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].<p>[1] <a href="https://radicle.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://radicle.dev/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5" rel="nofollow">https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://forgejo.org/" rel="nofollow">https://forgejo.org/</a><p>[4] <a href="https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...</a>
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.<p>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 least, a standard) for that.<p>It sucks to see Github's fall from grace, but I just can't bring myself to use a service like this under the custody of SpaceX. I've been saying this for a while, but I really wish Linear would swoop in and become the unified platform for software development.
<i>It sucks to see Github's fall from grace, but I just can't bring myself to use a service like this under the custody of SpaceX.</i><p>Agreed. It's like going from bad to worse. Not to mention, Origin doesn't even support actions. They are doing the easiest part of git hosting and no mention of anything that actually makes Github what it is. What Origin is offering is literally a weekend project, and anything having to do with Elon is arguably one of the least trustworthy organizations in whatever industry he chooses to participate in. No, thank you.<p>This is going nowhere. GitLab is the cautionary tale. Massive funding, nine figures of ARR, years of losses, and most of the revenue comes from self-managed enterprise licenses rather than the SaaS. If the best-funded attempt lands there, I don't see how this one goes anywhere when they have not even a minimum viable product and reputational issues right out of the gate.
The thing with Gitlab is probably that it had to deal with the network effect/winner takes all conundrum. GitHub was first on the scene, it was the first to make a centralised hub popular and it has had the custom of many notable open source projects.<p>Gitlab as a product is miles ahead of GitHub at this point. (Except at the point of scaling very large repositories I gather.) There is just very little money in saas beside the bespoke enterprise contracts.<p>I’m not sure how revenue between GitHub and Gitlab compared before the Microsoft acquisition and now but GitHub has always leaned on being the popular tool with the network.
Actions should be decoupled from the version control system.
In theory, sure, but the reality is that "development activity" revolves around "codebase". Plenty of projects have separate bug tracker, source code control and CI system. Most people likely prefer GitHub's all-in-one solution, especially for small-medium open source projects.
I disagree. The integrated workflow of actions, issues, code review and source control is a huge productivity win. There’s a reason people chase a “single pane of glass”.
What do you mean by "Github's fall from grace"? What happened?
> a standard<p>Like a specification[^0], which is exactly what ActivityPub is and what federation in Forgejo is built around?<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub</a><p>I'm sure that sentry and co could spend a few bucks and commit a KPI in one of their upcoming quarters to figure out the activity pub spec and support integrating with it if their hearts desired. It's a chicken egg problem and we all know chickens exist. It's clear that the centralized model is getting left behind, especially as the EU is moving away from US services and they continue to invest in open source, European-based alternatives like Codeberg and Forgejo.
The communication protocol is not what I mean here. The feature-sets and capabilities around "pull requests", "reviews", "comments", "checks", "issues", "projects", "deployments", "releases", etc are all different across platforms. You have to integrate bespoke for each platform. There is no universal standard for how CI/CD, deployment tracking, project management, etc are done.<p>Yes, Sentry or whoever else could build a Codeberg integration, or a Forgejo one, or a Gitlab one. But these would all be bespoke. There is no standard. So the one with the biggest market share ends up with the most integrations. This is where we are today.<p>I'm all for open standards. But I don't even know of a proposal for such a standard.<p>Sure, with AI tooling, you can vibe code your own browser extensions or other integrations in some cases. But for a lot of platforms, that just won't cut it. That's before we even get into the maintenance burden of that.
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<p><a href="https://tangled.org" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org</a>
That used to be a big deal. I don't think it is anymore.<p>One great thing about the rise of AI is that now it's super easy to make and maintain integrations. This is a place where AI coding uniquely shines due to the points being well defined and mostly quite standard.<p>This is going to hurt the monopoly power of software companies. But it'll be great for allowing the proliferation of smaller companies, open source, and home grown solutions.<p>I'm already seeing the pendulum swinging back to local first instead of cloud services.
Agreed on all points.<p>I think people often forget that GitHub is really more akin to a social network than it is a software development tool.<p>By that I mean the stuff that makes GitHub great is all the same stuff that originally made social networks exciting (back before the algorithm was tuned into a horrifying cycle of negativity).
