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730 mentions on Hacker News by 573 people: 130 stories, 600 comments · first 2015-11-18 · latest 2026-10-30

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  1. …them. Somehow their built-in JavaScript debugging extension can use these APIs without any issues. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vscode-dts... And you can hardly find any public information about these APIs. Well,…
    comment by rty32 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?
  2. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
    comment by elpocko · 2024-10-13 · in Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?
  3. …centers (e.g., access to the Visual Studio Marketplace). Summarized from the following article: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between... If your whole business depends on leeching off of someone else’s servers, you…
    comment by daft_pink · 2024-10-08 · in Automattic turns to weaponizing responsible disclosure against WP Engine
  4. Here’s the commit that tweet dunks on: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/78c1777cd12559745... It came from the upstream VSCode repo, and merely removed the words “all rights reserved” which do not appear in the “official” MIT…
    comment by paulgb · 2024-10-04 · in Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
  5. …original code isn't Apache open-source, it's MIT[0] and still requires copyright attribution. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
    comment by HyprMusic · 2024-10-01 · in YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup
  6. …a vehicle to encourage people to use proprietary VsCode instead of open forks like VsCodium. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/60989
    comment by poincaredisk · 2024-09-30 · in Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
  7. …out of the box [2]). [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arcanis.... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75559
    comment by WorldMaker · 2024-09-17 · in Plain Text Accounting (PTA)
  8. …italic !important; color: #757575 !important; } Which looks like the last picture in this comment: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/36512#issuecommen... Just be prepared to experiment a lot, VSCode's (Electron's?) font handling…
    comment by bloopernova · 2024-09-10 · in What you can get out of a high-quality font
  9. …telemetry removed [2][3]. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/license [2] https://vscodium.com/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
    comment by hn_acker · 2024-08-21 · in Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
  10. …There is a github issue with a long discussion, and none of the tips have seemed to help. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/65142
    comment by fellerts · 2024-08-01 · in Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
  11. …through the interfaces there, it definitely seems to have hints for viewport virtualization. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/2c46cf10d6773e690cb... Apart from that, WebWorkers seem to be used heavily to move the language server…
    comment by moritzwarhier · 2024-07-28 · in An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
  12. Seems to be fixed - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/219893
    comment by iamflimflam1 · 2024-07-11 · in VSCode won't start on several Mac OS versions, broken over a week
  13. but vscode is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and there are third-party builds from the community that disable things like telemetry: https://vscodium.com/
    comment by whalesalad · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  14. …access and there's no way to prevent it. It's been an open issue since 2018 and not on the roadmap. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116
    comment by jazzyjackson · 2024-07-08 · in Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
  15. …are workarounds, but many of them are less good than just manually ignoring the modified file. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/15909
    comment by 0cf8612b2e1e · 2024-07-02 · in A better merge workflow with Jujutsu
  16. What are you talking about? This is well documented. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/30065 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/48810 https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/1609…
    comment by Nuzzerino · 2024-06-24 · in LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground
  17. …end user _i_ would put #2 way above #1 in the lack-of-responsibility department. for example, see: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 for some more information, it is definitely not an unknown attack vector.
    comment by signa11 · 2024-06-14 · in We Hacked Multi-Billion Dollar Companies Using a Fake VSCode Extension
  18. …not free, I didn't keep track as I collected the URLs.) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed https://github.com/microsoft/vscode https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch…
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-05-29 · in Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
  19. Or https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by stop50 · 2024-05-27 · in Ask HN: Elixir LSP doesn't work on VSCode and Neovim. Any solutions?
  20. …even probably their best product VS Code only got reasonable multiple screens support last year: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecommen... And then, on the other end of the spectrum, you have Teams and ecosystem…
    comment by bragh · 2024-04-30 · in Asynchronous Programming in C#
  21. …ran into this 2016 bug which was a showstopper for me. Fixed it myself, grand total 4 line diff. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10643
    comment by omni · 2024-04-21 · in I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
  22. …EVERY SINGLE TIME (about 1480ms). I put in a bug report for this years ago but it got ignored :( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/137066 Vscode has gotten slower over time. It's true you can't get nanosecond performance out of…
    comment by macromaniac · 2024-04-21 · in I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
  23. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/forks 27,000 people seem to have done so.
    comment by SpecialistK · 2024-04-19 · in Single vendor is the new proprietary
  24. …FWIW, here's the link to troubleshooting vs code performance issues from the project's GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues
    comment by watersb · 2024-04-04 · in Ask HN: Why does VSCode fully drain MacBook Pro (M2) battery in 2hrs?
