The main thing that makes GitHub the default is that almost every other service considers it the default. Launching a better product won't change that.
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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You do know you can run git on your own machine, on pretty much any Linux/Unix based server, run it entirely peer-to-peer if you wish... or use Gitlab, including self-hosted Gitlab, or one of many other Git based servers?
Yeah. I just don't really like git. The user interface is dog shit, merging is nasty, it's really easy to blow your own toes off and it's generally horrible. The only reason it got anywhere was github.
That must have been why the used it to manage the linux kernel, because of github
/s
Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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There seems to be basically nothing new here
Except it promises not to crash regularly.
I don't really see that as a USP considering;
1. SpaceXAI has shown no track record of being able to maintain uptime
2. By nature, any GitHub alternative is going to be a tiny fraction of the scale, so keeping it up should be expected
Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
#264upvote for WAL + object storage (a very powerful combination I am finally seeing more adoption of) and a lot of interesting historical details.
I'm fortunate I don't rely on any forge for my solo work except for backups. In my personal stack I just have a log and content-addressed object kv storage, which can project to git if needed, or can be committed to git as files. And docker if I need isolation for CI/CD.
The most interesting alternative to me is atomic.dev (check their very informative blog posts) but I'll be keeping an eye on all of them.
Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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It's been 5 hours and instead of "any" questions, you have only been happy to answer the 1 question that hasn't put you in a tight spot. Honestly, that does not look too good for you or the offering - and this is coming from someone that just chose Cursor over Claude Code a week ago.
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And you cannot English
Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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Literally your source: > her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material He could have used Stable Diffusion. Or, if this was the 90s, Photoshop. By your argument, we’d have to abolish the internet, or add nanny filters to everything. How many people on HN resent it when Claude refuses an instruction? And yet here you are, arguing against personal responsibility an…
Come on, man. Not allowing products to generate CP is too high of a bar? By your logic cops should be focused on the junkies, forget about the cartel
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it didn't actually generate CP, it changed people into bikinis, not actual nudity.
You can go to the beach or (I assume) search on Google and find people of any age wearing bikinis. And that's fine because to normal people (not pedos) it's not something sexual.
I understand that someone specifically editing a minor into less clothing is probably a pedo. Probably the same way someone generating feet gets aroused with that stuff. But that doesn't mean a model generating feet is problematic.
I do think making the model reject the bikini thing is a good idea once you find out it's happening, but let's not pretend it's the same as the model generating actual sexual content.
Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
#267Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue . But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.
> Cursor is allegedly worth $60B
Inflated valuation of buyout, based on inflated valuation of SpaceX
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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
#269Hi 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!
It's been 5 hours and instead of "any" questions, you have only been happy to answer the 1 question that hasn't put you in a tight spot. Honestly, that does not look too good for you or the offering - and this is coming from someone that just chose Cursor over Claude Code a week ago.
He’s trying to do his job and the angry mob predictably came in to bully an easy target about unrelated things. Just take a look at some of the (thankfully flagged, mostly) responses.
Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
#270They couldn't even pay me to use that product.