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Show HN: Whole-home VPN router with hardware kill switch (OpenWrt and WireGuard)

https://github.com/yoloshii/privacy-first-network
12•yoloshii•56m ago
With internet censorship and surveillance on the rise, ie; UK Online Safety Bill (July 2025) and Australia's social media legislation (Dec 2025) introducing mandatory age verification (read: initial step on the pathway to social credit), I wanted a privacy-first solution that protects browsing history from ISPs and third-party verification services, but not one that requires you to be an Einstein to deploy.

This stack turns a Raspberry Pi (or any OpenWrt-compatible device) into a network-wide VPN gateway.

Key features: - Hardware kill switch: VPN down = no internet (not a software rule that can leak) - AmneziaWG obfuscation for DPI-resistant connections - Optional AdGuard Home for DNS filtering - Works for all devices including smart TVs and IoT that can't run VPN apps

Not a techie? The README is optimized for AI-assisted deployment. Feed it to your LLM of choice (Claude, GPT, etc.) and it can walk you through the entire setup for your specific hardware.

Mullvad-focused but works with any WireGuard provider. MIT license.

Docker deploy in testing (coming soon)

Comments

cbsks•18m ago
The downside is that some services, such as video streaming, block access from VPNs.
yoloshii•53s ago
That's where VPN obfuscation is the play, imo. A lot of people nowadays are leaving streaming platforms or watch YT on smart TVs, so it does have a place. You can always exclude a device from the VPN coverage too.
dontdoxxme•17m ago
> Not a techie? The README is optimized for AI-assisted deployment. Feed it to your LLM of choice (Claude, GPT, etc.) and it can walk you through the entire setup for your specific hardware.

The whole thing is AI slop. I thought there might be something interesting here but it's just a bunch of disconnected fragments of OpenWRT config and some other bits without any overall thought.

It doesn't even use network namespaces. You can probably do better by giving your LLM https://www.wireguard.io/netns/ as input.

yoloshii•3m ago
It prompts the user's agent to audit their network devices and topology first, and research online if it gets stuck. the configs need to be agnostic and contain placeholders. The whole idea is that the agent helps the user vibe code this, which is very doable, and probably the norm when there are so many people looking for solutions like this given the current climate.
globalnode•9m ago
im kinda off vpns since i learnt that id likeley become an ai crawler or a proxy for someones paid ddos
mzajc•7m ago
> The kill switch is implemented in the firewall and routing table, not in software.

As far as I know, both of these are in the kernel (not hardware). It's odd that so much of the README is dedicated to describing this relatively simple firewall rule, but the whole thing smells like generated slop.

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