Google Antigravity • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by Namahanna » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

msci100 wrote: post #49

So this is Google's version of Windsurf's Wave 10 before the whole team got poached? https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-10-browser Trying to understand how this is anything net new in the space.

Looks to be. The UI has almost the exactly the same bits, and I even got 'Cascade' references as using it.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by pulkitsh1234 » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

Seems like they are trying to attack both Cursor and Lovable at the same time...nice !

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by collingreen » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #47

jakebasile wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many forks of VS Code am I supposed to have installed at this point?

My YC2026 startups are an AI agent that automatically manages your VSCode forks, and a public safety computer vision app for smart glasses that predicts whether someone can afford a lawyer based on their skin color

They'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies:

- ai therapist for your ai agents

- genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives

- prompt engineering as a service

- social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster

- vector db but actually json for some reason

(Edit: formatting)

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

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Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by pharrington » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:41 PM UTC

guluarte wrote: post #11

and the difference from vscode is...?

This one forces you to log into your google account before you can use vscode!

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by BiteCode_dev » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

Looks great, won't touch since they are probably going to do a switcheroo or a shutdown as usual.

And of course I would need to look at all the implications of spying, being locked out of google account and absence of support that are google amo. No time for that. Not for them.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by koakuma-chan » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

nateb2022 wrote: post #43

I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

Oh no, not another VSCode fork...

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by modeless » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

nateb2022 wrote: post #43

I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)

Thank you for saying what this entire blog post doesn't. It's actually disrespectful of Google to launch this without even a mention of the fact that it is based on VSCode.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by bluerooibos » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

Read the title, got excited. Read the page.. ah well, guess we'll have to wait another while for FTL travel.

Re: Google Antigravity

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Post by gcr » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

riskassessment wrote: post #59

ayhanfuat wrote: post #40

On the pricing page it says that for public preview they are offering a free individual plan with "generous rate limits". I gave it an HTML file and asked it to create Jinja templates from it and 2 minutes later (still planning, no additional prompt) I got this: > Model quota limit exceeded. You have reached the quota limit for this model.

> html Would be willing to bet this is the issue. Adding html files to context for gemini models results in a ton of token use.

why?

EDIT: why must users care?