Turns out that the name's been re-used by some sort of slop code review system. Smells like a feature rather than a product, so I guess they were lucky to be acquired while the market's still frothy.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2025-12-19T16:33:51.000Z","created_at_i":1766162031,"id":46327677,"options":[],"parent_id":46327325,"points":null,"story_id":46327325,"text":"Heh, I read Graphite as the monitoring tool[1] and was very confused for a second what they want with that old thing.
1: https://graphiteapp.org/","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"ChrisArchitect","children":[],"created_at":"2025-12-19T16:34:13.000Z","created_at_i":1766162053,"id":46327684,"options":[],"parent_id":46327325,"points":null,"story_id":46327325,"text":"Maybe merge with the Cursor submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206
Graphiters in there doing Q&A also","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"AlexB138","children":[],"created_at":"2025-12-19T18:11:57.000Z","created_at_i":1766167917,"id":46328948,"options":[],"parent_id":46327325,"points":null,"story_id":46327325,"text":"I made this comment on the Cursor announcement post:
I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that Cursor bought to try to stay in the game.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"fosterfriends","children":[{"author":"tyre","children":[],"created_at":"2025-12-19T20:05:03.000Z","created_at_i":1766174703,"id":46330235,"options":[],"parent_id":46329921,"points":null,"story_id":46327325,"text":"Congratulations, Greg!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2025-12-19T19:36:21.000Z","created_at_i":1766172981,"id":46329921,"options":[],"parent_id":46327325,"points":null,"story_id":46327325,"text":"(Re-sharing some thoughts I posted on other HN thread)
Hi all! Graphite cofounder Greg here. I\u2019ve been asked a few times so far why we decided to join.
Personally, I work on Graphite for two reasons. 1) I love working with kind, smart, intense teammates. I want to be surrounded by folks who I look up to and who energize me. 2) I want to build bleeding-edge dev tools that move the whole industry forward. I have so much respect for all y\u2019all across the world, and nothing makes me happier than getting to create better tooling for y\u2019all to engineer with. Graphite is very much the combination of these two passions: human collaboration and dev tools.
Joining Cursor accelerates both these goals. I get to work with the same team I love, a new bunch of wonderful people, and get to keep recruiting as fast as possible. I also get to keep shipping amazing code collaboration tooling to the industry - but now with more resourcing and expertise. We get to be more ambitious with our visions and timelines, and pull the future forward.
I wouldn\u2019t do this if I didn\u2019t think the Cursor team weren\u2019t standup people with high character and kindness. I wouldn\u2019t do this if I thought it meant compromising our vision of building a better generation of code collaboration tooling. I wouldn\u2019t do it if I thought it wouldn\u2019t be insanely fun and exciting. But it seems to be all those things, so we\u2019re plunging forward with excitement and open hearts!","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2025-12-19T16:07:42.000Z","created_at_i":1766160462,"id":46327325,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":167,"story_id":46327325,"text":null,"title":"Cursor Acquires Graphite","type":"story","url":"https://graphite.com/blog/graphite-joins-cursor"}