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Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by icy »

verdverm wrote: post #95
LelouBil wrote: post #64

I really hope more people would use Tangled ( https://tangled.org/ ) You get: - Self hosting your git hosting (if you want) - Self hosting your issues/PRs (if you want) - Self hosting your CI (if you want) - Github-like social features (I have one account, I can follow, star, add issues and PRs to any repo on tangled) It's built on ATProto, so even if the company disappears, all of the integration and features will s…

Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell. I don't use those techs, so I'm not interested to use a platform that I need to learn them to use. fwiw, the main site also seems to be down right now, infinite spinner. Docs and blog are loading though

> Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell. I don't use those techs, so I'm not interested to use a platform that I need to learn them to use.

Tangled CEO here. How are we pushing Rust exactly? :D Nix, yes but you don't really need to touch it at all with our Alpine-based CI images.

We have been under heavy load the past day or so, we're working round the clock to scale!

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by cryo32 »

janfoeh wrote: post #128
cryo32 wrote: post #114

GitHub is a mess so lets throw our code into a Musk owned enterprise, famously a different shade of mess? How about neither? Man I wish we stuck with Subversion at this point.

That makes very little sense to me. When your Subversion server is gone, you're hosed. When your Git forge is down, you take any old SSH shell account anywhere, push and keep working.

The last subversion server I had was on prem on VMware. There wasn’t any unscheduled downtime in a decade.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by mtaufen »

tomasreimers wrote: post #3

Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

There were some cool ideas in https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics. Should we expect Origin to be a foundation for working with agent swarms?

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by radley »

vorticalbox wrote: post #96
olejorgenb wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-...

it seems like they took reasonable steps after. They acknowledged that it happened, fixed the bug that caused it, deleted all data that was uploaded.

Trustworthy companies take reasonable steps before.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by jm4 »

bilalq wrote: post #144
xvilka wrote: post #109

Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4]. [1] https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

I feel like this misses the value of something like Github or Origin entirely though. There's nothing terribly difficult about hosting a git server. The UX and pull requests capabilities are a little involved, but there are alternatives today. What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools have special UX around Github. You need centralization (or at the very leas…

It sucks to see Github's fall from grace, but I just can't bring myself to use a service like this under the custody of SpaceX.

Agreed. It's like going from bad to worse. Not to mention, Origin doesn't even support actions. They are doing the easiest part of git hosting and no mention of anything that actually makes Github what it is. What Origin is offering is literally a weekend project, and anything having to do with Elon is arguably one of the least trustworthy organizations in whatever industry he chooses to participate in. No, thank you.

This is going nowhere. GitLab is the cautionary tale. Massive funding, nine figures of ARR, years of losses, and most of the revenue comes from self-managed enterprise licenses rather than the SaaS. If the best-funded attempt lands there, I don't see how this one goes anywhere when they have not even a minimum viable product and reputational issues right out of the gate.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by verandaguy »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #162
dbbk wrote: post #104

Given Grok was just caught uploading whole codebases and sensitive .envs without permission, how can anyone possibly trust this?

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Not GP, but personally I don’t trust claude. Work does for some reason, and work strongly encourages using it, but i stay far away outside of that.

I think every product in this space should have to clear a very high bar for trust rather than making it a race to the bottom with whataboutisms.

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