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Show HN: WireHole's New UI Makes Managing WireGuard Clients Easy

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
3
observed span
2020–2023
peak thread · 139 comments
298 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-10-28
99 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Hey, I’m the author of wg-easy, nice to see my project in here! As for all the license discussions, I just don’t want a company to pack my work and sell it as a commercial device or service. I’m open for a better license which covers that.

I can understand the benefit of automating these things but I think it would probably be better for people to setup these things manually first. At least to understand what each step is doing. Otherwise, people are trusting rather a core piece of infrastructure with a random docker image online. I found personally that there are several aspects of this automation that needs tweaking. * If you need ipv6 support this config needs to be overhauled. * Wireguard config should…

kd913·242-point thread·

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044782 By u/byteknight

Can you also make it do mesh networking like self-hosted Tailscale? That would really be something!

metadat·8-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
647

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Total comments
227

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2020-09-09WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantlyFirst breakoutbyteknight24273
2022-05-27WireHole – A WireGuard VPN with Native Ad-BlockingIAmStoxe82
2023-10-27Show HN: WireHole's New UI Makes Managing WireGuard Clients EasyBest threadbyteknight298139
2023-10-28WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and UnboundLatest 20+ point returnthekashifmalik9913