You can get surprisingly far just by using git as a protocol. Such mundane things as tickets and chat logs do not really need any proprietary tech. Think Google OKF. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-the-open-knowledge-format-can-improve-data-sharing" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...</a>
> You need centralization (or at the very least, a standard) for that.<p>We have a standard! It’s this great decentralized VCS called git. For most of the stuff integrations do, they’re just showing code or commits — both of which are readily available in a copy of the repo.<p>Probably the one thing that’s missing is a standardized webhook system so that your git repo storage could tell integrations when stuff changes. Though even that isn’t strictly necessary if the integrations keep a copy of the repo up to date.
Git is absolutely miserable without things that GitHub, GitLab, and others provide, and there's still a <i>huge</i> ceiling to grow into in terms of layering on UX on top of Git.<p>In my opinion, Git is holding software development back. Git only cares about lines of text. This is not enough in today's world.
Lots of standards are terrible without the actual tools on top of them (try making an HTTP request with just a network socket).<p>But that doesn’t mean we should have single centralized tool that does everything.<p>I’d posit there’s no big loss if you broke these things up and each had their own copy the repo (if needed):<p>- CI/CD<p>- issues<p>- code review/pull requests<p>- release artifact distribution<p>- discovery+social credit for open source<p>You could host your repo on any dumb storage somewhere that speaks git+ssh or git+https and each tool could pull from there.
Why not? LLMs also only care about lines of text.
> Git only cares about lines of text. This is not enough in today's world.<p>I'm working on git-inspired VCS based on syntax tree nodes stored in prolly trees. Might that be enough? I've not 100% locked down the format yet, but tentatively it looks like this: <a href="https://gist.github.com/conartist6/7dd40697140965ee343de93b9a47eabc" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/conartist6/7dd40697140965ee343de93b9...</a>
> <i>I've been saying this for a while, but I really wish Linear would swoop in and become the unified platform for software development.</i><p>And then, 5 years later, we are back at square one when everybody uses Linear and they start going the fate of GitHub. Self-hostable, standardized alternatives are the only real sustainable solution.
Centralizations were prerequisites to have nice integrations. Yet, what used to be a precious plugin now (more than often) is a 15 min vibe coding warmup.
<a href="https://tangled.sh" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.sh</a>
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 with.<p>With some wizardry applied, I effectively have an "Excel for worktrees", a very productive and low-friction environment. <a href="https://replicated.live/blog/crdt" rel="nofollow">https://replicated.live/blog/crdt</a>
You don't sacrifice decentralization when you use Github. You can still do all the same decentralized stuff, have other copies of the repo, do everything offline, directly pull from other checkouts, etc. Github can just be ONE of the places you push your code to, it doesn't have to be the only place.
I just use git with a remote and a custom CI system. The whole thing is trivial to build. All these forgejo etc are kind of over complicated software. Open Office of the modern world.
GIT over Reticulum has been my major focus recently. Check it out!
<a href="https://reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Rngit" rel="nofollow">https://reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Rngit</a>
Or just store it in an S3 bucket with GitSocial: <a href="https://gitsocial.org/" rel="nofollow">https://gitsocial.org/</a>
you mean you dont want a singe company to have all your code?
Decentralized solutions invariably appeal to a narrow sliver of nerds but never gain popular acceptance.
Exactly, decentralized solution is perfect!
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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.
GitHub is a mess so lets throw our code into a Musk owned enterprise, famously a different shade of mess?<p>How about neither?<p>Man I wish we stuck with Subversion at this point.
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.<p>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.
When you work at an enterprise that depends on Github, frequent outages are actually a pretty big deal and begin to impact productivity in a real way.
It feels to me like this is a case of very rapid increase in load from AI pr's more than product quality degrading because of cruft or poor maintenance. It's annoying but I'm not confident that alternatives will do better in the long run vs GitHub (which I'm guessing will improve with time)
Yeah and if I was an enterprise I would definitely be self hosting with Forgejo or Gerrit or whatever. But I think for most hobbyists GitHub is still totally fine.<p>I use it quite a lot and the first time I actually witnessed downtime myself was yesterday.
github for hobbyists and small orgs and simple open source projects is wonderful.<p>github for large project that rely on CI tool is a nightmare (cost, downtime, etc.)<p>I'm guessing you dont know about the github actions bug that was running and endless loop consuming 100% cpu costing orgs insane amounts of money that they didn't fix for 3 years.
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.
I disagree. They’ve been struggling with up time for a long time, this seems more related to their move to azure than anything else.<p>It also shows there’s a fundamental problem with their architecture or their development pattern to have these sorts of issues so frequently.
