top 50% 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: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?

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

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

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

Binary Wordle

https://wordle.chengeric.com/

1 year ago

LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?

https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elixir-windfall-or-deathblow

1 year ago

A practical guide to building agents [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/business-guides-and-resources/a-practical-guide-to-building-agents.pdf

1 year ago

parrot.live

https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live

1 year ago

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

https://restofworld.org/2025/employee-surveillance-software-vc-funding/

1 year ago

Go is a good fit for agents

https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/go-agents

1 year ago

How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025

https://xania.org/202506/how-compiler-explorer-works

1 year ago

Machine Code Isn't Scary

https://jimmyhmiller.com/machine-code-isnt-scary

1 year ago

Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook

https://news.sky.com/story/meta-found-covertly-tracking-android-users-through-instagram-and-facebook-13379083

1 year ago

Mistral Code

https://mistral.ai/products/mistral-code

1 year ago

A manager is not your best friend

https://staysaasy.com/management/2025/06/02/your-manager-is-not-your-best-friend.html

1 year ago

"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

https://sparktoro.com/blog/ai-will-replace-all-the-jobs-is-just-tech-execs-doing-marketing/

1 year ago

Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models

https://www.adamcad.com/

1 year ago

How we reduced the impact of zombie clients

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/06/04/how-we-reduced-the-impact-of-zombie-clients/

1 year ago

AGI is not multimodal

https://thegradient.pub/agi-is-not-multimodal/

1 year ago

Redesigned Swift.org is now live

https://swift.org/

1 year ago

We are no longer a serious country

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-no-longer-a-serious-country

1 year ago

When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/06/04/history_computer_vision/

1 year ago

A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b

1 year ago

Doubling Down on Open Source

https://langfuse.com/blog/2025-06-04-open-sourcing-langfuse-product

1 year ago

Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/amelia-earharts-reckless-final-flights

1 year ago

Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/03/comparing-system-prompts-across-claude-versions.html

1 year ago

Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024)

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-cheap-ultrapure-titanium-metal-enable.amp

1 year ago

The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/06/03/2155

1 year ago

Ada and SPARK enter the automotive ISO-26262 market with Nvidia

https://www.adacore.com/press/ada-and-spark-enter-the-automotive-iso-26262-market-with-nvidia

1 year ago

A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

1 year ago

Why is PS3 emulation so fast: RPCS3 optimizations explained [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ae5Mq2lJE

1 year ago

Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases?

https://www.ladanuzhna.xyz/writing/just-how-bad-are-we-at-treating-age-related-diseases

1 year ago

Claude Code is now available to Pro plans

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-claude-code-with-your-pro-or-max-plan

1 year ago

The Gutting of America's Medical Research

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html

1 year ago

Show HN: App.build, an open-source AI agent that builds full-stack apps

https://www.app.build/

1 year ago

Authentication with Axum

https://mattrighetti.com/2025/05/03/authentication-with-axum

1 year ago

Show HN: Hacker News historic upvote and score data

https://hn.dunkirk.sh/

1 year ago