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How Wireguard trended on Hacker News

Wireguard was mentioned 11,437 times on Hacker News between 2016 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2020 with 256 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Wireguard appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
11,437
Peak month
Mar 2020 (256)
First seen
2016
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Wireguard

  1. 1.WireGuard is now in Linus' tree 982 points · 278 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app” 926 points · 376 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.WireGuard 1.0 821 points · 2 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.WireGuard 1.0 for Linux 5.6 768 points · 203 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN 741 points · 295 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Wireguard FPGA 640 points · 168 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel 622 points · 182 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust 620 points · 129 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard 616 points · 198 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server 575 points · 122 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.WireGuard for MacOS 575 points · 154 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.WireGuard is in net-next 567 points · 205 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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