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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. …complaint about it here! The context window is stuck at 128k for all models (except maybe Codex): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/264153 and https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/5993 This absolutely sucks, especially…
    comment by eulers_secret · 2026-02-02 · in Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
  2. …care about security, it's good for VSCode performance. I'll save that story for another day.) [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 [1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...
    comment by g947o · 2026-02-02 · in MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
  3. …similar to this one I requested for Deno/TS ... no longer need the .ts extension for my local use. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/287819
    comment by tracker1 · 2026-01-29 · in Make.ts
  4. We're planning on switching the default in 1.109 with https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/287073 My main hesitation here was that really it's just a false sense of security though. Tasks is just one of the things this enables, and…
    comment by Tyriar · 2026-01-23 · in Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  5. ▲ 1
    VS Code: Broken rendering on macOS after app resumed from idle state
    story by tosh · 2026-01-23 · 0 comments
  6. …codebase to only use them when the workspace is trusted. `allowAutomaticTasks` is one such setting: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/f7730c409e14af94d75... So a malicious repo can easily override it... if you say you trust it.
    comment by Tyriar · 2026-01-22 · in Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  7. this is the issue that tracks that effort https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/221145
    comment by artur-gawlik · 2026-01-06 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed
  8. …in their own branded features This part isn't true, MS and VSCodium both build their releases upon https://github.com/microsoft/vscode , but MS does not build VSCodium at all.
    comment by bityard · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed
  9. …find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time to time a new AI related feature slips in…
    comment by bpasero · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed
  10. …flag = 1 << 10 return parser_fn(code, filename, "exec", flags=flag, dont_inherit=True, optimize=0) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/283430
    comment by Porygon · 2025-12-30 · in Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands
  11. …in mind extensions may or may not respect that. Here's that specific event if you're interested: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/b0e9dce905d12646801...
    comment by Tyriar · 2025-12-25 · in Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
  12. …where it doesn't work well, that's one of the key pieces of feedback we got and is tracked in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/282578 For that WSL one specifically we'll get it fixed in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/2…
    comment by Tyriar · 2025-12-25 · in Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
  13. Hi from the VS Code team - I recently went into detail about why we did this in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/282268#issuecomme... . We believe it'll be beneficial overall and go a long way in lowering the bar to make the…
    comment by Tyriar · 2025-12-25 · in Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
  14. …sadly their issue report page is a bit of a cesspool - will really make you lose faith in humanity. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues I think maybe vibe coders got to it and don’t realize that there are certain requirements to…
    comment by n8cpdx · 2025-12-25 · in Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
  15. …long term proprietary fork won? VSCode is a proprietary fork of code-oss, the product located at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode . It might not be an example that you're looking for though.
    comment by tristan957 · 2025-12-03 · in Ghostty is now non-profit
  16. …curl command (cmd)" did (does?) this. There is bunch of VS Code bug is also related to this (e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/248435 , still not fixed) It's also funny because VS Code is a Microsoft product.
    comment by thrdbndndn · 2025-12-01 · in Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
  17. …is to just put .diff or .patch at the end of its URL. I use this all the time! Random PR example, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/280106 has a diff at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/280106.diff Another thing that…
    comment by lelandfe · 2025-11-30 · in Migrating Dillo from GitHub
  18. …knew how it was made (LLMs or not). As another suspicious data point see this issue by the author: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/272725 Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952581 found some concrete issues
    comment by rudedogg · 2025-11-17 · in Open-source Zig book
  19. …prior to publishing this repo, and that's an issue where they mention "ai has made me too lazy": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/272725
    comment by CathalMullan · 2025-11-16 · in Open-source Zig book
  20. …brought up to date again. Moral of the story: Emacs is life. I'm sorry I ever doubted it. <3 [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/204942
    comment by imiric · 2025-11-16 · in IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
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    Markdown files not openable because of GitHub Copilot (VSCode)
    story by pjmlp · 2025-11-16 · 1 comment
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    Markdown files are not openable because of GitHub Copilot
    story by lr0 · 2025-11-15 · 1 comment
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    Show HN: Fixing a VSCode performance issue present since the first commit
    story by anticensor · 2025-11-04 · 0 comments
  24. …frameworks ago. Screenshot in article: > 1.99.3 Actually, 1.99.3 was released < 7 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.99.3
    comment by jollyllama · 2025-10-29 · in So Cursor 2.0 is still based on VSCode from 8 months ago
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    Recursive functions cause infinite tree in VS Code’s call hierarchy view
    story by azhenley · 2025-10-29 · 0 comments
  26. It’s been around since the root commit in 2015: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/8f35cc4768393b25468...
