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Show HN: The Forecaster Test- based on Tetlock's superforecasting research

https://www.forecaster-test.com/
1•joshuafkon•2h ago
In Tetlock's 20-year Expert Political Judgment study, domain experts performed no better in their own field than outside it — and "hedgehog" specialists actually did worse when predicting within their specialty. The Good Judgment Project (Tetlock & Mellers) later found that superforecasters weren't dramatically smarter than average participants — what separated them was thinking style. What predicts accuracy? Calibration, Bayesian reasoning, and willingness to update beliefs. These traits beat raw intelligence and domain knowledge. I built a 10-minute test that measures them:

Bayesian updating: Commit to a probability, receive new evidence, update. Tests whether you move the right direction and magnitude. Calibration: When you say 80% confident, are you right 80% of the time? Replication prediction: Predict whether famous psychology studies replicated. Instant feedback since outcomes are known.

Free, no signup. Results show where you're calibrated vs. overconfident, and how you handle disconfirming evidence. Looking for feedback on questions and scoring. Research basis is Tetlock, Mellers, Baron, and Stanovich — but I'm sure there are improvements to make.

Show HN: New feature: "Voices" – fictional commentary alongside current news

https://newzino.com/story/russia-ukraine-energy-infrastructure
1•bidwellm•32s ago•0 comments

How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/how-over-engineering-became-the-new-technical-debt-in-distributed-s...
1•zdw•1m ago•0 comments

Dead Code

https://underlap.org/dead-code/
2•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

Why I'm launching a feminist video games website in 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jan/26/why-im-launching-a-feminist-video-games-website-in-...
1•cf100clunk•4m ago•0 comments

An HTML Standard for AI Use Disclosure

https://github.com/dweekly/ai-content-disclosure
1•dweekly•5m ago•0 comments

Purpose-Built AI for Nuclear

https://nuclearn.ai/
1•minton•6m ago•0 comments

Letting Yourself Catch Up

https://nik.art/letting-yourself-catch-up/
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

Zero Knowledge Proof of a Product

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/01/24/proving-you-know-a-product/
1•ibobev•6m ago•0 comments

Fortunes and Geometric Means

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/01/24/geometric-means/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Using Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS)

https://spring-agriculture.com/article-using-galileo-has.html
1•chrisb•7m ago•0 comments

Lego Brick Clog

https://www.lego.com/de-de/product/brick-clog-5010203
1•chr1ngel•7m ago•0 comments

EU, India conclude major trade deal: New Delhi

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260126-eu-india-successfully-conclude-major-trade-deal-ne...
3•saubeidl•7m ago•0 comments

Omikron: The Nomad Soul

https://www.filfre.net/2026/01/omikron-the-nomad-soul/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

Scientists launch AI DinoTracker app that identifies dinosaur footprints

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/26/scientists-launch-ai-dinotracker-app-that-identif...
1•hackerbeat•8m ago•0 comments

Pinning Is Futile

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06662
1•mhsdef•8m ago•0 comments

Scraping parking tickets in 1,300+ US cities using API vulnerability

https://www.jack.bio/blog/parkingtickets
2•lafond•9m ago•0 comments

Tether Gold Accounts for More Than Half the Gold-Backed Stablecoin Market

https://tether.io/news/tether-gold-accounts-for-more-than-half-the-entire-gold-backed-stablecoin-...
1•janandonly•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to prevent Claude/GPT/Gemini from reinforcing your biases?

1•akshay326•12m ago•0 comments

Free webinar 1/29: PostgreSQL 18 performance, indexing, & replication features

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0235AXQERaybzWCKYHaovQ
1•pgedge_postgres•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CLI for text-to-speech using OpenAI/Deepgram/Elevenlabs

https://github.com/schappim/gospeak
1•schappim•12m ago•0 comments

Claude in Excel

https://claude.com/claude-in-excel
1•kjhughes•14m ago•0 comments

Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-twisty-shapes-resolve-a-centuries-old-topology-puzzle-20260120/
1•tzury•14m ago•0 comments

Galene Videoconference Server

https://github.com/jech/galene
1•porjo•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CKB – Code intelligence for AI assistants (impact, dead code, security)

https://www.codeknowledge.dev
1•SimplyLiz•18m ago•0 comments

Over 2000 Company-Sanctioned Uses for WD-40

https://files.wd40.com/pdf/WD-40_Multi_Use_Product_2000_Uses_final.pdf?_gl=1*1egup3j*_gcl_au*MjQ0...
6•bookofjoe•20m ago•1 comments

Is almost everyone wrong about America's AI power problem?

https://epochai.substack.com/p/is-almost-everyone-wrong-about-americas
1•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

The Symbol Grounding Problem (1990)

https://arxiv.org/html/cs/9906002
2•Fibra•24m ago•0 comments

Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honors terms

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-ceo-says-ice-contract-will-stand-as-lo...
3•cdrnsf•25m ago•0 comments

Silver price hits fresh record above $112, up 45% in January

https://ts2.tech/en/silver-price-hits-fresh-record-above-112-as-haven-demand-bites-slv-jumps/
2•JumpinJack_Cash•26m ago•0 comments

1931 Ford Model a Hot Rod Bridges Generations with a Civic Type R Engine

https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-1931-ford-model-a-hot-rod-bridges-a-generational-gap-with-a-ci...
3•PaulHoule•30m ago•0 comments