Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Defeat in Hungary’s Election

You're next Donny
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Agentic Engineering - Part 1 – Pingfan Hu My experiences of effectively using AI for personal workflows, with a focus on Claude Code.

@pingfanhu.bsky.social has an amazing 3-part blog series on agentic engineering workflows:

Part 1 - Claude code basics: pingfanhu.com/blog/2026-03...
Part 2 - Workflow and examples: pingfanhu.com/blog/2026-04...
Part 3 - Software that ties it together: pingfanhu.com/blog/2026-04...

A map showing Vietnam (outlined in red) overlaid on Iran (outlined in blue) for size comparison. Vietnam fits well within Iran's borders, illustrating that Iran is significantly larger in land area than Vietnam.

At its peak, the US had over half a million soldiers deployed to Vietnam, with a total of 2.7 million served over the course of the war, and US forces still failed to secure the country

GitHub - ultraworkers/claw-code: [Notice] The repo temporarily locked while ownership transfer. in the meantime we maintain on here: https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code-parity. The fastest repo ... [Notice] The repo temporarily locked while ownership transfer. in the meantime we maintain on here: https://github.com/ultraworkers/claw-code-parity. The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K sta...

This is monumental...the entire open source world now has access to a #python version of Claude code, with a #rust port coming soon. This is the fastest repo in history to surpass 100k stars. Absolutely wild that the most powerful AI coding agent is now just out there.

github.com/ultraworkers...

While this specific case is misleading, there's no doubt the content of the article points to a very real threat, one that we may not even be able to detect. That is, LLM responses may already be riddled throughout our data (possibly even in this case) and we may not even be able to tell.

💯

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

Oof...damning evidence of AI responses on online surveys. The battle against AI survey bots is well underway, and it doesn't look like the humans are winning

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The very best stats course you can get is still free. Absolutely amazing stuff.

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social on point👇

If you think that's cool, wait til yoy see my market research tech

Has there ever been a time when the strategy of "if we just keep bombing civilians eventually they'll finally rise up to overthrow their oppressive government" ever worked?

From the Julia community on Reddit: I ported Karpathy's microgpt to Julia in 99 lines - no dependencies, manual backprop, ~1600× faster than CPython and ~4x faster than Rust. Explore this post and more from the Julia community

Someone ported Karpathy's microGPT to pure #julialang in 99 lines with 0 dependencies, it's 1600x faster than CPython... hard to emphasize enough how impressive this is
www.reddit.com/r/Julia/s/Vg...

#opensource always wins 😎

There's just as much thinking going on in how I use agents, they just write code for me. I still architect, execute, and test, which is where all the serious thinking lies in coding. Agents just write the tedious bits with fewer human errors (typos).

More likely that we'll need to clarify the opposite, as in "I wrote this code by hand"

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …

@simonwillison.net is the first I've heard use the term "agentic engineering", which feels like a much better description of how I use tools like Claude Code (as opposed to "vibe coding", which implies no human architecting the result). Great stuff in this post:

simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/...

Create Interactive Graphs with Echarts JavaScript Version 6 Easily create interactive charts by leveraging the Echarts Javascript library which includes 36 chart types, themes, Shiny proxies and animations.

echarts4r
echarts4r.john-coene.com

Sharing a new #opensource project we've been building: vehicletrends.us — an interactive dashboard tracking U.S. automotive market trends from millions of listings. Data is available via the {vehicletrends} #rstats package. Site made with #Quarto, code at github.com/vehicletrends 🚗 📊

At the EV Crossroads: China Surges, the U.S. Stalls - The Greenhouse YouTube video by GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future

Check out this wide-ranging discussion I had with Frank Sesno, director of the Alliance for a Sustainable Future at GWU. Topics include EV competition, US-based EV production, facing the challenge of Chinese EV leadership, and national security (among other things).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMz...

I wanted a totally static site with no server, would that framework be able to handle that? I never used plumber but heard lots about it.

Yup. For a long time I relied on shiny because it was easy to build, and I just lived with production bottle necks. No more. I think we're going to see an explosion of custom builds using tools and frameworks that we only barely understand but can get working

Note that the main data file, the PMTiles files, is hosted on cloudflare to make it accessible for the actual map, but I also exported the data file as a release on that GitHub repo

GitHub - vehicletrends/hhi-map: US Vehicle Market Concentration (HHI) Map - Interactive census tract map viewer US Vehicle Market Concentration (HHI) Map - Interactive census tract map viewer - vehicletrends/hhi-map

github.com/vehicletrend...

Actually I have made the HHI metric I calculated publicly available. It's just the underlying raw data that can't be made available. I'm putting it all into a R package, so look out for that soon.

Yes, JS for sure. The whole file is linked below, and yeah I could never have written it myself. I tinkered with other frameworks like shinylive, but it was just too slow. Once I started over from scratch, plain html was the solution github.com/vehicletrend...

Underlying data is licensed from marketcheck.com, which collects detailed listings data from dealerships across the country. This is part of a larger analysis I've been doing with some data from them. HHI is a measure of market concentration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfind...

Still works for me, not sure why it isn't for you

That's just plain HTML, which Claude code wrote for me. It's a new age now where all you need is the idea and CC will build the code.

We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🤯

It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare

vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/

Ousted Korean President Yoon Sentenced to Life Over Martial Law Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces life in prison after being found guilty of leading an insurrection with his 2024 martial law declaration, a move that shocked the nation and triggered...

So jealous of S. Korea
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...