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Supermaven: Free AI Code Completion
Company blog · supermaven.com/blogaiprogramming
Supermaven: Free AI Code Completion is the company blog at supermaven.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2024, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Fastest Copilot”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the site for Supermaven, an AI code completion tool. Comments praise it as a Copilot alternative and discuss its pricing, privacy policy and Cursor acquisition, not any writing on the blog.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The fastest copilot. Supermaven uses a 1 million token context window to provide the highest quality code completions.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-08
- The Fastest Copilot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-24
- /pricing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-22
- Supermaven Joins Cursor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-12
- Sunsetting Supermaven2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-23
What Hacker News says?
All the SOTA LLM solutions like this have nearly the same problem. Sure the context window is huge, but there is no guarantee the model understands what 100K tokens of code is trying to accomplish within the context of the full codebase, or even into the real world, within the context of the business. They are just not good enough yet to use in real projects. Try it, start a greenfield project with "just cursor" lik…
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on “How I write code using Cursor”Submitted Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context as a story · 163 points
HN discussionHave you tried supermaven? ( https://supermaven.com ). I find it much better than copilot. Using it daily.
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on “Codestral Mamba”Submitted Sunsetting Supermaven as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSupermaven[1] has addons for vscode as well for jetbrains (and neovim). And it is so good that I quickly decided for their paid plan [1] https://supermaven.com/
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on “Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative”Submitted Supermaven Joins Cursor as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> Cursor acquires Supermaven. > "Will the plugin remain up? Yes!" > https://supermaven.com/blog/sunsetting-supermaven
Comment linking /blog/sunsetting-supermaven
on “Graphite is joining Cursor”Submitted Introducing Supermaven 1.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionVendoring the binary guarantees that I control what is running. It isn't installed, just run locally from the lib. I'll quote the OP issue on GH: > Now I found that it downloads (here) even some proprietary binary from https://supermaven.com , i.e. unaudited and unauditable code, without any verification (except TLS)! This opens Zed up to Man In The Middle attacks and Supply Chain attacks. And now that Zed has indic…
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on “Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent”Submitted Supermaven Joins Cursor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe should update the site to be clearer about this. There is a 7-day data retention limit listed in https://supermaven.com/pricing .
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on “Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context”Submitted We won't be replaced by AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYour privacy policy[0] doesn't seem to mention any of this. How is the data being used? I'm not very certain about inputting my data into any tool that uploads to cloud and there's no valid privacy policy [0] https://supermaven.com/privacy-policy
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on “Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context”Submitted The Fastest Copilot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't think Supermaven is dead... Even though it is also part of Cursor, you could subscribe to the $10/month Pro plan and use it in Jetbrains IDEs like Rider. https://supermaven.com/pricing
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on “Cursor 1.7”Here's a version that keeps closer to the original text while fixing the main typos: Very happy with https://supermaven.com . Switched to it from Copilot, and it's faster and has a much better understanding of what I'm trying to do. I think it uses a git diff + some other stuff that it feeds into the context window that makes it so that when I'm working on a new feature, when i’m creating say the 3rd it understands…
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on “Ask HN: GitHub Copilot Alternatives”
