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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. …To help debug this further, it would be great help if you could open an issue on Github, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/ , with more details about your OS, VS Code version and installed extensions, so we can figure out what happened.…
  2. ▲ 3
    Using VSCode as an advertising platform
    story by agoldis · 2018-10-15 · 0 comments
  3. > Stop using sha256(MAC address) for telemetry machine ID #8688 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8688
  4. …give you an example of what kinds of issues using web tech for desktop-like experience can cause: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 (Yes, I'm well aware that they fixed it. The point is that the offending code needed to be…
  5. …like with it. [1] own or own enough rights. Before any PRs are accepted, you need to sign the CLA https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Contributor-License...
  6. …pretty sure someone had forked VSCode like ungoogled-chromium but I can't find the repository. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346492
  7. …to this as my daily driver, but there's some small things, like Django Template formatting ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/46468 ) that have yet to be fixed/working.
    comment by zdware · 2018-09-06 · in Python in Visual Studio Code
  8. That... hasn't been my experience: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18549 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16858 Maybe I just care a little too much about code folding, but after origami.el in emacs and atom and vim's…
    comment by kiaulen · 2018-09-06 · in Python in Visual Studio Code
  9. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/57851#issuecommen...
    comment by castlegloom · 2018-09-04 · in Marketplace.visualstudio.com is down
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    Marketplace.visualstudio.com is down
    story by devalnor · 2018-09-04 · 2 comments
  11. There used to be at least one issue about this, and of course it has been fixed by now: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
  12. …couldn’t write my own web browser with the default homepage set to Google without permission... [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
  13. …is not up for debate. You of course don't need to share the same ethical framework as me. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
  14. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec... This is the revert of the mistakenly committed code. In this repository's readme there is a link to a thread where (presumably the author, I didn't check) says that the public…
  15. What's this file then? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
  16. …source code is MIT licensed and I think you are mistaken about whether that is in dispute or not. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-2...
  17. According to https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... > The cool thing about all of this is that you have the choice to use the Visual Studio Code branded product under our license or you can build a version of the…
  18. Related issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/34739
  19. …that would be huge, winpty (while I'm really thankful it exists) is a PITA in practice, see e.g. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/45693 .
  20. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16208 Try that (I haven’t yet) - let me know if it works out for you! I was just wanting something similar the other day and this is on my to-try list
  21. …either. The GitHub repo for VScode doesn't have any C in it; infact it doesn't have much but JS/TS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by dabber · 2018-07-19 · in Qt Creator 4.7.0 released
  22. …are using: https://stackshare.io/stacks Find some open source projects by them, and have a look: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
  23. > See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though obviously can't tell about the edited ones, but there's not a single "juicy" comment by someone from Microsoft…
    comment by detaro · 2018-06-27 · in PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab
  24. …customise the blue status bar that I think I saw true "spirit" of that company. See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though PS. I moved all my 80 Open Source…
    comment by rstn · 2018-06-27 · in PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab
  25. The telemetry usage is directly in the MIT source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/f05063d13da8c6112ed... The telemetry extension is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry And you can unpack the…
    comment by bpicolo · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  26. …to fulfill that requirement was once added to the open source version, and then quickly removed. 0: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-wiki/pull/30#issuecommen... 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commits/master/product.j...
    comment by pritambaral · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  27. …proprietary software than it does as an open-source license. If you, instead, clone the git repo at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode , you'll find that the repo is under an MIT license ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LI…
  28. It already is MIT: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/6b8ea727a918c6d646e...
    comment by notjosh · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  29. …and whatever you get from source. Apparently at the very least, the contents of product.json ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/product.json... ) defining names are different.
    comment by icegreentea2 · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  30. …& Chromium, Oracle JDK & OpenJDK, Xamarin Studio & MonoDevelop, etc. [1] Seems fair play to me. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...
    comment by kozhevnikov · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
  31. I'm not getting it, what part is not free? All the code is at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode under the MIT license and you can download a prebuild version, which is also free to use.
    comment by mschuetz · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source
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    Want free VS Code? Build it from source
    story by msl100 · 2018-06-19 · 65 comments
  33. …or VS Code [1]. Users discover this stuff by watching network traffic, not through code audits. 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
    comment by millstone · 2018-06-11 · in Alternatives to Google Products
  34. …trust," https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/ https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic...…
  35. …it has a mind. It doesn't. [0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic... [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...
    comment by daniel-levin · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github
  36. VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by Totoradio · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github
  37. …projects recently. They're the highest contributing organization on Github I believe. I mean... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
  38. …run a really tight ship and all it takes is to point it in the right direction. Just look at this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50477 It's basically their May 2017 release plan for VS Code 1.24. Fully public. My guess is that…
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    Vscode-insiders can't display chinese
    story by valera_rozuvan · 2018-05-29 · 0 comments
  40. …metadata every time you save a file. If you want to see this fixed, please post about the issue in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49021 .
  41. …tps://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/04/25/bing-settings... ), and there's a setting to disable it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
  42. Related https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49159 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
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    VSCode opens URL without user's permission
    story by msoad · 2018-05-04 · 1 comment
  44. …figure out if any extension is consuming extensive CPU. This was added quite recently [2]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/1638acdd62d94bc4d99... [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_19#_running-extensi...
    comment by alexdima · 2018-04-27 · in Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE
  45. …that last cursor at the beginning of the line - and the other ones at the indentation level (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14919#issuecommen... ) (Disclaimer: Author of the mentioned plugin, so I am heavily biased against…
    comment by kwood · 2018-04-23 · in VS Code can do that?
  46. Maybe not for long: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/34442
    comment by lloeki · 2018-04-23 · in Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
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    The most upvoted issue on VSCode
    story by faaq · 2018-04-22 · 0 comments
  48. Check out this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/23931#issuecommen... Add this to your settings: ``` "search.location": "panel", ``` Not perfect, but it's a start.
    comment by omn1 · 2018-04-21 · in VS Code can do that?
  49. ▲ 1
    Ask HN: Do you prefer a tracker, mailing list, or chat channel for discussions?
    story by lwhsiao · 2018-04-03 · 0 comments
  50. …One of them even shows up in a version Milestone list (which Changelogs and Release Notes link to): https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/54?closed=1