top 20 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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support

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

1 year ago

IRS Direct File on GitHub

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

Merlin Bird ID

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

1 year ago

Why I wrote the BEAM book

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

1 year ago

Cursor 1.0

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

1 year ago

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/

1 year ago

Prompt engineering playbook for programmers

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

1 year ago

The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/right-repair-law-washington-state

1 year ago

DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format

https://diffx.org/

1 year ago

Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia

https://www.science.org/content/article/cockatoos-have-learned-operate-drinking-fountains-australia

1 year ago

The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps

https://tech.marksblogg.com/apple-iphone-15-pro-depth-map-heic.html

1 year ago

Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-delft-defeats-human-champions-in-historic-racing-first

1 year ago

Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-gpus-are-now-generally-available

1 year ago

Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176514

1 year ago

Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176510

1 year ago

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile

1 year ago

Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple-notes-rumored-markdown-support-ios-26/

1 year ago