Ask HN thread on GitHub alternatives draws 379 comments during the outage

Sources: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub, Ask HN addressed to GitHub employees
Summary: The thread opened at 13:59 UTC on 2026-08-17, about twenty minutes after GitHub began investigating, and reached 592 points and 379 comments in this run's highest recorded listing. A related Ask HN addressed to GitHub employees reached 103 points and 79 comments. No participant claim in either thread was independently verified, and this is discussion rather than evidence of migration.
Why it matters: One day of degradation moved a large number of practitioners to publicly evaluate code-hosting alternatives, which is the context the Cursor Origin launch landed in.