Show HN: Beam – Pairing machines with passkeys; replace SSH&VPN's with Tailcat
A concept I wanted to share that is built on TailScale's Tailcat https://tailscale.com/tailcat The inspiration is that I was thinking of ways to allow my users to be able to pool their machines easily without needing to set up SSH or a VPN. How can you lower the barrier to entry without compromising on security. The end result is you get a remote shell connection and a Tailcat tunnel that only requires your user to know how to use passkeys to verify their machines. Any machine can join the pool
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仓库：notaharness/beam。 来源描述：A concept I wanted to share that is built on TailScale's Tailcat https://tailscale.com/tailcat The inspiration is that I was thinking of ways to allow my users to be able to pool their machines easily without needing to set up SSH or a VPN. How can you lower the barrier to entry without compromising on security. The end result is you get a remote shell connection and a Tailcat tunnel that only requires your user to know how to use passkeys to verify their machines. Any machine can join the pool
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来源票数: 1 votes (2026年11月11日 UTC; cumulative since publication) 可供比较的近期同类记录：“Show HN: Fix Gate – verifies security-fix PRs, incl. AI-written ones” (Show HN, 2026年11月10日)；“Show HN: Simstim – local call transcription on Mac into .md files” (Show HN, 2026年11月10日)。主题相近仅用于导航，未核验其是否属于同一需求或独立证据。
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