I'd emphasize their practices as being the culprit.<p>Migrating to different cloud vendors, while difficult, is something that people have done many times before. There's only finite number of incongruences that appear when moving cloud vendors. It's rather difficult to explain the ongoing problems <i>several years</i> after the fact.<p>Anyone that's worked at a startup knows that one of the best things about it is reflecting on all of the asinine, if not genuinely stupid policies of your previous employer so as not to repeat them. Without any insider knowledge, the practices and procedures GitHub had prior to acquisition probably look nothing like those post-acquisition.
Very solid? Bro. GitHub is at what, one 9 of reliability? That's a disaster. That's a mess and an embarrassment in any professional sense.<p>I use GitHub a lot and it does what I need well enough, but I wouldn't spend money on the level of service or performance it generally delivers.
Git is objectively better than Subversion. The problem is we are conflating a widely used <i>hosting service</i> with the underlying SCM. We don't need github to use git successfully. Sure, it's nice, but you can install Forgejo or something, which is the exact same boat we were in with Subversion + Trac. You can have that experience right now if you want to.<p>What github is good for is discovery, getting contributions on open source projects (because it's so popular), and integrations. If you wanted to, you could host your open source project on Forgejo and use github as a mirror just to benefit from the visibility and get contributions.
100% not a chance for me. I'd rather host it myself on a Pi on a 56k dialup connection with 12% uptime then ever let an Elon related company touch my code.
This is the correct answer, but let me add a corolarium, both github, whatever cursor launches and any other bigco does obeys to the same friking iron law: *MAKE MONEY/POWER AT ANY COST, MONEY/POWER IS THE OBJECTIVE*, so you will get EXACTLY the same result from each one of them given enough time has passed.
You do know you can run git on your own machine, on pretty much any Linux/Unix based server, run it entirely peer-to-peer if you wish... or use Gitlab, including self-hosted Gitlab, or one of many other Git based servers?
You don’t even need a “gut based” server. Git doesn’t care about the transport
Yeah. I just don't really like git. The user interface is dog shit, merging is nasty, it's really easy to blow your own toes off and it's generally horrible. The only reason it got anywhere was github.
Okay, well, nothing’s stopping folks from using hg, P4, svn, CVS, RCCS, MS Visual Source Safe, ClearCase, or who knows what else.
That must have been why the used it to manage the linux kernel, because of github<p>/s
Or Perforce. Perforce, in my experience, just worked. It also has sane conceptual names for things, a good CLI, SDKs, visual tools, cool features like workspaces that Git completely lacks, etc.
Just the association with Musk will mean no EU company should use Cursor or its products.
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.
The last subversion server I had was on prem on VMware. There wasn’t any unscheduled downtime in a decade.
I like Musk companies more than most here it seems, I think he’s a net positive to the world. But (admittedly sans hard evidence) he absolutely gives me the vibe he’d train on my source code without my permission. I simply don’t trust him in this arena.<p>So there is more to lose than just the service being unreliable.
Musk is toxic waste
if we're totally switching tooling, lets at least go to mercurial instead
This feels like an attempt to get more of Musk's non-coder fans to start vibe coding slop-products. "You can now code with Grok via Cursor and host your code on Origin, all without leaving Daddy Elon's ecosystem."
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.<p>I'm not a big fan of Github right now either but I wouldn't consider this alternative due to its ownership chain.
I wouldn't even feel comfortable <i>cloning</i> from it, let alone contributing. If you decide to host your project there, please mirror it somewhere sane as well.
Yup, same sentiment here. Thank you
They were also caught having their Grok code agent upload entire source code repositories in the background.<p>I guess the joke is "come to Origin, your code is already there".
[Feature Request] Sign-in with your Tesla account ... /s
I love how people like you actually think Elon actually wanted your data.
Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite (<a href="https://graphite.com" rel="nofollow">https://graphite.com</a>).<p>Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!
Given Grok was just caught uploading whole codebases and sensitive .envs without permission, how can anyone possibly trust this?
It's been 5 hours and instead of "any" questions, you have only been happy to answer the 1 question that hasn't put you in a tight spot.<p>Honestly, that does not look too good for you or the offering - and this is coming from someone that just chose Cursor over Claude Code a week ago.
He’s trying to do his job and the angry mob predictably came in to bully an easy target about unrelated things. Just take a look at some of the (thankfully flagged, mostly) responses.
