Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

Post by mrheosuper » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC

runeblaze wrote: post #406

guhcampos wrote: post #223

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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.

you are asking a presumably IC or IC-ish worker on decisions that are out of their control or things that should be directed to sales people or the legal people we all have worked on software. we all know we aren't exactly the best people to point to ToS or how decisions are made higher up from us

Post by mrheosuper » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 3:31 AM UTC

chris_money202 wrote: post #241

theplatman wrote: post #118

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are they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this

Azure is at capacity; GH offers a lot of services for free or heavily discounted. Especially when its public repo. These aren't profit generating for Microsoft, so they are not the priority with the capacity Azure has available. GH is probably struggling with these capacity and budget constraints. They also still have some AWS and non-azure DCs in use. Once Azure's massive spend is online things will slowly get bette…

Post by nullbio » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 3:34 AM UTC

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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Post by pksunkara » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 3:49 AM UTC

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…

Post by DaSHacka » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 4:19 AM UTC

gverrilla wrote: post #415

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!

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