Birbla

Join the discussion

Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.

Sign in
  • Hacker News
  • Related:

    Cursor Origin Code Hosting

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209

    by ChrisArchitect
  • from what i read, its just that lots of old features are integrated tightly with github are affected. that is to be expected right?
    by tuananh
  • GitHub example shows clearly that service reliability is really overrated. No one is seriously going to leave GitHub because of reliability. Maybe there's some lone power users, but most companies (mine included) don't even discuss it.

    Same as Slack: if it down -- it's down, we just wait.

    by deepsun
  • This is a weird comment to make as it presumes there's a real alternative. There is barely any real competition yet. I'm sure Cursor won't be the first to start putting pressure on them.

    I wouldn't be surprised if Linear starts pushing further into Github's markets as well. They already have a better diff engine than Github.

    by dmix
  • i know of at least a few big orgs that had enough and went on prem. and switched off slack even
    by sitzkrieg
  • Gitlab does exist
    by telotortium
  • > No one is seriously going to leave GitHub because of reliability

    had a discussion with the team yesterday, literally every one wants to leave and looking for the best alternative

    by _davide_
  • Also people angrily declare that they will leave, the second the downtime is over that thought already disappears.
    by dewey
  • Missed opportunity having this being a pro feature, having it free would have paid for itself in training data down the line.
    by whywhywhywhy
  • Title phrasing sounds like Cursor Origin is GitHub's new Git platform.

    It's not, the the good old Cursor's (the IDE) new Git platform.

    by djfdat
  • i see how you could say that but absolutely no one is confused
    by swyx
  • I assume it's talking about syncing/migrating from github -> origin? And not that github is hte actual upstream of origin? That would be great though
    by johntash
  • So they announce this to try and take people away from GitHub, but it also depended on GitHub? Am I reading this irony correctly?
    by techgnosis
  • If you read the status page:

    > This incident affected: Automations, Review Agents, Cloud Agents, and Origin.

    Cursor has built a code review bot (https://cursor.com/bugbot) which integrates with Github similar to Greptile/Coderabbit. Origin has a feature which imports existing github repos to onboard new users. Automation and cloud agents is self explanatory.

    by dmix
  • In this field rebranding/rebadging things is very common. Cursor is no stranger, they tried to pass off Kimi 2.5 as their own awhile ago.
    by vachina
  • I just opened cursor and was presented with a modal dialog with a "Try Origin" button and zero option to dismiss it. Had to nuke the cursor process to get it to go away. At least they didn't show it again at relaunch.
    by TowerTall