Submission timeline
2007–2026One 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.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order+1 for tinc. I've used it for years in VPS providers and from home to VPS to cloak DNS from the ISP eyes and tampering. It's not as fast as strongswan or wireguard, but it has dynamic mesh routing. If one of my nodes is down, I route through the others automagically, all in user space without having to enable forwarding on any nodes. This is handy when backbone providers are having issues.
Been using tinc for god knows how long... Perhaps 20 years? It's been fantastic. I really don't know why people are wax-lyrical about wireguard. tinc was doing it 20 years ago. UDP? yeah. encryption, mesh, proxy ARP you name it. I've had countless install and it's been the best VPN. You even get a 'dot' graph of your current network status if you want to. When 'git' was invented, I put my /etc/tinc/*/ into git with the public keys, and…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 633
- Total comments
- 269
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-20 | Tinc VPN Client | remx | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-02-07 | Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between HostsFirst breakout · Best thread | phantom_oracle | 420 | 195 |
| 2023-06-27 | Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPNLatest 20+ point return | azalemeth | 212 | 74 |