{"slug": "tinc", "name": "Tinc", "category": "networking", "category_name": "Networking and VPN", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.047, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2026-01-13", "latest": "2026-06-28", "why": "It's even easier to configure and maintain, and supports all platforms.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It's even easier to configure and maintain, and supports all platforms.", "icon": false, "domain": "tinc-vpn.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://tinc-vpn.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Tinc", "tinc"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 779377776, "item_id": 48711111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711111", "by": "Bender", "date": "2026-06-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use my own VPN mesh running Tinc [1]", "excerpt": "I use my own VPN mesh running Tinc [1] and some here use Wireguard. I've used corporate VPN's for work in the past. Never tried one of the commercial anonymizing VPN's. Article mentions proxies. Over my Tinc VPN I like to use a Squid SSL Bump MitM proxy so I can create ACL's and cache content in RAM on the proxy for friends to share. Some day I should make an article for setting up Tinc and Squid. And yeah, VPN's can", "context": "", "use_case": "personal VPN mesh", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't Use VPN Servces"}, {"id": 761514160, "item_id": 47594635, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594635", "by": "imiric", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's even easier to configure and maintain, and supports all platforms.", "excerpt": "Tailscale is not different. It simply makes managing WG configuration easier, and adds some useful value-added features on top. But, as you know, you can also manage this configuration yourself, either via traditional config mgmt tools, helpers like wg-meshconf, or even plain shell scripts, if you like. I'm aware this is a very HN-Dropboxy comment, but it's really not that complex[1], and is easily manageable for a s", "context": "", "use_case": "mesh VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "jrm4", "context": "limited networking knowledge", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609560", "date": "2026-01-13"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["personal vpn mesh", "mesh vpn", "personal vpn networking"], "compared": [{"slug": "wireguard", "name": "WireGuard", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711094", "title": "Don't Use VPN Servces", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592462", "title": "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606854", "title": "Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 779377776, "item_id": 48711111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711111", "by": "Bender", "date": "2026-06-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use my own VPN mesh running Tinc [1]", "excerpt": "I use my own VPN mesh running Tinc [1] and some here use Wireguard. I've used corporate VPN's for work in the past. Never tried one of the commercial anonymizing VPN's. Article mentions proxies. Over my Tinc VPN I like to use a Squid SSL Bump MitM proxy so I can create ACL's and cache content in RAM on the proxy for friends to share. Some day I should make an article for setting up Tinc and Squid. And yeah, VPN's can", "context": "", "use_case": "personal VPN mesh", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't Use VPN Servces"}, {"id": 761514160, "item_id": 47594635, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594635", "by": "imiric", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's even easier to configure and maintain, and supports all platforms.", "excerpt": "Tailscale is not different. It simply makes managing WG configuration easier, and adds some useful value-added features on top. But, as you know, you can also manage this configuration yourself, either via traditional config mgmt tools, helpers like wg-meshconf, or even plain shell scripts, if you like. I'm aware this is a very HN-Dropboxy comment, but it's really not that complex[1], and is easily manageable for a s", "context": "", "use_case": "mesh VPN", "switched_from": "", "story": "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"}, {"id": 745752960, "item_id": 46609560, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609560", "by": "jrm4", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Tinc as a daily driver (for personal things)", "excerpt": "Whenever I see threads like this, I think its related but I'll be honest, my networking understanding might be limited. I use Tinc as a daily driver (for personal things) and have yet to come up with a new equivalent, given that I probably should. Does Vxlan help here?", "context": "limited networking knowledge", "use_case": "personal VPN networking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Vxlan over WireGuard or WireGuard over Vxlan?"}]}