SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B • Hacker News Board

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by cornhole » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

higginsniggins wrote: post #319

PUSH_AX wrote: post #7

In related news, I'm open to suggestions for coding agent harnesses.

Theres several open source options you can use. The highest github stars one is called `zed` another one i've heard about is `Cline` theirs also a few that yc backed ones: `Void` `Continue` `PearAI` For what its worth the non yc ones have way more github stars but im sure the yc ones are good too. I think `Continue` is the biggest yc one.

continue is eol after being acquired by cursor/spacex https://www.continue.dev/

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by lucasacosta_ » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

I run Claude Code in cmux with Soonpatch and that's it. I tried looking at Cursor but honestly it wasn't providing any value and I prefer being 100% up to date with CC updates/interface

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by outside1234 » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

Github Copilot is so much better than Cursor and a worldwide sales team. This acquisition has no chance.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by sharts » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #422

A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...

Gotta pump that stock price with constant news buzz

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by outside1234 » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #422

A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...

SpaceX is just a vibe company. Nothing they are doing makes sense on a valuation basis, which their investors are eventually going to painfully figure out.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by jacobgold » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

PUSH_AX wrote: post #7

In related news, I'm open to suggestions for coding agent harnesses.

I'm very curious what coding agent interfaces other HN users are using.

I run a bunch of Claude / Codex TUIs + vim in terminal tabs on i3 workspaces on Linux whch I know isn't the most common.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by mattnewton » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

Congrats to the Cursor team!

When I first saw the company built on top of vscode in such a crowded field way back at the end of 2022, I thought "forget having a moat, they are renting their castle from the invaders!" - I couldn't see how see how a single team could execute well enough to effectively muscle their way in between Microsoft and OpenAI, who at that point looked destined to control the developer ecosystem between GitHub, VsCode and the then-best coding models. I think it's easy to forget how insane this seemed even just a few years ago.

But every year since then they managed to simply ship a better product on the axis that mattered to the most users. And now they are sitting between a huge user base and a massive stream of valuable tokens, they can sell to SpaceX. Incredibly impressive.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by red-iron-pine » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #422

A space company is buying an IDE for roughly the cost to build 150 of world's most expensive modern hospitals [1]. How is this in SpaceX's interest? Isn't it kinda bizarre that Elon is pivoting SpaceX to something else? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-spcx-cursor-acquisiti...

yeah but someone -- no one has explained who -- still thinks this is a good idea

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by ojr » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

This truly shows how king making in venture capital is done, kids have the MIT pedigree but sometimes this is not enough for certain demographics, give them a ton of money to explore ideas and pivot, product is a vscode fork that sells subsidized AI, only possible with venture capital. Providing inference at unsustainable rate deemed as "product market fit". Product loses money until they exit.

VCs that say "I always knew the team was special", give me a break.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by hintymad » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

I wonder why IDEA didn't catch up with its own agent support and even their own models. It's not like agent harness is that hard to build, right? Or maybe they did, it's just that they haven't won the hearts and minds of the developers like Cursor did?