Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative • Hacker News Board

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by zerotolerance » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC

LaurensBER wrote: post #39

3182876 wrote: post #26

Cursor 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.

All AI companies are valued as if they'll win the AI race. Problem is, only one can win * * That is, if a lab like Deepseek doesn't release a "good enough" model for the cost of electricity + a thin margin. Then all AI company lose and all consumers win.

Another outcome is that none win.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by wraptile » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:28 PM 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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You could argue that you don't care what Claude does after work hours as long as it works your hours as you expect it to. Grok clearly failed the latter.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by its_still_me0x0 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:30 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!

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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by nasso_dev » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:40 PM 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…

i agree, and i strongly believe atproto can be the standard to allow this in a decentralized way! which is why im so excited about tangled

https://tangled.org

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by viccis » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:42 PM UTC

whstl wrote: post #170

joshuat wrote: post #146

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I feel like the "GitHub is a mess" conversation is a little forced at times - I spend a significant portion of my work day in GitHub and while there have been an uptick in outages lately, it still feels like a very solid platform. I guess I personally wouldn't categorize it as a "mess" and the conversations I read about it here make me think I'm using an entirely different product than everyone else.

I love to hate on Github/Microsoft as much as the next person, but considering the insane amount of code being pushed to it every day, I'd say they're doing quite well.

It's falling apart at the seams for me. Half the time I click somewhere on a page, the whole thing freezes and I have to reload the page. Took forever to install neovim on a new machine today because all the plugins installed via Github and I had to wait like 10 minutes for it to come back up.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by ChicagoDave » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

I wouldn’t push someone else’s code into a Musk-owned repository.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by felooboolooomba » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:53 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.

Sigh, hi. My heart goes out to you.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

joshuahedlund wrote: post #318

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #310

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https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Is this a result of too much activity on GitHub (AI-driven jump in repos), though, rather than a fall?

Mostly it seems like greatly increased usage pushing their systems to the limit.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by drusepth » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

I feel like using a service like this that's owned by SpaceX (and, therefore, in close proximity to X / Musk / etc) would be even more of a supply chain risk than GitHub occasionally going down.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 12:06 AM UTC

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...

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