Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative • Hacker News Board

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by nomilk » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

s09dfhks wrote: post #115

My assumption is x.ai will be training on any code hosted here

Same for all other AI companies too.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by icrbow » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

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!

Please make it Fediverse/Forgejo/etc compatible. It is 2026 and I'm so tired of silos.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by ad_fontes » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:18 PM UTC

majorchord wrote: post #40

grandpajoey wrote: post #35

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But you'll comment on a website that funds Flock

Well, shit. I guess it's back to Slashdot then.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by seany » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:18 PM UTC

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.

if we're totally switching tooling, lets at least go to mercurial instead

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by ramoz » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

Physical custody of our work is going to be an important discussion for industry. ie where does your code live and how do you access it?

Every agent platform is moving toward you living with them, logging into them, working on their remote computers, only accessing your code and product artifacts with them. This is the caveat we will see with full push-to-cloud swing early on.

Maybe agentic no-code is the natural evolution but this push is happening too early and naively imo. It all feels wrong and I hope industry remains as dissatisfied with this type of lock-in as we’ve always been.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:20 PM UTC

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by gaigalas » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

seany wrote: post #124

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.

if we're totally switching tooling, lets at least go to mercurial instead

If we're switching, we should probably go to fossil instead.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by janfoeh » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

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.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by inquirerGeneral » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

nikole9696 wrote: post #88

Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this isn't a great idea. He'll use it to feed Grok. I'm not a big fan of Github right now either but I wouldn't consider this alternative due to its ownership chain.

I love how people like you actually think Elon actually wanted your data.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by SoKamil » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

Interesting that they still brand as Cursor instead of SpaceXAI