alt Hacker NewsCursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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First attempt, they stole the code from customers. Now they will try to ask people to voluntarily give them code.
It's funny that they are trying to replace GitHub by the part that already has multiple alternatives tho. This will fail without a doubt.
This is a good start. You can connect it to 3rd party apps to do CI Runners, etc. Hoping it develops quickly and becomes more fleshed out.
The main limitation right now is that to share the code with anyone outside your Cursor organization, you need to sync it with GitHub.
Vibe coders rejoice! Vibe coding is even easier now =)
Jokes aside, this is a smart move by Cursor. As you can probably tell by the comments here, it's not for the experienced developers, but it will be a natural choice for vibe coders.
I would only host worthless stuff there
They couldn't even pay me to use that product.
I was annoyed seeing unskippable "ad" within Cursor about it. Looked like a huge banner "give us control over all your code" with only one visible button to consent
oh yeah i'd love to feed these guys training data
I would never host my code with Elon Musk. I've also moved on from using Cursor to Claude Code/Codex. GitHub has problems, but this is likely (and hopefully) DOA.
Been waiting ages for them to post any kind of non-comingsoon page about this thing. Wonder if they pushed up the launch based on the earlier GitHub outage buzz.
If you're willing to trust them with all your source code...kudos, I really wish I had your level of trust and delusion
I don’t want a GitHub alternative. I want a Git replacement. Please make a version control system that isn’t overwhelmingly mediocre (at best).
Musk is one of the last people I'd trust to centralise all my code with.
Hmmmm not sure I want to put my code in Elon’s hands. I’d rather let super flakey Microsoft/Github have it, still. That man and his companies need less influence and he needs less control not more of jt.
Not sharing my private git repos with Elon Musk owned company.
Has GitHub made it harder for them to scrape to train on?
Never going to sign up based on the association to Elon Musk.
No thanks. I’ll stick to self hosted forgejo.
It sure worked for Meta's Threads
Such an insult to vibe code a new github and then expect developers to handle code to them so they can train on it.
So first they steal the source code in bulk, and now they are like fuck it, just send us your source code? Musk does indeed play 1d checkers.
A Musk controlled company to look at my private repos?
Let me thing about it.
No.
It's so strange. Sad even. Microsoft has never been the most competent, but the fact that people are just incapable of stabalizing github is just bizarre.
At a certain point, just working there will become a death knell for anyone's career. And it certainly must be getting harder to hire good people. The spiral will be relentless, and I see no work to stop it.
Sad.
There is no way I'm giving my codebase to Elon. I don't care if its a petclinic scaffold in java 1.0, absolutely 0 chance of me using this.
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?
Tried to register:
> Access blocked, please contact support.
No link to contact support, on help page no way to contact the actual support. Classic Musk tech.
I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!
now that software is easy to make and github has problems, how many "git as a service" offerings will there be?
My guess is there will be at least dozens if not hundreds.
Never going to try it, sorry for anyone at cursor who was excited about what they were working on.
This completely fails to address one of the issues that people have with Github, which is the use of AI, whether you like it or not.
No free tier, surprised..
If by now you're willing to make EM the guardian of your code, nothing I can say would dissuade you.
How about an original and distinguishable name?
Then again, what did I expect from a company named cursor.
GitHub sync = defeat?
How do you think does Microsoft start to do some thing better? At least cut slop form windows or put more effort in gh?
Man, I was disappointed - hoped this used something like darcs under the hood
and to think we let phabricator wither on the vine...
No actions replacement means this is a nothingburger in a lettuce wrap.
which fanless "mini pc" can run a github clone on my local network? ideally proxmox support so i can use it as a mini lab for other things
I am quite starting to like this timeline. I hard boycotted GitHub for ten years after the meritocracy rug fiasco. I went back there dragging my feet while transferring hundreds of repos a few years ago ...
Origin has a chance to be the future of this space, with a clean slate and reputation. I pray they don't soil it.
thanks I hate it
Ah, another post about Cursor.
About half of the comments will be generic criticisms of Twitter, SpaceX, etc. for things that may or may not have happened, or personal complaints about Elon Musk.
Is it just me or is this thing just a poor man's version of GitHub?
if its another place that offers free computer through their version of GitHub Actions I;d call it a win.
Let's see how strong GitHub's network effect really is.
While the real solution is to actually self-host as I said before [0], it is worth testing to see how much can GitHub's users tolerate the endless outages and unreliability and where they go next.
We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub.
Does this have stacked PRs? Cursor acquired Graphite a while back and stacked PRs were a killer feature.
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This is very cool but there's no way they won't train on your private repos, in a way that github has been pleasantly respectful of. I have issues with github, but the recent uptime issues are more related to people uploading way more code due to AI than some sort of mismanagement.