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How “vscode” trended on Hacker News

“Vscode” was mentioned 33,588 times on Hacker News between 2015 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2022 with 592 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “vscode” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “vscode”

1. 1.My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback 1,251 points · 480 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork 954 points · 366 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Vscode.dev 803 points · 260 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas 737 points · 511 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub 699 points · 226 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla 429 points · 343 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode 396 points · 107 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry? 388 points · 181 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative 347 points · 154 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? 316 points · 398 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language 298 points · 126 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet 291 points · 122 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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