24 engineers on Hacker News describe using WireGuard first-hand: 7 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I've managed wireguard in the past, and would never do it again. Generating keys, distributing them, configuring it all”
regret · personal · epistasis · 2026-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had a wireguard server and client container ... running in production for over a year with no issues.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · chatmasta · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found the Android client very easy to use... wireguard seemed better in every way.”
endorse · personal · pxeboot · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used it privately for a while and it is much better than anything else.”
mixed · personal · Hikikomori · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using now wireguard for the past two years, really happy with it!”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · mendelmaleh · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Of all of the VPN experiences over the last couple of decades, Wireguard has been light-years ahead of the rest.”
endorse · personal · Diederich · 2019-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We do use "zero trust" in what you describe as the architectural sense, and I do not think leveraging WireGuard is a step backwards at all.”
endorse · production · crawshaw · 2019-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using WireGuard as our primary VPN solution for a long time now and don't anticipate a change anytime soon.”
endorse · production · tolleydbg · 2019-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The recently added option to activate on-demand is great, as it means I can now force VPN for any WiFi and/or mobile data connections.”
endorse · personal · graystevens · 2018-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“need to dial in through my home (wireguard) so no license issues with streamers”
neutral · personal · davedigerati · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using mopidy plus Snapcast to do this (via wireguard when remote)”
neutral · personal · acidburnNSA · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Modal still uses the kernel WireGuard module.”
neutral · production · ekzhang · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we built our own on top of WireGuard and open-sourced it”
neutral · production · ekzhang · 2024-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run large-scale WireGuard for hundreds of thousands of clients, and we know none of their client source IP addresses.”
neutral · production · tptacek · 2024-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run WireGuard gateways to the public cloud we operate”
neutral · production · tptacek · 2024-06-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Headscale [1] to maintain a Wireguard mesh.”
neutral · production · toomuchtodo · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Using a mesh of Glinet routers (GL-AXT1800) and Wireguard across residential points of presence.”
neutral · personal · toomuchtodo · 2023-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now we use Wireguard instead, for the rare occasions”
neutral · personal · dsr_ · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The browser makes a WebSocket connection to our relay server, and we run the WireGuard tunnel over that.”
neutral · production · mihaip · 2022-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use WireGuard tunnels to bypass all ISP restrictions, and provide a clean /32 IPv4 and /56 IPv6 using a native network interface.”
neutral · production · rubatuga · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“and a wireguard server (with good enough bandwidth, I use it with steam link/gamestream).”
neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · slock83 · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for portability I remote into my home network via Wireguard on an iPad Pro”
neutral · personal · robotmay · 2021-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In January, we started doing user-mode WireGuard, so that flyctl runs its own TCP/IP stack”
neutral · production · tptacek · 2021-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this type of set up for about 6 months now and it works well for me.”
neutral · personal · 0.5 yr · jjice · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?