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old-school-zedless

(old variant) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

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What it is

(old variant) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-08-20 18:47:03 UTC to 2025-08-20 22:32:47 UTC.

0122025-08-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-20 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20, 18:002025-08-20 19:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-20 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-08-20 20:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-20 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20, 20:002025-08-20 21:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-20 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-20 22:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-20 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20, 22:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20, 18:002025-08-20 18:00:00 UTC2025-08-20 19:00:00 UTC110
Aug 20, 19:002025-08-20 19:00:00 UTC2025-08-20 20:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20, 20:002025-08-20 20:00:00 UTC2025-08-20 21:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 21:002025-08-20 21:00:00 UTC2025-08-20 22:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20, 22:002025-08-20 22:00:00 UTC2025-08-20 23:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Comment from the author: https://lobste.rs/c/wmqvug > Since someone mentioned forking, I suppose I’ll use this opportunity to advertise my fork of Zed: https://github.com/zedless-editor/zed > I’m gradually removing all the features I deem undesirable: telemetry, auto-updates, proprietary cloud-only AI integrations, reliance on node.js, auto-downloading of language servers, upsells, the sign-in button, etc. I’m also aiming to make some of the cloud-only features self-hostable where it makes sense, e.g. running Zeta edit predictions off of your own llama.cpp or vLLM instance. It’s currently good enough to be my main editor, though I tend to be a bit behind on updates since there is a lot of code churn and my way of modifying the codebase isn’t exactly ideal for avoiding merge conflicts. To that end I’m experimenting with using tree-sitter t
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o automatically apply AST-level edits, which might end up becoming a tool that can build customizable “unshittified” versions of Zed.
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