  25. …about winget is being able to update and manage software that wasn't installed with it too. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/123205#issuecomme... [2]: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/3691#issuecom...
    comment by c-hendricks · 2024-03-25 · in Mutt on Windows Without WSL
  26. …against React or any framework "because abstraction bad", you will end up with them anyways, enjoy: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/release/1.87/src/vs... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/release/1.87/src/vs...…
    comment by omeid2 · 2024-03-07 · in Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
  27. …Also, blink was removed before the CSS version was efficiently optimized on the browser's side: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by littlestymaar · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control
  28. …give a list of inexcusable grievances that are maintained to this day. My favorite would be this: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40233 . From the outside, would only take a handful of lines to read two configuration files…
    comment by fbdab103 · 2024-02-22 · in A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
  29. …this is not shared, but you can always build your own open source version of VS Code by cloning it. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18083
    comment by itishappy · 2024-02-18 · in Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms
  30. …awful bug (and it might still tbh, I haven't had it confirmed that it's fully fixed yet). https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/96104 If you staged selected ranges it could change the line endings of the whole file from CRLF to LF.…
    comment by DavidVoid · 2024-02-16 · in How to commit part of file in Git
  31. …but no definitive support path for those who are unable to upgrade at this time. GitHub thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/203375
    comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2024-02-02 · in VSCode is no longer compatible with Ubuntu 18.04, here's what you can do
  32. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/203375
    comment by xgdgsc · 2024-02-01 · in VSCode update cause "Waiting for server log "
  33. …come close to intelliJ performance. [0] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#windows [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161622#issuecomme...
    comment by alpaca128 · 2024-01-11 · in Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
  34. …the status bar and panel are hidden. Compiles that took 20s would take 4s with those panels hidden. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/160118
    comment by tmpfile · 2023-12-29 · in Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
  35. …the near future for a performance boost, instead of sticking to the current superposition approach: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/175938
    comment by aragonite · 2023-12-27 · in CSS Is Fun Again
  36. visual studio is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode i remember using their monaco editor as well ( https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor ), a really powerful editor & the very same used by VS Code (i think you can even…
    comment by fullstackchris · 2023-12-09 · in Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
  37. …that will make the thing stutter. There's no way to have efficient 60fps animations in chromium. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/138396 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 If anyone does know a fix, you could save…
    comment by dumbo-octopus · 2023-12-01 · in Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times
  38. …made any progress nor can I tell that there is a plan to work on this at all in the near future: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/108264
    comment by ofek · 2023-11-19 · in Vertical Tabs in Visual Studio Code
  39. …where the text is not rendered. That is why it relies on the text grid for all layout and movement. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/142738#issuecomme...
    comment by matj1 · 2023-11-14 · in Monaspace
  40. …to Intellij products, I would definitely rank it as one of the worst C++ IDEs available. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16110
    comment by Naac · 2023-11-09 · in Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine
  41. …or formal definition? People have suggested[1] using JSON5[2] instead for that reason [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688 [2] https://spec.json5.org/
    comment by tubthumper8 · 2023-11-05 · in Building a high performance JSON parser
  42. Floating windows feature has the most thumbs up (2.89k) in the entire VS Code history - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort... Official release announcement - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-ed…
    comment by piotrkarczmarz · 2023-11-03 · in VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever
  43. Floating windows feature has the most thumbs up (2.89k) in the entire VS Code history - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort... Official release announcement - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-ed…
    comment by piotrkarczmarz · 2023-11-02 · in After 7 years, VS Code finally implements preview support for floating windows
  44. Also: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161333
    comment by justinclift · 2023-10-27 · in Microsoft: Require user consent before sending any telemetry
  45. …OS thing, but apparently it's an app thing. And VS Code "withdrew" support for configuring borders: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/160159
    comment by Tempest1981 · 2023-10-13 · in Scrollbars are becoming a problem
  46. …discussion[0] on the VS Code repo to use JSON5 format instead of JSONC for the settings file. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688
    comment by dheerajvs · 2023-09-29 · in That's a Lot of YAML
  47. Actually no, it’s something called jsonc. It’s without a spec https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688 https://github.com/microsoft/node-jsonc-parser
    comment by yankput · 2023-09-21 · in XML is better than YAML – Hear me out
  48. …no different to emacs [0] or vscode [1] [0] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2940 [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/30874
    comment by maccard · 2023-09-14 · in RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE
  49. - Microsoft/vscode#4490: "Macro recording" (2016-) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490 It looks like there are a number of vscode extensions for recording macros: - https://www.google.com/search?q=vscode+macro+recorder -…
    comment by westurner · 2023-09-05 · in Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
  50. Screenshot of the UI: “Tweet us your feedback” https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822...
    comment by aendruk · 2023-09-04 · in VSCode Removes Twitter Integration