and Rust”Submitted Using Rust for a simple hardware project as a story · 1 points
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