    comment by minitech · 2025-10-27 · in Severe performance penalty found in VSCode rendering loop
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    Severe performance penalty found in VSCode rendering loop
    story by anticensor · 2025-10-27 · 45 comments
  28. ▲ 1
    Ask HN: Why do editors still struggle with long lines?
    story by jiehong · 2025-10-22 · 0 comments
  29. …you typed to appear. The latest benchmark I could find is 2022 and it's nowhere as bad as you claim https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161622#issuecomme...
    comment by TiredOfLife · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows
  30. …(other than browsers) start faster than I can reasonably react. Typing has noticeable lag, see: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 And this is on a workstation computer, I don't want to imagine how terrible the experience is…
    comment by ben-schaaf · 2025-10-13 · in Fastmail desktop app
  31. ▲ 1
    MCP servers on VSCode can't be hidden
    story by elashri · 2025-10-10 · 0 comments
  32. ▲ 5
    Microsoft Accidentally removes extensions from VSCode Marketplace
    story by Alupis · 2025-10-05 · 1 comment
  33. ▲ 2
    VSCode Extensions showing as "No longer available"
    story by Alupis · 2025-10-04 · 0 comments
  34. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/257073 drop a +1 for the cause, I guess.
    comment by blinkbat · 2025-09-04 · in Ask HN: VSCode AI Autocomplete Woes
  35. Just look at open issues, sorted by most thumbs up: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20st... One that I am interested in is tree sitter syntax highlighting support: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140…
    comment by rs186 · 2025-08-12 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
  36. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
    comment by kube-system · 2025-08-11 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
  37. They should add "custom endpoint" support instead [0]. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/249605
    comment by ggerganov · 2025-07-30 · in Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
  38. …This is REH entry (the binary installed on the remote machine) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/...
    comment by eddythompson80 · 2025-07-27 · in Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
  39. …[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Coding-guidelin... [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/41200 Edit: found the TS style guide at https://github.com/basarat/typescript-book/blob/master/docs/... , it should
    comment by dimava · 2025-07-25 · in The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious
  40. …Microsoft refuse to implement any kind of permission management or sandboxing for extensions. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116
    comment by worble · 2025-07-15 · in Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft
  41. I'm not sure I see the problem. The number of merged PR's looks on the high side for a FOSS project. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclo...
    comment by tomnipotent · 2025-06-27 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
  42. …about this when they have such an atrocious record of handling pull requests in VS Code already: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls
    comment by BrentOzar · 2025-06-27 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
  43. …been an open feature request since 2018 [0]. I've been wanting something like this for a while. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116
    comment by meander_water · 2025-06-25 · in Show HN: VSCan - Detect Malicious VSCode Extensions
  44. …about it when I started. [0] https://github.com/bperel/socket-call/blob/e0076d7887397a92a... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/24c0ff16c250f2b39ee...
    comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-06-16 · in Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions
  45. There are repos out there with over a hundred thousand issues - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20st... has 180,000+ now. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue is just over 100,000 across both open…
    comment by simonw · 2025-05-26
  46. …here for the feature on Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17455 And here on VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20889
    comment by cies · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  47. …knowing where it is? BTW if you share the same frustration with VSCode, please vote this ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/244123
    comment by ferguess_k · 2025-04-22 · in SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
  48. …like CoPilot, VSCodium even has a guide on how to add it to VSCodium/Source Built VSCode [4] 0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt 1: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode 2: https://vscodium.com/#why 3:…
    comment by 0manrho · 2025-04-20 · in I just got an ad in VS Code
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    Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Guided Tours for Pull Requests
    story by akshaysg · 2025-04-03 · 0 comments
  50. VS Code still doesn't support ESM in extensions, you have to transpile to CJS. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/130367
    comment by shpx · 2025-03-24 · in Move on to ESM-Only