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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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    Insider Build of VSCode for Windows/ARM64
    story by soapdog · 2020-05-29 · 79 comments
  2. …of magnitude lower latency than vscode[2] [1] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
    comment by gruez · 2020-05-19 · in Electron 9.0
  3. Yup. I'm just shocked that https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76594#issuecommen... has been open for more than year now. Two finger scroll that lags for up to 1 second! Imagine the uproar if Apple introduced this bug into XCode and…
    comment by taliesinb · 2020-05-19 · in Electron 9.0
  4. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_45#_faster-syntax-h... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/95958
    comment by WorldMaker · 2020-05-13 · in Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io
  5. ▲ 2
    Vs Code Hypnotize
    story by aleksandarbos · 2020-05-11 · 1 comment
  6. …a part of VS Code codebase. Perhaps, this is it (though, I very well might be wrong on this, too): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/master/src/vs/workb... .
    comment by ablekh · 2020-05-07 · in GitHub Codespaces
  7. Could be worse: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 the famous “we changed the names of common git operations, oh boy was that a bad idea” bug.
    comment by hprotagonist · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
  8. …items could be included, though the installer code seems to be included in the source code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/win32/...
    comment by darrenkopp · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
  9. …Google Chrome with the source on GitHub analogous to Chromium. Explanation from Microsoft employee: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... Visual Studio Code license: https://code.visualstudio.com/license Official…
    comment by gpm · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
  10. [citation needed] Telemetry is plainly visible in the VS Code source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/8ffcb49f4fbeb250405...
    comment by efdee · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
  11. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode MIT Licenced Am I missing something?
    comment by mwill · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
  12. …a chance to misinform. VS Code is open source. It's MIT licensed. You can get the source code here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by AshleyGrant · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
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    VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018)
    story by teekert · 2020-04-29 · 90 comments
  14. ▲ 1
    Visual Studio Code for iPad
    story by tosh · 2020-04-29 · 0 comments
  15. …yesterday it was added to the backlog) [0]. This will be very useful in persisting terminals. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/90696
    comment by dfee · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals
  16. …* You can file issues and provide feedback as we try to improve continously https://github.com/microsoft/vscode * Feel free to ping me @isidorn on either of those or on Twitter. And let me know if we can help more. I wish you all the
    comment by isidorn · 2020-04-20 · in Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
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    Please help get critical Emacs feature in VSCode
    story by cpr · 2020-04-19 · 1 comment
  18. …VS Code repo was as simple as adding a dev dependency to `deemon` and adding a new `watchd` script: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/4e8408d4c4dafae88f7... . You can try it out right now using `npx`: simply run `npx deemon BUILD…
    comment by joaomoreno · 2020-04-17 · in Show HN: deemon, run a process in the background and attach to it
  19. …actually doing. I.e. what do 'refresh' and 'sync' do in VS Code? The consequences could be dire: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 > reverting a commit is 2-3 clicks, or a whole lot of typing. Git revert is a single command;…
    comment by jldugger · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
  20. …of editors since at least the 80s. Keyboard macros in other editors has saved me 100s of hours. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490
    comment by greggman3 · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
  21. ▲ 2
    On the genesis of VSCode Remote Development extensions
    story by timhigins · 2020-04-10 · 0 comments
  22. …just impossible to search. [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differen... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
    comment by correct_horse · 2020-04-01 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
  23. ▲ 3
    “When you clone the vscode repo, your build is licensed under the MIT license”
    story by nailer · 2020-04-01 · 1 comment
  24. …open base upon which VSCode is built. VS Code's branding, telemetry and more are closed-source. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... for a full explanation.
    comment by correct_horse · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
  25. I mean, do they think we are idiots? Visual Studio Code is clearly open source with an MIT license. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode EDIT: OH WAIT - I see - they forked at least parts of Visual Studio Code and then open sourced it. In…
    comment by outside1234 · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
  26. …(likewise these are not licensed). Almost exactly like Red Hat Linux compared to CentOS. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...
    comment by nailer · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
  27. …there. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/ [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode [4] https://www.jetbrains.com/go/
    comment by guessmyname · 2020-03-30 · in Choosing Between Rust or Go?