I'm going through and flagging the guideline-breaking comments (e.g. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348639">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348639</a>) - I'd encourage you to do that, too, to help preserve the quality of HN.
Thanks, every Musk-related thread on HN is like this, it's very tiresome. We get it, the man is controversial but I'm not on HN to read reddit-like kneejerk comments, I want to read insightful and technical ones.
you cannot count isn't it?
Do you have full trust in that Elon would never abuse the access to sensitive data? What protections are in place to prevent Elon from stealing data?
What I don't understand from the blog post is what's different in this offering than github - is it just the agentic tie ins where I can ask my agent to make changes while browsing the PR?<p>Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem?
Expect a lot more from us.<p>We wanted to release a beta so people could start experimenting with our scalability and extensibility themselves. Over the next few weeks, you can expect a handful of features starting to change source control to better understand and work with agents.
Are there any plans for compatibility with GitHub's APIs?<p>I have a lot of dev tooling which assumes code is stored on public GitHub and/or GitHubEnterprise. This produces some degree of lock-in, in that all that code would have to be rewritten to migrate to something else. (Yes, AIs can help, but they still don't make migration effortless.)<p>The major Git hosters tend to implement roughly the same concepts, albeit with lots of little variations. It would be great if there were some sort of standardised API everyone implemented. In the absence of that, it makes sense for people to emulate the incumbent's APIs as a de facto standard, just like how other vendors copy OpenAI's APIs for talking to LLMs.
It seems to have 2 way sync of PRs, issues, issue comments etc, so it must be pretty much the same data model, so they could probably have a compatible API.
Experimenting with your "scalability?" mean?
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There seems to be basically nothing new here
The idea is that it's like Github but it stays up even as your commit/CI frequency increases. As a customer I'm stoked and looking forward to fully switching over as that's exactly what I want.
A quick question: Where can I read your TOS, and other legal documents?<p>Knowing things like: Will my code end up in Grok? What ownership do I have of my content, etc... matter.
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 absolutely slam my own instance without having to deal with some other chump complaining.
What's the biggest differentiator to GitHub (other than uptime). I keep hearing something along the lines of "GitHub for Agents" but would be great to hear from the devs of Origin what they actually think it means in tangible features/functionality?
Today, very little. We're intentionally releasing this as a Github alternative where we meet them toe-to-toe on functionality.<p>Over the next few weeks you can expect a lot more from us on integrations with agents, understanding agent-written code (without having to read through all of the code), and automatically getting your PRs to a mergable state. Stay tuned :)
So, a complex, vibe-coded platform that was prematurely pushed out to opportunistically take advantage of GitHub's egg-on-face moment? But it doesn't do anything better? And it's owned by the same guy who routinely takes shortcuts that causes both EVs and rockets to crash? Sign me up!
How reassuring to hear that it's an intentional release, rather than totally accidental.
You haven't answered much but I must recognize posting this was brave.
There were some cool ideas in <a href="https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics" rel="nofollow">https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics</a>. Should we expect Origin to be a foundation for working with agent swarms?
Please make it a worthy competitor for Github in terms of features, stability, scalability and availability and wishing your team all the best.
Cool but irrelevant. I was a paying user of Cursor until it got acquired by Musk. Ethical concerns about Grok aside, that's probably the least trustworthy person to be affiliated with when it comes to anything with any level of confidentiality.<p>So, I guess, do you have any illusions of attracting international customers who aren't online edgelords?
Completely unrelated to Origin, but are there plans for closer integration of Graphite with Cursor? A combined product would be a very compelling product, but not much seems to have changed since the acquisition.
Are you interested in integrating with more CI platforms, including less "traditional" ones, like dagger.io? If so I would love to talk :)
Absolutely! Feel free to shoot me an email at tomas at anysphere dot co.
Solomon, please don't make bed with Elon
Why are you doing this?
Are you hiring?
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?<p>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 overhead with multiple agents and devices that could be better))
Why do I need to link github for this?
Please make it Fediverse/Forgejo/etc compatible. It is 2026 and I'm so tired of silos.
Thoughts on Musk ownership of the "next GitHub"?
I think there are a large number of people I’d trust with my code before Musk, and some of them are already running public Git repo hosting.<p>xAI was caught uploading any repo their coding agent touched to their storage only last month. This isn’t about Musk’s ideology: it’s about his trustworthiness. He sincerely believes he’s the only person who can save the world and that allows him to justify an awful lot of moral lapses.
