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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
2026452 stories
Cloudflare Quick Tunnels↗ try.cloudflare.com · HN · 316 comments · 844 points · Sep 18, 2026
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools↗ blog.mozilla.org · HN · 356 comments · 808 points · May 17, 2026
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying↗ tmctmt.com · HN · 389 comments · 613 points · May 15, 2026
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"↗ cyberinsider.com · HN · 446 comments · 663 points · May 09, 2026
Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking↗ netbird.io · HN · 279 comments · 741 points · Feb 01, 2026
2025423 stories
Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)↗ windscribe.com · HN · 427 comments · 673 points · Oct 04, 2025
Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node↗ reddit.com · HN · 369 comments · 1005 points · Sep 16, 2025
Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 732 comments · 1338 points · Aug 28, 2025
A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network↗ github.com · HN · 376 comments · 680 points · Jun 04, 2025
Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex↗ substack.com · HN · 378 comments · 755 points · Jan 31, 2025
2024419 stories
Review of Mullvad VPN↗ x41-dsec.de · HN · 203 comments · 476 points · Dec 11, 2024
Is Tor still safe to use?↗ blog.torproject.org · HN · 562 comments · 809 points · Sep 18, 2024
PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights↗ robertheaton.com · HN · 419 comments · 917 points · Jul 09, 2024
DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android↗ mullvad.net · HN · 379 comments · 835 points · May 03, 2024
JIT WireGuard↗ fly.io · HN · 131 comments · 485 points · Mar 13, 2024
2023447 stories
Live proxy and VPN detection↗ proxy.incolumitas.com · HN · 70 comments · 89 points · Dec 31, 2023
Discouraging the use of web application firewalls↗ macchaffee.com · HN · 43 comments · 95 points · Nov 13, 2023
Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship↗ tails.net · HN · 27 comments · 69 points · Sep 14, 2023
NordVPN library and client code open-sourced↗ github.com · HN · 43 comments · 71 points · Mar 14, 2023
Mullvad becomes highest level of Tor Member (Shallot)↗ mullvad.net · HN · 9 comments · 44 points · Mar 03, 2023
2022521 stories
Blocking Kiwifarms↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 1633 comments · 994 points · Sep 03, 2022
VPNs on iOS are a scam↗ michaelhorowitz.com · HN · 243 comments · 525 points · Aug 16, 2022
HDMI Firewall↗ git.cuvoodoo.info · HN · 160 comments · 503 points · Jun 21, 2022
Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark↗ trickster.dev · HN · 98 comments · 531 points · Mar 20, 2022
Our User-Mode WireGuard Year↗ fly.io · HN · 165 comments · 482 points · Feb 09, 2022
2021502 stories
My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)↗ twitter.com · HN · 556 comments · 1137 points · Aug 23, 2021
Please log in with router's password↗ google.com · HN · 255 comments · 583 points · Aug 10, 2021
WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel↗ lists.zx2c4.com · HN · 182 comments · 622 points · Aug 02, 2021
Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”↗ metzdowd.com · HN · 399 comments · 898 points · Jun 16, 2021
Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”↗ console.dev · HN · 334 comments · 654 points · Mar 18, 2021
2020639 stories
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur↗ twitter.com · HN · 235 comments · 754 points · Nov 14, 2020
Mozilla VPN↗ blog.mozilla.org · HN · 504 comments · 1363 points · Jun 18, 2020
WireGuard 1.0↗ lore.kernel.org · HN · 2 comments · 821 points · Mar 30, 2020
WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6↗ lists.zx2c4.com · HN · 203 comments · 768 points · Mar 30, 2020
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN↗ wired.com · HN · 295 comments · 741 points · Mar 02, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels↗ try.cloudflare.com · HN · 316 comments · 844 points · Sep 18, 2026
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web↗ david.alvarezrosa.com · HN · 106 comments · 329 points · Sep 27, 2026
Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity↗ obscura.com · HN · 139 comments · 232 points · Sep 22, 2026
Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network↗ haveibeenproxied.com · HN · 48 comments · 76 points · Sep 15, 2026
Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch↗ blog.torproject.org · HN · 5 comments · 69 points · Sep 10, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels↗ try.cloudflare.com · HN · 316 comments · 844 points · Sep 18, 2026
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web↗ david.alvarezrosa.com · HN · 106 comments · 329 points · Sep 27, 2026
Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity↗ obscura.com · HN · 139 comments · 232 points · Sep 22, 2026
Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network↗ haveibeenproxied.com · HN · 48 comments · 76 points · Sep 15, 2026
Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch↗ blog.torproject.org · HN · 5 comments · 69 points · Sep 10, 2026
How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)↗ madpsy.uk · HN · 35 comments · 62 points · Sep 04, 2026
Show HN: Wg-admin – web UI for an existing WireGuard host↗ github.com · HN · 11 comments · 35 points · Sep 07, 2026
Proton protocols: The next chapter of WireGuard at Proton VPN↗ protonvpn.com · HN · 0 comments · 7 points · Sep 07, 2026
FAFO: Blocking malicious traffic on my NixOS server↗ sighery.com · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 14, 2026
Show HN: Gopher – open-source self-hosted Cloudflare Tunnel alternative↗ gopherden.org · HN · 1 comments · 6 points · Sep 02, 2026

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