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Security Sandboxing and Update Management Proposal for VS Code Extensions

story by vednig · 2025-03-23 · 0 comments

…functionality that would be very simple if it were a native app. Sometimes resulting in bugs like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 ("VS Code uses 13% CPU when focused and idle, draining battery ... due to the blinking…

comment by int_19h · 2025-03-05 · in Why fastDOOM is fast

This is tracked in this feature request https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months.

comment by isidorn · 2025-02-26 · in Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

…concerned about. Here's where they introduced wrapping the environment output in "random" numbers: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/1336b3d3c0d4338fb... The associated issue explains that they needed to be able to ignore…

comment by jrootabega · 2025-02-21 · in Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars?

It seems like the command is from this line of the VSCode source (Cursor is a fork of VSCode): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/f8b29f8da2c9bfda029... GitHub Copilot thinks it does this to capture shell-specific environment…

comment by tsunitsuni · 2025-02-21 · in Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars?

…but hasn't been able to keep up with the spec, and I doubt they ever will at this point (Example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/165219 ). The newer specs for json-schema (not supported by VSCode) allow for a wider range of…

comment by Nuzzerino · 2025-02-14 · in Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model

…hire me for a couple months to do nothing but sit in a corner by myself untangling this mess. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/6dbde2a3ed308f88164...

comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…large projects, but why would you keep a "printTime" function in remote extension management code? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/c9e7e1b72f80b12ffc0... (Genuine question, I'm puzzled!)

comment by bloopernova · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

There's a feature request from 2018 to add a proper permission model for plugins in VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 Sadly it doesn't seem to make any progress.

comment by retsl · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…the misunderstanding. That being said, I'd love to know which severe bugs disrupt your usage. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/cli [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server

comment by joaomoreno · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…somewhere in the middle of last year, VSCode's node install stopped working with the old glibc. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/201129 Most people who hit this hard pinned their vscode to 1.85 & it took a while till this turned…

comment by gopalv · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

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Show HN: Copilot Next Edit Suggestions in VS Code

story by alexdima · 2025-02-06 · 1 comment

…extension. Should be a big button "switch to pre-release". We are tracking this issue here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/239836

comment by isidorn · 2025-02-06 · in GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

…you need for moderately complex projects if the suits dont have too many needs / influence. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/237297

comment by cloverich · 2025-01-19 · in GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

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Nearly 8 years ago, a user deletes 3 months of work and blames VSCode

story by NotAnOtter · 2025-01-16 · 2 comments

…with vscode.dev requires GitHub login? #237371" ... but it works with Marimo and JupyterLite: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/237371 Does Marimo support local file system access? jupyterlab-filesystem-access only works with…

comment by westurner · 2025-01-14 · in Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub

…which we never package nor upload to any registry. (we do it just like how VS Code does it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions ) we did not hire snyk, but we reached out to them after seeing this and they apologized.…

comment by ArVID220u · 2025-01-14 · in Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

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Support large documents in extension host

story by zb3 · 2025-01-02 · 0 comments

…with words, or a shitty ASCII art diagram. There's a very long standing VSCode issue for this. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220

comment by IshKebab · 2024-12-29 · in Racket-embed-images-in-source-text

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VSCode adds overtype mode after 9 years

story by therealunreal · 2024-11-29 · 2 comments

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Thing DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK (2017)

story by Liriel · 2024-11-25 · 4 comments

…code level. Consider for example these two PRs: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/23858 and https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/209557 . It's pretty easy to tell which one was more effort even if you don't know anything about…

comment by adchurch · 2024-11-20 · in Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity

…: 15.266 (Adds backend, frontend, and tests for a new feature) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/222315 : 8.401 (Refactors code to use a new service and adds new tests) https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/27977

comment by adchurch · 2024-11-20 · in Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity

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Thing Deleted 3 Months of Work

story by jatwork · 2024-11-20 · 4 comments

…in fact, one of my colleagues often struggled with this). Closed issue with unclear resolution: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/66288 It's one of the many, many, many nice little touches that Jetbrains offers over VScode, and I…

comment by solardev · 2024-11-19 · in Ask HN: How do you keep track of actions to perform at next pull?

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VSCode high CPU usage issue affecting macOS

story by nateb2022 · 2024-11-03 · 0 comments

For what it's worth; Visual Studio Code and VSCode are not the same. VSCode is MIT licensed: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt From vscodium.com: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the…

comment by z33k · 2024-10-31 · in SSH Remoting

? The remote server (reh) is part of the vscode repo itself https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/... there is a vscodium and codeoss builds of it too (reh builds). The extension that invokes it isn’t, but there are a…

comment by eddythompson80 · 2024-10-31 · in SSH Remoting

…correctly ssh into a container that's set up in your `.ssh` config file. Not sure if this fixed it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/194879

comment by DrBazza · 2024-10-31 · in SSH Remoting

... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode ? It's MIT licensed. Or are we here to start GPL vs MIT for the 10,000th time?

comment by Karrot_Kream · 2024-10-29 · in Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

…used with forks.) The VS Code team has kept some APIs in this "preview" mode for many many years. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/59921 is just one example, which has been requested since early 2018!

comment by __float · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

VSCode is not open source. Code-OSS is open source and is what is published at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode . VSCode is a proprietary application you download from Microsoft that is a distribution of Code-OSS with Microsoft branding…

comment by tristan957 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

…Microsoft. Code-OSS is provided fully free as in beer and freedom, and is currently what resides at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode . Why would Microsoft not want other AI agent extensions to get the same benefits, which would benefit…

comment by tristan957 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

Microsoft VSCode, as far as I know, is not purely what is published under https://github.com/microsoft/vscode .

comment by tristan957 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

…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?

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VSCode for Linux remote code execution vulnerability

story by bananaquant · 2024-10-16 · 0 comments

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

comment by elpocko · 2024-10-13 · in Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?

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Visual Studio Code for Linux Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2024-43601

story by agrmohit · 2024-10-08 · 0 comments

…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

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

…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

…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)

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CPU usage even when idle (due to cursor rendering)

story by harporoeder · 2024-09-27 · 0 comments

…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)

…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

…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

…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

…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

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

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VSCode won't start on several Mac OS versions, broken over a week

story by stevebmark · 2024-07-11 · 3 comments