What kind of enforceable guarantees could we actually get that xAI won't use our private code for training? Not empty promises, guarantees that have legal teeth. This applies to anything with xAI or Cursor though, especially after last months' revelation that Cursor was uploading every repo it touched.
This question also applies to OpenAI, anthopic, GitHub (Microsoft) and any server you send your data too.
Not in the same way really. There aren't examples of OpenAI, Anthropic, or GitHub/Microsoft doing the sketchy things that xAI has been involved with. Those companies care a lot about the reputational damage that would come from flouting their customer's data privacy obligations.<p>Cursor/xAI was making a full copy of every repo it ever touched within the last month, and when caught, just acted like that was an accident. A system to download every repo you touch, and then upload it to persistent cloud storage, doesn't just happen by accident.
Unless you are an enterprise no one will be offering you such a guarantee. Even with the enterprise the bar has gone down a lot on expectations and compliance, every one is carrying/buying the SOC2 compliance certification these days.
I mean I think the auto uploading of repos already gives you the answer. This is untrustworthy.
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I do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying,<p>> "hey can you push to origin main?"<p>now has two separate meanings.<p>A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.
Hahaha, so true. this is going to be such a pain. Allocate time and context for fight with git :)
EA has also called its games platform Origin until last year when it was shuttered.
Yep. The same feeling )
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Well you see, there's this thing called an embedding and it sits inside a vector space and when attention is applied it disambiguates
I really hope more people would use Tangled (<a href="https://tangled.org/" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org/</a>)<p>You get:<p><pre><code> - Self hosting your git hosting (if you want)
- Self hosting your issues/PRs (if you want)
- Self hosting your CI (if you want)
- Github-like social features (I have one account, I can follow, star, add issues and PRs to any repo on tangled)
</code></pre>
It's built on ATProto, so even if the company disappears, all of the integration and features will still work for anyone that wants to run their own AppView (that is open-source), an AppView is basically the UI/Network-wide Data Aggregator for ATProto apps
Is non-self-hosting available for all of those things on Tangled? I don't want to run my own CI but I do want CI. I couldn't figure out if it was available last time I looked at Tangled.
Just to clarify, when you say "self host issues/PRs" is it mostly "self host a knot"? I kind of expected something similar to what you can do for CI but I'm not able to find any docs regarding self hosting issues and PRs outside of Tangled itself.
Oh I meant that as part of tangled, you can "control" your issues and PRs because they are on ATProto and just like any ATProto record can be hosted on any PDS you like and still be interoperable.<p>But after looking a bit more into it, they are still following the same model as Bluesky in that the author of an issue or comment or PR is the owner of the resource, and it lives on their PDS, but they are considering changing that (and I hope they do it soon) by having the record be created on the repo PDS (so the knot basically) and a pointer record on the user's PDS proving they are the author.<p>ATProto has all that's required to do so, so I hope they do it soon, they are still in alpha after all but I find the interoperability very promising because you can have independent code hosting regardless of the opinions of forge X (which I think is the main reason why people move away from GitHub), but still be a part of an interoperable ecosystem that acts just like it is a single platform.
Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell. I don't use those techs, so I'm not interested to use a platform that I need to learn them to use.<p>fwiw, the main site also seems to be down right now, infinite spinner. Docs and blog are loading though
> Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell. I don't use those techs, so I'm not interested to use a platform that I need to learn them to use.<p>Tangled CEO here. How are we pushing Rust exactly? :D Nix, yes but you don't really need to touch it at all with our Alpine-based CI images.<p>We have been under heavy load the past day or so, we're working round the clock to scale!
