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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. …extension that adds highlights for non-ascii non-whitelisted [2] or predefined [3] characters. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/116939 [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nachocab... [3]…
    comment by myfonj · 2021-11-10 · in The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
  2. …idea. look at the top contributors for VSCode, and how many of them are employed at Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/graphs/contributors How can you possible separate vscode "winning because of javascript" and "it has…
    comment by JoelMcCracken · 2021-11-09 · in My Emacs Lisp book is finished
  3. I couldn't find an announcement from Microsoft about this, but it did happen in this commit: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/822f995357f725216...
  4. ▲ 2
    VS Code: Add an optional configurable toolbar below the menu
    story by thrower123 · 2021-11-05 · 1 comment
  5. ▲ 2
    Swipe-to-navigate has been broken in VS Code for more than five years
    story by lxgr · 2021-11-04 · 0 comments
  6. There's an upstream report at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/109176 ; it sounds like your experience will vary wildly depending on the version of electron you're using and the options it was built with.
    comment by JoshTriplett · 2021-11-03 · in Ask HN: Functioning hidpi setup on Linux, how?
  7. …revs file: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-bla... Real world example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/.git-blame-ign...
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    VSCode feature voting period: Keybinding Overloading · Issue #39888
    story by todsacerdoti · 2021-10-25 · 0 comments
  9. …doesn't implement certain features to not compete with VS. For example, support for File Nesting. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6328 For a while there wasn't really another way to run SQL projects outside of VS. Data Studio…
    comment by vyrotek · 2021-10-24 · in .NET Hot Reload Support via CLI
  10. …I'd be curious to see this get into mainline desktop VS Code though (and I'm not alone: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140 ).
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-10-20 · in Vscode.dev
  11. …Repositories extension." Also various interesting URLs are now possible: "For example, change https://github.com/microsoft/vscode to ' https://vscode.dev/github.com/Microsoft/vscode '. For Azure Repos, do the same. Change…
    comment by wffurr · 2021-10-20 · in Vscode.dev
  12. …only in the past 1.5 months begun work on a read-only API to even read the set of open tabs, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/15178 and its 93 (!) comments - development of a read-write API is still ongoing in…
    comment by btown · 2021-10-11 · in The CodeRibbon code editor plugin
  13. …return TelemetryLevel.ERROR; case TelemetryConfiguration.OFF: return TelemetryLevel.NONE; } [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625...
  14. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625... If either are 'off', it's sending no data. The new one also allows you to only send error logs, so the truth table would be more complex.
  15. …VSCode binaries from Microsoft come with a binary blob to implement DRM. From the documentation ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between... ): "The distribution includes a native node module that allows the extension…
  16. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme... Test if for yourself if you must. I tested with Wireshark. It does respect your previous setting if it is more restrictive.
  17. …around this messaging it's because this discussion literally happened 2 days ago. I'll reopen https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660 to make sure we clear up confusion.
  18. > for now Looks like it should be "forever" according to this comment: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme... But telemetry is one of those things that you can never trust a company about once it's in. Especially a…
  19. Yea, it's real, you have screenshot in description and PRs https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+telemetr...
  20. …snappy web pages can be used within Electron. All the griping above is really just ignorance. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/search?q=wasm https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/search?q=arraybuffer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc…
    comment by goldenkey · 2021-09-30 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  21. And even VSCode had issues like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by int_19h · 2021-09-30 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  22. indeed, thanks: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
  23. Igelau linked to this thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme... In it, CoenraadS (the extension developer) writes "I follow this thread with interest, my extension is something that grew a bit out of control,…
  24. …it. The quote above is from the maintainer. Looks like he is happy to let it go! Quote source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by schrute · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  25. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by Igelau · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  26. …post here. We openly discussed various approaches with CoenraadS and other extension authors here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by Gehinnn · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  27. …they've just not enabled telemetry by default I assume. [1] Same folder in the original repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/platfor...
  28. VS Code is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode The extension that enables Jupyter Notebooks is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-jupyter
    comment by Ekrub · 2021-09-23 · in JupyterLab Desktop App now available
  29. Here how WebGL is used for the terminal in VSCode, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85971 Or how Rust is used for search via ripgrep. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-ripgrep
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-09-16 · in Windows 11: Just say no
  30. To be fair it was partially related to a bug in Chromium, and was fixed in 2017 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by greggturkington · 2021-09-16 · in Windows 11: Just say no
  31. …from Chromium to dodge issues running on older platforms. Edit: libcxx from Chromium, not libstdc++ https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/129360#issue-952350... > The increase in bundle size is significantly small (~10MB).
    comment by password4321 · 2021-09-13 · in Transmission torrent client ported to C++
  32. Similarly, VSCode faced the same issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 which they then apologised for: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87440 I wonder if the difference in response due to 8 years of shift in…
  33. …you don’t keep unsaved buffers and changes for long periods of time it is at least fairly safe... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/test/smoke/src...
    comment by jchw · 2021-07-21 · in BBEdit 14
  34. …when updating VSCode which caused it to delete the contents of my unsaved/untitled document. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/69972
    comment by losvedir · 2021-07-21 · in BBEdit 14
  35. What VSCode use is JSONC, only allow comments https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688
  36. …Just do Ctrl+K, O or on a Mac Cmd+K, O. You can track when this feature is implemented here - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/8171
    comment by wayneftw · 2021-07-14 · in Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac
  37. The specific comment since HN removed it from the URL. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6328#issuecomment...
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    An individual offered $500 or a Nintendo Switch for an ignored VS Code request
    story by vyrotek · 2021-07-11 · 3 comments
  39. …Here are a couple of public GitHub issues about dictation support in vscode: - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40976 - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/117980#issuecomme...
  40. …signed up for"). [0]: https://github.community/t/release-notifications-from-starre... [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/125951
  41. …say it's considered an 'ideal' codebase, but it's definitely a large and well-maintained one. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/
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    GitHub spamming feeds about VSCode releases
    story by pskinner · 2021-06-10 · 0 comments
  43. I remember this discussion https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by gregors · 2021-06-08 · in CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go
  44. …Workspace Trust to prevent extensions from running untrusted code by merely opening a directory. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/120251#issuecomme...
  45. Why are people using this editor? It is unclear what data is being sent to Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284 There are many other and better editors.
    comment by fksum · 2021-04-15 · in New GitHub themes for VS Code
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    (VSCode) Update RPM dependencies file for newer CXXABI requirement #115784
    story by larkeith · 2021-03-25 · 0 comments
  47. …just recording an input-flow. > because so far there has been 5 years of whining and 0 patches: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4490 Which only means it has no priority. But considering there are 4.7k open issues and 103k…
    comment by slightwinder · 2021-03-21 · in Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
  48. …what this "Open Source" thing is, because so far there has been 5 years of whining and 0 patches: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4490
    comment by sedachv · 2021-03-21 · in Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
  49. …as well, I find it viscerally unpleasant to use solely due to this. There's already a ticket: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
    comment by hedgehog · 2021-03-02 · in Speed Is the Killer Feature
  50. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140