top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-06-04

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

2 months ago

1574 upvotes – 946 comments

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

2 months ago

1132 upvotes – 934 comments

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support

https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/167e343bbe75515a80db8ee72ffa0c607c944a00

2 months ago

877 upvotes – 199 comments

IRS Direct File on GitHub

https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/

2 months ago

744 upvotes – 318 comments

A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access

2 months ago

680 upvotes – 377 comments

Merlin Bird ID

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

2 months ago

637 upvotes – 215 comments

Why I wrote the BEAM book

https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/why_I_wrote_theBEAMBook/

2 months ago

613 upvotes – 151 comments

Cursor 1.0

https://www.cursor.com/en/changelog/1-0

2 months ago

613 upvotes – 469 comments

Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/musks-tesla-seeks-guard-crash-data-public-disclosure-2025-06-04/

2 months ago

510 upvotes – 430 comments

Prompt engineering playbook for programmers

https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for

2 months ago

464 upvotes – 170 comments
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