Hi since you are here, I find tangled amazing and I really hope it succeeds.<p>Since you are here, do you have any updates about the issue of issues and PRs living in the author's PDSs and not on the knot ? (Which also acts as the repository's PDS if I am not mistaken)<p><pre><code> > As time goes on we are re-assessing the idea of users owning what is "collaborative data" (issues, PRs, etc.) on their PDSes - soon may come the day that an issue also lives on the knot as a source of truth, with an accompanying pointer record on user PDS to attest that it's theirs.</code></pre>
> We have been under heavy load the past day or so, we're working round the clock to scale!<p>GitHub is saying the same thing<p>re: pushing, when I looked many months ago, it looked very much like the rust/nix/jj club, who are on average very opinionated about "good" tech choices and try to shoehorn others into using them. It's a culture I'm not interested in being around
Spindles (CI) can use configurable engines, which includes nixery or microvm (which is similar to github actions). You're not forced into nixos<p>I don't understand how it forces you to engage with Rust. It happens to be written in Rust but that shouldn't be a major consideration for a user
What does "forcing" mean here ?<p>If you want to build an alternative Knot implementation (git Hosting) you can use anything as long as the API is compatible ?<p>Same for all of the parts of Tangled really<p>Also, even if it's down, unlike GitHub you can self host your own AppView so it's never down for you
I wouldn’t push someone else’s code into a Musk-owned repository.
Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has <i>$144B revenue</i>.<p>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 *<p>* 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.
> only one can win<p>Why? I mean, if you assume that the moment some threshold of intelligence is reached it will suddenly explode and self-improve at a pace no one would be able to ever catch up with, then yes probably only one can win. But I think it’s more sci-fi than reality which is often more nuanced and boring.
And that one can only win if it convinces leaders to regulate AI so that opensource models don't get good enough.
Another outcome is that none win.
What does it even mean to "win the AI race" ?<p>Right now there are many providers providing different tradeoffs, for different usages.<p>Would "winning" mean releasing an all-purpose better model that will outperform every other companies for all kind of tasks ? Something like AGI but cost effective ?<p>Or is it winning the consumer-side AI race ? Like making a kind of "super personal AI assistant" the likes you would see in movies and TVs ?<p>I'm not arguing, I am just struggling to understand what it usually means when somebody says that, it's not like competitors will go bankrupt the second OpenAI/Anthropic/Whatever does something specific.
I think "winning" means being able to live up to their valuations. The market is not big enough for all of these companies to be worth as much as they claim. In that sense they must "win" or experience massive downward adjustment in their values.
In that case I doubt there will ever be a "winner" because these valuations are not based in reality.
So “winning” could mean everyone experiences massive downward adjustment, but your valuation is still highest?
There's probably some holes in the analogy is you stretch it far enough. I'm hoping to "win" as a user by local models hitting a performance breakthrough and not needing any of these companies. I think the OP was generally making the point I mentioned though, that there's not room for all of these valuations, maybe one.
People believe that it will be a market with very few winners.
>What does it even mean to "win the AI race" ?<p>Creating a world-ruling AGI which feels mild sympathy for its creators, sharing some table scraps with them. Not sure if /s...
> good enough" model for the cost of electricity<p>This already exists, in several tiers, depending on what you can afford to run (in terms of VRAM).<p>Deepseek V Flash 0731 is already good enough for many things.
And winning the AI race means being the biggest loser. LLMs aren't profitable.
Comparing revenue across industries/verticals is not sound.<p>Mercedes has a ~5% profit margin on this revenue.<p>SaaS, even AI SaaS is expected to have much higher profit margins at scale.<p>And on top of that, Mercedes shrunk by 10% revenue over the last year, rather than growing, which makes sense because they missed EVs and are now managing decline and returning money to shareholders.
> Cursor is allegedly worth $60B<p>Inflated valuation of buyout, based on inflated valuation of SpaceX
i just wish the bubble would pop already. I'm just so over ai.
Cursor and Mercedes Benz is a weird comparison. One company is working on the future technology while the other one is stuck in the last centuries technology which is being phased out.
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.
"Legacy Privacy Mode disables code storage, so you can't set up a Codebase. Switch to a different privacy mode below to continue."
The only other privacy mode is to share data for Cursor to do training.<p>All your codebases are belong to us.
Having an AI company host your source code is giving your source code to an untrustworthy agent who might break their sandbox and might use your source code to accomplish a task that they have been given in their testing ground, for testing purposes only, that would definitely positively not ever be used for non-testing purposes.
I'm not hosting my code with a company that creates child porn:<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/15/woman-alleges-grok-made-thousands-sexual-abuse-images-childhood-snap/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/15/woman-a...</a><p><a href="https://katv.com/news/local/prominent-arkansas-photographer-charged-for-creating-deepfake-child-porn" rel="nofollow">https://katv.com/news/local/prominent-arkansas-photographer-...</a>
Literally your source:<p>> her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material<p>He could have used Stable Diffusion. Or, if this was the 90s, Photoshop.<p>By your argument, we’d have to abolish the internet, or add nanny filters to everything.<p>How many people on HN resent it when Claude refuses an instruction? And yet here you are, arguing against personal responsibility and for a when-in-doubt-block approach to technology. Is it because it’s Musk?
