Commentary frames Origin's timing as capitalizing on GitHub's instability
6 Aug 18 3:47 PM · 6d ago · 1 article · 9 posts · 20 comments · 3 sources · development 6 of 7
The New Stack argued Origin's launch was made more compelling by GitHub's ongoing reliability problems, a framing echoed across tech outlets covering the coincidence of the launch and outage.
“Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? ... He'll use it to feed Grok.”
nikole9696, HN commenter · hn ↗Cursor AI coding company launching OriginGitHub Incumbent code-hosting platformElon Musk / xAI Reported owner tied to Cursor, cited by critics@mehedih_ Developer critic on X
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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]
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🚀 In a world where # GitHub reigns supreme, # Cursor boldly declares, "Nah, we'll do it too!" # Origin , their audacious venture, promises to host your code—because who doesn't love another # clone of the same thing? 🙄 Expect mind-blowing features like... creating a repo! 🎉 https:// cursor.com/changelog/origin-co de-hosting # CodeHosting #…
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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…
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Cursor has launched Origin, allowing users to host code on its AI platform, with features like code repositories, GitHub sync, pull requests, and third-party app integration. Origin is now available in beta for paid users. https:// alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/…
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git is such a good platform for decentralized tech. Forfeiting that advantage is just criminal. What I really want (and almost have) is a local GitHub for me and agents. With 4+ orchestrators working with a ton of subagents, things get difficult to coordinate. Several days ago, I went back to plain git and it was real slow and abrasive to work…
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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…
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upvote 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…
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Would love if you focus on performance. A big reason I have to have custom software is that agents can act much faster than humans but SaaS software is usually not well-designed enough to handle high RPS so rate-limits are low. I can easily outperform commercial hosts myself. At the least, it would be sick to have separate tenancy so that I could…
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are you maybe also planning to do cross device/cloud realtime sync like a mutagen feature set kind of? so cloud and local agents can work faster together?this could be helpful on larger cross platform products/repos (maybe too overfitted on my use case, since i am working across multiple devices (ssh works but the repo code sync is a bit of an…
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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.
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I actually think the cursor acquisition will destroy value, unless completely left alone by Elon. Cursor's strength is its brand, and they should add more services, but should not integrate with Grok whatsoever.
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In my opinion, they should focus on code quality and how they can compete better than other IDEs. These things can be done by extensions on Antigravity. I personally made one of the extensions called 'Wekraft' currently has 1.1K downloads. What is your favourite IDE?
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I can't imagine reaching for this instead of GitLab, GitTea, or one of the many other more mature and open source alternatives. Going for the managers, directors, and CTOs that make decisions and face no consequences if they negatively impact the team, I guess.
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I wonder how Gitlab slipped this obvious AI market opportunity, they had very good position in code self hosting used by so many enterprises.just add repo-level agents, org-level agents and done. they could have got 50B valuation by now
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Forgejo federation being mentioned each time never stops being silly. It hasn't been a thing for years, and they don't appear to have made any meaningful progress to show for.
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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.
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This was posted yesterday and now it’s being reposted and all of the old comments have had their timestamps reset. What gives mods? Did Musk request this?
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Given Grok was just caught uploading whole codebases and sensitive .envs without permission, how can anyone possibly trust this?
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ahh so thats the game plan: train codebases even if they are not written in or by by Cursor agents.
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