  28. …that'd be amazing. There is some projects[1] going on but using some non-viable workaround [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764
    comment by burgerquizz · 2020-03-18 · in New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
  29. …Atom, well, wasn't. If commit activity graphs are really a meaningful measure, look at VSCode's: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/graphs/commit-activity The number of commits per, uh, date unit (the graph is not super clear on that…
    comment by chipotle_coyote · 2020-03-17 · in NPM Is Joining GitHub
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    THIS THING DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK!!!!
    story by floetic · 2020-02-27 · 5 comments
  31. …there was huge meme thread going on in that issue or in reddit/hn when that thing was happening. 1: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by vhakulinen · 2020-02-17 · in NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
  32. …supplied in the Python extension. I LOVE this feedback! Keep it coming (though entering issues https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python would be ideal) Yes, as conner4312 VS Code is investigating how to better incorporate a juypter…
    comment by greazer · 2020-01-30 · in Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm
  33. …like vi mode aren't inherited. (Disclaimer: I work on VS Code, but am not working on notebooks) 1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/88243
    comment by connor4312 · 2020-01-30 · in Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm
  34. …the author of calva asking for more than just simple :before and :after line decorators in vscode. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220#issuecomment... Has calva been able to better handle inline errors and large results better?…
    comment by ledgerdev · 2020-01-25 · in Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (2016)
  35. …best to show some data inline, but unfortunately vs-code doesn't support displaying inline results https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220
    comment by ledgerdev · 2020-01-24 · in Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (2016)
  36. …bad style will force you away to spend time with your family. As for the Santa Hat “controversy” ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 ), I think it’s utterly ridiculous. Merry Christmas
    comment by jpxw · 2019-12-25 · in Ask HN: Are you offended by the HN Christmas styles?
  37. (Incase someone doesn't get the reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87419 )
    comment by shultays · 2019-12-24 · in Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Happy New Year
  38. For anyone confused here is the original that this is referencing: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by neaden · 2019-12-21 · in I'm Buddhist and I'm Offended
  39. Original ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by tdons · 2019-12-20 · in Visual Studio Code repository is open again
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    Visual Studio Code repository is open again
    story by taspeotis · 2019-12-20 · 163 comments
  41. Original complaint which led to removal: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by amingilani · 2019-12-20 · in VS Code is getting flak for removing Santa hat emoji
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    VS Code is getting flak for removing Santa hat emoji
    story by amingilani · 2019-12-20 · 7 comments
  43. ▲ 3
    What gives you the right to “fix” a bug? What about the feelings of the bug?
    story by shirian · 2019-12-20 · 1 comment
  44. There's also some amusing issues being reported in response: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3... > Color themes are offensive to blind (and colorblind) users > Snowflake doesn't represent people in the southern…
    comment by halgir · 2019-12-20 · in Santa Hat on VScode Insiders
  45. ▲ 3
    Visual Studio Code’s Closed Issues
    story by taspeotis · 2019-12-20 · 0 comments
  46. …How many Christians have actually died for Christmas as well? Have a fuckin' spine Microsoft. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by WhiteOwlLion · 2019-12-19 · in VS Code Issue Tracker Meltdown
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    VS Code Issue Tracker Meltdown
    story by dustinmoris · 2019-12-19 · 4 comments
  48. Unsurprisingly, there are related (for want of a better word) issues appearing: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87341 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87348 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87342 The issue…
    comment by petecooper · 2019-12-19 · in Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint
  49. And of course the opposite issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87291
    comment by ihalip · 2019-12-19 · in Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint
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    Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint
    story by drak0n1c · 2019-12-19 · 157 comments