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If I was your friend like them, I'd be millionaire but instead I am banned for exposing you. I always knew that life isn't fair but I am counting on coronavirus to make it a little fairer

When every Wireguard post gets immediately hijacked to become a promotion for this company, when at least 2 threads get to the HN frontpage each week then something is totally very fishy. I understand they are popular and have strong connections with many powerful people here. But at least this systematic promotion should be mentioned as promotion and not some innocent thread because it's totally organized and intentional.

HN promoted Tailscale worth of million dollars of advertising so far for free. This is really disgusting and the biggest proof that relations >>> product.

Rename this website to Tailscale News.

Are you sure you are talking about Kind and not minikube for instance? for me Kind is the most efficient way of running a real cluster on my machine, a bare cluster merely takes 600MB for RAM in my case and the creation takes too long only in the first time because it downloads the docker images.

I typically don't shill around here, but why isn't ZeroTier on that list? I suppose we don't have a giant marketing budget (yet).

now you know, nothing here is just coincidental, not even the timing the posts are submitted or the type of comments that get quickly upvoted or buried to derail the discussion in a certain direction or even the links injected in comments of popular threads to improve the SEO of some companies and projects. Every, again EVERY, WireGuard post over the past 2 months has instantly converted into a shilling party for this company that literally has no product to offer, its source-code is pre-alpha state yet the party is persistent for every thread, it seems that the owners have really powerful friends all over the place and that's why they're having free ride despite having no product. This recipe for having a popular startup name with no actual product has really worked very well in the easy times of 2014-2020. Let's see how things work out this time

This company has been exploiting HN for so long on a systematic basis. Really tells you how things work here.

@dang please will you ever take action against this excessive and systematic exploitation of this company to market its products for free here?

@dang please will you ever take action against this excessive and systematic exploitation of this company to market its products for free here?

I will stop doing that. But HN should give the priority to FOSS projects and commercial projects made by single developers and small companies that have no money or other way of reaching out to users instead of helping big companies and startups made by millionaires. As of Wireguard case, if you've been following all popular threads about it throughout the last 2 months you will know what I am talking about.

Don't let HN to become another ProductHunt.

Again, please do your job and delete astroturfing comments and ban these users. This company has been exploiting HN for so long to promote itself whenever a post about Wireguard go to the frontpage. They don't even have a ready product. This website encourages really sneaky types of marketing if you don't take action.

I didn't say he is angry, my main point was not advertise for free for a company that is built off the work of a single man, especially when it's FOSS, especially when it's a technically piece of genius like WireGuard, while not supporting the man himself. There are known ways for companies to market their paid product, it's called ads.

Of course I am sure he is extremely happy spending 5 years developing the next big thing then others rebrand it for enterprise and become rich.

This is more or less what a senior Frontend dev usually makes in the US. The author single handedly made the first serious FOSS VPN that can replace IPSec and OpenVPN

Don't forget to support Jason, WireGuard's author, on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4

I am sick of people shilling to this thing here. Stop exploiting HN for free advertising. Every Wireguard post here has become a free ad for this company.

EDIT: Stop supporting parasites repackaging and rebranding open source and selling it while leaving the author who single handedly made this entire thing possible begging for donations on Patreon

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses

Repeating this quote again and again won't make it correct.

Golang is such a joke of a language. The compiler won't even compile if there is an unused variable but won't warn you if there is an unchecked error! This language is meant to produce buggy incorrect code that can only be mitigated with writing excessive repetitive tests that have nothing to do with business logic itself.

Golang is probably the biggest embarrassment of a modern programming language ever conceived. Again, if you don't believe me, just start writing your first Kubernetes controller.

I am not sure whether these statistic reflect anything on the real world, but even if true this is due to the nature of applications in which Go are used e.g. distributed systems, cloud native, etc... and its concentration in the bay area maybe

He's an employer, and like I said below it's not surprise that all employers and managers who rarely write any code defend Golang whenever the debate shows up. The language features barely have anything to do with the language itself (easy to pickup -> bigger pool of developers and lower average paychecks/dev, acceptable performance and memory usage and fast compilation times -> better AWS bills compared to Ruby/Python/Java, abundance of support for many cloud and distrubted stuff (e.g. k8s go client, envoy, cloud vendor sdks, etc...)

I would have said so as long as I am the employer and not the one who actually work with the language.

Golang is a pretty much messed up language made by short-sighted and very, very, very stubborn designers. If you don't believe me, just look for instance at all the hacky code generation tools made by the Kubernetes guys. But even if generics are there, the language itself is still very lacking to an irritating level (e.g. no option types aka nil access, no enforcement of error checking aka no result types, no enums, no conditional compilation, no iterators, no immutables, etc...)

EDIT: HN upvote system has nothing to do with right or wrong or constructing a good discussion, it's based on fanboyism and political correctness. Really sad.

Never trust anything that comes from indiehackers, this is a community of professional indie astroturfers and manipulators of everything from renaming the same product and launching it every couple months on ProductHunt and buying upvotes, to baiting HNers with "How I made $X by doing Y". It's a pump and dump scheme on sub-million dollar levels.

it seems you're good with playing the cheap viral game on product hunt, but probably that kind of cheap tricks doesn't work very well here.

If they did all these things they wouldn't even think to reach out to you in the first place.

It's obvious that Tailscale founders are well connected and have very powerful friends, nobody can even tell what the product is yet they already popular on HN and Twitter. This Heptio-tier strategy already proved to be very profitable and successful. Probably the company will be sold to Google within 3 years at a huge number then merged and burned within a year later without nobody noticing what the hell what that was all about.

On the contrary, Keybase has the advantage of linking keys to social accounts. If Keybase have client libraries that use signing/verifying, encryption/decryption programmatically outside their bloated CLI that would be a great tool for authentication/authorization that can replace oAuth2/SSO for example. This itself can be a sufficient business plan for enterprise customers and I am not sure why they have not done it after all these years.

Obviously they want to lock users inside their tool for business reasons.

Keybase claims to be a modern replacement for PGP yet I don't think they even have some SDK that acts like gpgme. This is a very rudimentary feature to implement but it can unleash a whole new world for applications that use signatures and E2EE.

Keybase is a good idea and they got lucky with getting popular but they haven't really implemented features that would make them essential. Most people just sign up and forget about it.

EDIT: Seriously why the downvotes without clarifying? Has Keybase adopted astroturfing on HN like Brave and DuckDuckGo?

Thanks! never heard of the learner member feature until now. I was asking for an app where most of the nodes are exerting watch operations while only a few other nodes do PUTs due to human intervention. This means that I have a very low write/read ratio. Also I assume that the number of nodes is usually stable so it's not like a very dynamic system where nodes join and leave very frequently. Does this make it easier to have a cluster of 50-100 nodes in different datacenters without breaking etcd down?

How many nodes can etcd handle without having noticeable decay in performance? their FAQ says 7 but did somebody use it in some other distributed app other than k8s with more nodes? Assume that most of the operations are get and watch (i.e. write/read <<< 1.0), how big of a cluster in terms of number nodes can we scale up to?

Doesn't sound like it's Open Source to me

Your parent's comment didn't even mention the open source issue here. Stop harassing startups with open source products just because you make 6 figure merely doing nothing all year.