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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 https://graphite.com). Happy to
by tomasreimers 3mo ago
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 https://graphite.com).
Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!
- wahnfrieden 3mo ago[flagged]
- BryantD 3mo agoI 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. 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.
- olejorgenb 3mo agohttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-git.html?m=1 https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/grok-build-uploads-entire-...
- vorticalbox 3mo agoit seems like they took reasonable steps after. They acknowledged that it happened, fixed the bug that caused it, deleted all data that was uploaded.
- pseudosavant 3mo agoWhat 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.
- dbbk 3mo agoI mean I think the auto uploading of repos already gives you the answer. This is untrustworthy.
- sandeepkd 3mo agoUnless 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.
- vorticalbox 3mo agoThis question also applies to OpenAI, anthopic, GitHub (Microsoft) and any server you send your data too.
- pseudosavant 3mo agoNot 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. 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.
- jjcm 3mo agoWhat 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? Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem?
- dbbk 3mo agoThere seems to be basically nothing new here
- hungryhobbit 3mo agoExcept it promises not to crash regularly.
- chris_money202 3mo agoGitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.
- logicchains 3mo agoThey're really not, given they're running on Azure.
- mlnj 3mo agoIs there any data on Azure being terrible with stability? Would love to see data than anecdotal stories.
- gtirloni 3mo agoThere isn't and if there is it probably doesn't matter in GH's case. People are just speculating with zero knowledge. I'd never put my data on anything owned by Musk. Period. I'd take lower availability from GitHub or a worse alternative (feature-wise) than move Origin.
- jmknoll 3mo agoCompletely 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.
- tomasreimers 3mo agoAbsolutely - we actually built this all on Graphite tech. Have you already linked your Graphite account with Cursor? If so, there might be a surprise!
- shykes 3mo agoAre you interested in integrating with more CI platforms, including less "traditional" ones, like dagger.io? If so I would love to talk :)
- verdverm 3mo ago[flagged]
- tomasreimers 3mo agoAbsolutely! Feel free to shoot me an email at tomas at anysphere dot co.
- shykes 3mo agoGreat! I just sent you an email :)
- autonomousErwin 3mo agoWhat'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?
- tomasreimers 3mo agoToday, very little. We're intentionally releasing this as a Github alternative where we meet them toe-to-toe on functionality. 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 :)
- ad_fontes 3mo ago[flagged]
- fwip 3mo ago[flagged]
- Petersipoi 3mo agoGood god. There is that hacker spirit. Who hurt you?
- fwip 3mo agoProbably the ever-increasing corporate homogenization, sanitization, and empty words that are flooding the internet (only accelerated by LLMs, of course). Which, for readers playing along at home, is kind of antithetical to the "hacker spirit."
- lopatin 3mo agolol I wanted the joke to work, but unlike the fairphone thing, the use of intentional makes sense here.
- throwawaydfasjf 3mo agoWhy do I need to link github for this?
- treexs 3mo agoit's only if you want to sync your repos from github
- christophbusse 3mo agoare 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 overhead with multiple agents and devices that could be better))
- icrbow 3mo agoPlease make it Fediverse/Forgejo/etc compatible. It is 2026 and I'm so tired of silos.
- pavlov 3mo ago[flagged]
- misiti3780 3mo agoas a very happy tesla customer, i dont know what this guy/girl is talking about!
- exe34 3mo ago[flagged]
- misiti3780 3mo agospend less time online and maybe read some history
- exe34 3mo ago[flagged]
- AmericanOP 3mo ago[flagged]
- victorbjorklund 3mo agoDo 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?
- maxlin 3mo agoI trust Elon eons more than any psycho billionaire. Positive motivation for tech and the future makes all the difference.
- victorbjorklund 3mo agoQuestion was only if you trust that Elon would never steal data. Not wether other pshcyos like Trump is less trustworthy or not.
- maxlin 3mo agoWith that argument, 50% of IT sector businesses "steal data", especially before GDPR. When it comes to Grok, it was a debug feature forgotten on, so it wasn't even on purpose. Have _some_ clarity.
- mtaufen 3mo agoThere were some cool ideas in https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics. Should we expect Origin to be a foundation for working with agent swarms?
- jjmarr 3mo agoAre you hiring?
- jLaForest 3mo ago[flagged]
- throw1234567891 3mo agoMany, many millions of reasons.
- DonHopkins 3mo ago[dead]
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- ronandi 3mo ago[flagged]
- guhcampos 3mo agoIt'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. 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.
- simondotau 3mo agoWas there a legitimately interesting question that he failed to answer? I don't see any.
- make_it_sure 3mo ago[flagged]
- ActionHank 3mo agoAnd you cannot English
- qwerpy 3mo agoHe’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.
- throw10920 3mo agoI'm going through and flagging the guideline-breaking comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348639) - I'd encourage you to do that, too, to help preserve the quality of HN.
- sunaookami 3mo agoThanks, 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.
- arjie 3mo agoWould 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.
- mh- 3mo agoThis is really interesting to me as someone who has always cared more about performance/responsiveness than most people (and the market). I'm sure folks would be interested to hear about what types of SaaS you've replaced for perf reasons, especially if you'd be willing to go back to a paid SaaS offering that was very responsive with agent-scale rate limits.
- arjie 3mo ago* git hosting * CI/CD * KB system * Task management Of course I have the personal software etc. but this is work stuff. Agents can create granular tasks and interact through my KB/task system so that they can own subsystems (this is useful for context isolation and performance). Commercial SaaS just get overwhelmed by this. Even hobbyists usually take the Open Office approach to copying a large amount of features and then don’t deliver performance improvements. If I’m being honest, I would gladly switch to a full SaaS solution except all of them get rate-limited on things a single 5950x can handle. It’s less a money issue (I pay for Slack etc.) and more that their use-case appears to be people who work slowly but my use-case is machines which work frequently. I fully expect Mitchell Hashimoto will deliver some kind of high performance software factory machine and I will gladly simply pay for that.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 3mo ago[flagged]
- gtirloni 3mo agoYou haven't answered much but I must recognize posting this was brave.
- mplewis 3mo ago[flagged]
- sajithdilshan 3mo agoPlease make it a worthy competitor for Github in terms of features, stability, scalability and availability and wishing your team all the best.
- catlover76 3mo ago[dead]
- ilc 3mo agoA quick question: Where can I read your TOS, and other legal documents? Knowing things like: Will my code end up in Grok? What ownership do I have of my content, etc... matter.
- hnbad 3mo ago[flagged]
- its_still_me0x0 3mo ago[flagged]
- still_tangdang_ 3mo ago[flagged]
- gverrilla 3mo ago[flagged]
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- hackmack10 3mo agoI want nothing to do with Cursor or Elon Musk, so no thank you, no questions here.
- _kidlike 3mo agowhat does it mean that Origin was built for the era that code moves faster than infrastructure can handle? Is it just clickbait, or there's something fundamentally different about Origin?
- johnAthan_ 3mo agothis deserves more attention
- neuronexmachina 3mo agoThere's a separate post about the technical differences: https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
- _kidlike 3mo agoThanks! ok, then it is indeed clickbait. S3 is still "infrastructure". Also this implies that nobody tried to build a more performant/efficient system for git for ~13 years? That's crazy...
- aiedwardyi 3mo ago[flagged]