But you'll comment on a website that funds Flock
I pay $0 for this website, and there's no advertising (or if there is, I adblock it).
Well, shit. I guess it's back to Slashdot then.
That's a good point. I hate Flock and YC should be ashamed of funding it. Still, Musk has a wall to wall record of horrific actions going back years. The Grok CSAM is the worst I've seen yet though. Absolute deal breaker.
That's horrific and the saddest thing I've read in a really long time. I'm glad I erased my Twitter account and I'm definitely not using this code host. Seriously, this is horrible.
Interesting that they still brand as Cursor instead of SpaceXAI
My assumption is x.ai will be training on any code hosted here
Same for all other AI companies too.
I think Source Hut has 0 ai features. Or time to start self hosting.
What do you think github copilot is trained on?
I'm going to take a while guess here and say this strategy is part of their plan to get even more access to more code to learn from.<p>If you can see entire version histories of how code is generated, what bugs occur, what fixes are made and how they're implemented, you have the entire human and machine coding feedback loop to learn from.
Seems like a boring bet. The Github way of working is from the anthropocene era. We need new primitives for agents invokved in tech solutions. Pull requests? Issues? CI? They all seem like they'll go away. Cursor should be leading the new things that replace them.
I expected more than a GitHub clone, this is a bit of a let down.<p>There's a lot of space to innovate around collaboration and version control in the age of agentic workflows.
Don't worry! We're releasing this beta to show off the tech and wanted to start somewhere people were familiar with. We are releasing a handful of differentiators over the coming weeks :)
Totally agree. I wonder if git itself needs to be looked at, its objects and history are likely not as important as the context/instructions used to make code changes these days imho
This is just a beta. And it will iterate rapidly. Not sure how something can let you down so easily at first contact.
If AI is involved it's a big "no, thanks" from me. Simply takes the problem and moves it down the street.
Is this a rebranding of the Google Cloud Storage bucket Elon was uploading all our repos to? ;)
<a href="https://sourcehut.org/" rel="nofollow">https://sourcehut.org/</a><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/</a>
kinda crazy how Microsoft just destroyed the Github goodwill.<p>also crazy how the noisemakers about rails scaling for GitHub have gone quite all of a sudden i.e Github being on the main rails branch.<p>anyways the future is decentralized - a developer from say Russia/ Ukraine (Crimea), Iran etc - wouldn't be able to access GitHub but surely they can access decentralized repos without the permission of not being from a forbidden country as if they're at fault for their country's ills.
I was waiting for an AI company to do this. The opportunity to disrupt Github is very apparent right now.
I believe Entire.io is also trying to build a Github replacement. (Not affiliated, but I use the Entire.io CLI and I find it useful.)
Although since vibe coding is Github's Achilles heel openai might not be quite the right company to exploit that.
What a timing!<p>I wonder if they were waiting for a major githut incident :D
I wonder how Gitlab slipped this obvious AI market opportunity, they had very good position in code self hosting used by so many enterprises.<p>just add repo-level agents, org-level agents and done. they could have got 50B valuation by now
GitLab already has AI agents and agentic workflows. See their "Duo Agent Platform" <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo-agent-platform/" rel="nofollow">https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo-agent-platform/</a>
Gitlab SaaS released features at a slow cadence as end user. Great big ball of mud prob from a dev pov. As an end user it worked but never saw new features released
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?<p>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.<p>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.
I really hope this would be a worthy opponent to Github. Microsoft needs a good competition to light a fire under their ass to pay more attention to Github.
This is actually pretty good! It is the perfect containment chamber
upvote for WAL + object storage (a very powerful combination I am finally seeing more adoption of) and a lot of interesting historical details.<p>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 committed to git as files. And docker if I need isolation for CI/CD.<p>The most interesting alternative to me is atomic.dev (check their very informative blog posts) but I'll be keeping an eye on all of them.
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.<p><a href="https://s-1.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow">https://s-1.vercel.app/</a>
> Deep integrations with Cursor<p>No thanks. I want GitHub alternative, not Cursor with source control attached.
