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Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

89 pointsby KolmogorovComptoday at 12:07 PM21 commentsview on HN

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josh-sematictoday at 12:41 PM

Love to see it. Unlike tangled.org this is local-first and has a solid story around private repos. I’m bullish on distributed forges in general, but I’m all for experimentation in figuring out exactly what that looks like.

h1watttoday at 1:35 PM

Radicle is really underrated, especially when working with agents. I find it a joy to use for my agentic workflows.

If there's purely an agentic forge one day, it's likely going to be a distributed one, with cryptographic identities and signed artifacts by default.

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vayliantoday at 12:49 PM

I noticed that they moved to a different domain last month: https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move

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bfrogtoday at 2:23 PM

radicle is awesome and Just Works from what I've tried of it

minrawstoday at 12:40 PM

The more I have been using git and building my own tooling and services around it for usage, I have figured out that something like radicle feels like the right/better solution, definitely better than what github is atm.

There are rough edges and the seeding thing is a bit mehhh. And honestly there are a bunch of things I would do differently but I like the spirit of things.

Not sure where the authors of the project stand, but it's fun to see them make progress.

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esafaktoday at 1:32 PM

How well does it hold up under load? What are the CI and PR stories?

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einpoklumtoday at 1:19 PM

I like this idea a lot! I need to find people to try it with, though, which is not so easy with GH being so popular :-(

Some nitpicks:

* What is with the forced serif font on the website?

* Does this support other version control systems? Like mercurial, SVN, pijul, etc.?

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