[nif2ee]

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 the founders 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.

[dang]

You said you would stop doing this, but instead you've done it even more. As I explained before, it's against the site guidelines. Therefore we've banned this account.

I haven't seen any evidence of manipulation to get Tailscale on HN, nor has it been on HN particularly much: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... As far as I can tell, HN readers are genuinely interested in it, partly because they know the founders, and partly because the people involved are experienced bloggers and good writers. This article, for example, seems unusually well put together. When the underlying topic is already of interest, that makes a big difference.

[nif2ee]

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

[mindfulplay]

I have no idea who the founders are. (I do have an idea of who bradfitz is).

I have no connection to these people and still find this technology as something new and fascinating.

It's hard to see a genuinely new concept in startups these days given the million SaaS PaaS startups all clenching over low hanging fruit...