MAMattSayar·Jul 15, 2025Submission
Read GitHub repos in one second in VSCode
3 points · Open discussionconwnet
github1s
TypeScript2021–2025
conwnet / github1s
github1s
One second to read GitHub code with VS Code.
10Distinct people
12Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
23.3KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
One second to read GitHub code with VS Code.
GitHub
Where it is used
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What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year12 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2021-02-09 10:41:01 UTC to 2025-07-15 21:20:19 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 3 | 8 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
12 sourcesI am still proud of [github1s](https://github.com/conwnet/github1s)
No Credits given :( => https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/346
In Web-based editorI am still proud of [github1s](https://github.com/conwnet/github1s)
No Credits given :( => https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/346
In Web-based editorIt's cool but it's an iframe over https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
In Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using ReactYes, it's an iframe embedding a third party service, https://github1s.com/. "It appeared sufficiently like I was actually in a VSCode instance" because it is a VSCode instance.
Source code here: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
Discussed a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26083919
In Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using ReactOr open the repo in github1s so you don't have to clone anything: https://github1s.com/timvisee/send/
For more info see: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
In Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox SendI really like the idea of CodeTour, but unfortunately I'm the only person at the office that uses VS Code.
I'm hoping that some day it'll be possible for my coworkers to follow a CodeTour without installing VS Code.
Either when GitHub Codespaces reaches general availability or if I ever find the time and motivation to learn enough about github1s [1] and CodeTour to integrate the two.
1: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
In CodeTour: VS Code extension to record and play guided walkthroughs of codebasesQuestion: Are github1s and github.surf related in any way?
2 points · Open discussionI'm trying to reverse engineer how it works..
It is a static webpage, hosted on Github Pages
https://conwnet.github.io/github1s
And, here is the static webpage source-code:
https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/blob/gh-pages/404.html
In Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS CodeExcept for branches with slashes in them... https://github.com/conwnet/github1s/issues/22#issuecomment-7...
In Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS CodeGithub1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
1,692 points · Open discussionOne second to read GitHub code with VS Code
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