tailscale/tailcat

1. 26 Aug 2026Hacker News threadread the thread
2. 25 Sep 2026First seen on GitHub Trending · rank 11· 30 days later
3. 30 Sep 2026Entered our index· 5 days later

Stars: 7.8k when it entered our index, 8.5k on the last capture we hold (23 Oct 2026), so +635 in that span. That span is our own measurement window, not a claim about what happened before it.

We hold 3 mentions for it, the oldest dated 26 Aug 2026 and the first written into our database on 7 Oct 2026. Thread dates come from the source, not from when we fetched them.

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• Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data planeHNcomment · by bradfitz · 26 Aug 2026

  One fun use case: a coworker just whipped up this Minecraft mod using tailcat as its transport: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat-for-minecraft (just a cute demo, not intended for release or ongoing maintenance)

• Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data planeHNcomment · by bradfitz · 26 Aug 2026

  (Author here) The DERP server is already open source and tailcat can use any DERP server you run: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/main/cmd/derper#... We just provide some default ones ( https://tailcat.dev/derpmap.json ) to get started if you're not bandwidth-sensitive. But you don't have to use them. Update: I added more explicit docs about this to https://github.com/tailscale/tailca…

• Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data planeHNstory · 687 points · 134 comments · by nderjung · 26 Aug 2026

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