Hacker News: theorchid

New comment by theorchid in "Show HN: Ungate – use Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions in Cursor without tokens"

theorchid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:49:12 +0000

Ungate is a Cursor extension that lets Cursor use provider subscriptions through a local proxy and a public tunnel, instead of direct API billing. Right now it supports Claude and GPT via OAuth, and MiniMax via API key.

The main reason this exists is that Cursor can talk to a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, but its backend cannot reach localhost, so the extension manages the proxy + tunnel + provider auth flow for you.

Known limitation: this only works reliably with custom model IDs configured through the Ungate dashboard. Cursor’s built-in model IDs can bypass the custom base URL.

Show HN: Ungate – use Claude and GPT subscriptions in Cursor without API costs

theorchid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:23:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orchidfiles/ungate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878522

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Netflix Was Held Together with Duct Tape

theorchid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:24:19 +0000

Article URL: https://marcrandolph.substack.com/p/netflix-was-held-together-with-duct

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876859

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight

theorchid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:19:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876078

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Anthropic: Long-running Claude for scientific computing

theorchid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:41:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/long-running-Claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875048

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

theorchid — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661

Points: 339

# Comments: 93

I'm a very slow thinker (2016)

theorchid — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:45:35 +0000

Article URL: https://sive.rs/slow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864408

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

A record-setting 31.4 Tbps attack caps a year of DDoS assaults

theorchid — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:09:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-2025-q4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863911

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Advanced DNS Protection: mitigating sophisticated DNS DDoS attacks

theorchid — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:38:21 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/advanced-dns-protection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863449

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to maintain flow and keep your momentum, How to Live, time and schedules

theorchid — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:01:48 +0000

Article URL: https://sive.rs/2020-03-flow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848191

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Bitter Lesson versus the Garbage Can

theorchid — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:31:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-bitter-lesson-versus-the-garbage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846927

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Generate coherent personas from pop culture universes

theorchid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/loredata

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799625

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Use Claude, ChatGPT, or MiniMax Subscriptions in Cursor

theorchid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://open-vsx.org/extension/orchidfiles/ungate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782711

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Popular Psychology Myths You Probably Still Believe

theorchid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nateliason.com/blog/psychology-myths

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752354

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

We change when others are watching

theorchid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:18:39 +0000

Article URL: https://nesslabs.com/audience-effect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748279

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Level 3 Thinking: A Unified Theory of Self-Improvement

theorchid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:41:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nateliason.com/blog/level-3-thinking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746566

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An Interview with Asana Founder Dustin Moskovitz about AI, SaaS, and Safety

theorchid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:05:47 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-asana-founder-dustin-moskovitz-about-ai-saas-and-safety/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746311

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by theorchid in "How to use a Claude Subscription in Cursor without paying for API tokens"

theorchid — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:53:57 +0000

I have a Max subscription account. I've been using this service for three months and haven't been banned yet. But that doesn’t mean I'll never be banned. The service proxies requests so that they appear to come from Claude Code.

Marc Andreessen on why "this time is different" in AI

theorchid — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:28:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.latent.space/p/pmarca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651706

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Database triggers to clean text inputs

theorchid — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://sive.rs/clean1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651565

Points: 4

# Comments: 0