The main thing that makes GitHub the default is that almost every other service considers it the default. Launching a better product won't change that.
is there a way to browse a repository on origin without a cursor account? are all repos private? how is this a github alternative if so?
Currently Origin repositories are private to members of a Cursor team. Over time we plan to expand access, but wanted to start with a limited beta of the underlying git tech.
just like twitter, can't do shit without an account, lame and I won't even look at this product, cya.
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?
Due to the recent Github outages, I've slowly started moving to Gitlab, they've been around longer and seem to have a decent track record.
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.
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It is not a GH alternative, unless it is available for everyone with unlimited private and public repos. :)
Will they train on all the code hosted there? :)
ahh so thats the game plan: train codebases even if they are not written in or by by Cursor agents.
Today, SpaceX launches Origin. Tomorrow, as people complain about bugs and missing features "We're not a software company, we plan to build a solar forge around Jupiter and just generate all the possible source codes in the universe, so we're no longer focusing on Origin because it's an outdated concept."
How will you ever make up for the network effect that GitHub has?
They couldn't even pay me to use that product.
Git can be hosted over ssh or filesystem. I moved to self hosting git. Now it’s always up, go figure!
Does it support jujutsu natively?
Musk is one of the last people I'd trust to centralise all my code with.
I would only host worthless stuff there
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.
First attempt, they stole the code from customers. Now they will try to ask people to voluntarily give them code.<p>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.<p>The main limitation right now is that to share the code with anyone outside your Cursor organization, you need to sync it with GitHub.
Has GitHub made it harder for them to scrape to train on?
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
Vibe coders rejoice! Vibe coding is even easier now =)<p>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.
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.
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.
A Musk controlled company to look at my private repos?<p>Let me thing about it.<p>No.
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.
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.
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.<p>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.<p>Sad.
No free tier, surprised..
GitHub sync = defeat?
If by now you're willing to make EM the guardian of your code, nothing I can say would dissuade you.
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:<p>> Access blocked, please contact support.<p>No link to contact support, on help page no way to contact the actual support. Classic Musk tech.
Not sharing my private git repos with Elon Musk owned company.
I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!
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 would <i>never</i> 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.
Never going to sign up based on the association to Elon Musk.
now that software is easy to make and github has problems, how many "git as a service" offerings will there be?<p>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.
Man, I was disappointed - hoped this used something like darcs under the hood
How about an original and distinguishable name?<p>Then again, what did I expect from a company named cursor.
Why not evaluate them on the merits? Is the name really the thing that’s important here?<p>“GitHub has so many outages, but dammit, that other one has a terrible name, it’s practically unusable”.<p>And origin is a pretty great name to give a git hosting platform. And do you think GitHub, Gitlab are original?
This is a great name! It ties back to git nicely (git pull origin/main), and sounds human.<p>Cursor was also a great name given that it evolved into an advanced AI assisted auto complete. I think their team does a solid job with naming.
and to think we let phabricator wither on the vine...
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
How do you think does Microsoft start to do some thing better? At least cut slop form windows or put more effort in gh?
Is it just me or is this thing just a poor man's version of GitHub?
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.
Host your code with Elon Musk, what could go wrong
Ah, another post about Cursor.<p>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.
if its another place that offers free computer through their version of GitHub Actions I;d call it a win.
thanks I hate it
Kind of confusing people won't use this because they don't trust Musk, but has any other major platform even tried to open source their algorithms the way he has with X?<p>I get hating his politics, and his predictions are often behind schedule, but he certainly says what he thinks and isn't in some shady user data markting business like zuckerberg.<p>Anyone who trusts Altman over Musk is... I don't know. Give me the autist over the sociopath when it comes to handling my data.
Let's see how strong GitHub's network effect really is.<p>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.<p>We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331922">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331922</a>
> <i>We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub.</i><p>I don't want either tbh. There's plenty of open source alternatives. If there's anyone I trust less than Microsoft, it's Elon Musk.
We are more likely to find out the anti-network effect of Elon<p>There are many people who will not touch this and look down upon those that do. Ethics and morals still seem to have some weight
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Does this have stacked PRs? Cursor acquired Graphite a while back and stacked PRs were a killer feature.
I don't know, my gut says that this is going to end in a bad way. I signed up, I think but wasn't sure if I needed to buy Cursor, or Origin came with a subscription, so confused.<p>For now Arc is staying in Github: <a href="https://github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Basekick-Labs/arc</a>
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