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Cursor
Company blog · cursor.com/blogaiprogramming
Cursor is the company blog at cursor.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2018, 319 different Hacker News readers have linked it 445 times, most often “Cursor – The AI Code Editor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.
Most-linked posts?
- Cursor – The AI Code Editor22 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2024-06-13
- Git at Any Scale12 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2026-08-18
- Cursor CLI12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
- Composer 2.59 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2026-05-18
- CursorBench 3.18 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2026-05-24
- Cursor billed us $450 for a seat that existed for seconds8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2018-09-04
- A Git forge for the agentic era8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2026-06-16
- Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-03-23
- Why is Sonnet 5 Max priced above models that outperform it?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-06-11
- Shadow Workspace: Iterating on Code in the Background6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Fair enough, that is quite unfortunate. So I've always avoided using the Windows Store on my Windows machines, I think I managed to get WSL2 installed without using it lol. So I'm not sure on the details, but do the steps on https://www.cursor.com/how-to-install-extension bypass clicking "I agree" since they just download and drag? Because from what I can tell, the example in https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/e…
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on “Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations”Submitted Cursor 1.0 as a story · 613 points
HN discussionFirst of all, their docs link to the market place of ms: https://www.cursor.com/how-to-install-extension Which is basically an article to use an extension in a way that’s basically forbidden use. If that was not bad enough the editor also told you to install certain extensions if certain file extensions were used that were also against the tos of the extension. And basically cursor can just be using the vsix marketp…
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on “Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations”Submitted Cursor CLI as a story · 377 points
HN discussionInstall Cursor ( https://cursor.com ), go into Cursor Settings and disable everything but Claude, then open Composer (Ctrl/Cmd + I). Paste in your exact command above. I bet it’ll do something pretty close to what you’re looking for.
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on “Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku”Submitted Graphite is joining Cursor as a story · 270 points
HN discussionhttps://cursor.com/cli
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on “Google Antigravity”Submitted Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL as a story · 215 points
HN discussionMaybe the OP got confused with Cursor's $900mil raise? https://cursor.com/blog/series-c Last disclosed revenue from Cursor was $500mil. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/anysphere...
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on “OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google”Submitted Cursor 1.7 as a story · 158 points
HN discussionCursor see it coming - it's why they're moving to the web and mobile[0] The bigger issue is the advantage Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have in developing and deploying their own models. It wasn't that long ago that Cursor was reading 50 lines of code at a time to save on token costs. Anthropic just came out and yolo'd the context window because they could afford to, and it blew everything else away. Cursor could rel…
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on “OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google”Submitted The Agent SDK as a story · 143 points
HN discussionIt seems like they put a proxy in front of OpenVSX: https://cursor.com/help/customization/extensions However, statements around the internet (and in these comments) are less than definitive as to whether a) that proxy has a cache that was compromised; b) that proxy has select extensions which can be published directly to it by hand (one of which was compromised); c) other.
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Series C and scale as a story · 94 points
HN discussionThis is from the Cursor blog [1] linked in the description, but repeating it here in case it's useful to anyone: ------ Check whether you are impacted The malicious extension appends the attacker's public key, labeled svc-telemetry, to your SSH authorized keys. To check for it: On macOS, run: grep -qs svc-telemetry ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && echo "svc-telemetry key found" || echo "No key found; machine not impacted"…
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Clarifying our pricing as a story · 84 points
HN discussionApparently it is public: https://cursor.com/help/customization/extensions They use a proxy in front of OpenVSX…purportedly for better security, the irony writes itself.
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Cursor 3 as a story · 65 points
HN discussion> Cursor routes extension search and downloads through its own marketplace proxy (marketplace.cursorapi.com), not a direct passthrough to Open VSX. https://cursor.com/help/customization/extensions
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Cursor: Past, Present, and Future as a story · 61 points
HN discussion> Cursor routes extension search and downloads through its own marketplace proxy (marketplace.cursorapi.com), not a direct passthrough to Open VSX. https://cursor.com/help/customization/extensions
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Cursor Has Raised $60M as a story · 61 points
HN discussionEven more confusing is apparently Cursor Marketplace is OpenVSX + their own proxy to add extensions on top[0], so there are at least two possible cases: 1. The compromised version was present on OpenVSX itself, and Cursor Marketplace proxied to it 2. The compromised version was on Cursor's proxy, not OpenVSX itself [0] https://cursor.com/help/customization/extensions
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Cursor 2.0 as a story · 55 points
HN discussionhttps://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notic...
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Cursor 2.0 as a story · 51 points
HN discussionCursor always used OpenVSX for VSCode extensions. There is separate "Cursor Marketplace" ( https://cursor.com/marketplace ) but it installs "Cursor Plugins" which are exclusively Cursor feature not related to VSCode, and Anthropic had never released a "Cursor Plugin"
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Cursor stealthily doubled the price of Claude-3.7-Thinking in a changelog as a story · 42 points
HN discussion> Yesterday, Anthropic were compromised and Cursor extension used by tens of millions of developers for Claude access was delivering a remote access trojan via an SSH reverse backdoor That's a bit hyperbolic: someone released a version of the Claude Code VS Code extension with a backdoor on the Cursor marketplace: > a maliciously modified version of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension was made available in the Cursor…
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on “Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace”Submitted Scaling long-running autonomous coding as a story · 32 points
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