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Show HN: Open load forecasts that beat US grid operators on 6 of 7 RTOs

https://surgeforecast.com
2•tylergibbs1•1h ago
Fine-tuned Chronos-2 on 7 years of EIA-930 demand + ASOS temperature for every US balancing authority that publishes a load series — 53 across the three interconnections.

On a 2025 hold-out (~61,000 hours), it beats the operators' own day-ahead submissions to EIA — the production forecasts they use to schedule generation — on 6 of 7 major RTOs. Macro MAE ~40% lower. The one loss is ISO-NE, whose forecasting is just very good (24h-ahead MASE 0.34). On the same window, CAISO and SPP operator submissions did worse than "same as yesterday."

The site plots the median + 80% PI band against the operator submission, with 48h of actuals running into the forecast.

Code, model on HF, operator-comparison benchmark reproduces from one script:

- https://github.com/tylergibbs1/surge - https://huggingface.co/Tylerbry1/surge-fm-v3

Show HN: Reproducible benchmark – OpenAI charges 1.5x-3.3x more for non-English

https://github.com/vfalbor/llm-language-token-tax
1•vfalbor•1m ago•0 comments

I Like the Web They Want

https://vasilis.nl/nerd/2026/i-like-the-web-they-want/
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Labor Automation Forecasting Hub on Metaculus Measures Impact of AI on Labor

https://www.metaculus.com/labor-hub/
1•postreal•4m ago•1 comments

DeWitt Clauses

https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/
1•thomasahle•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Enlist AI: A tool that turns any job description into a study plan

https://enlistai.vercel.app
1•lilprince1218•7m ago•0 comments

Efficiently Transfer Files to LibreOffice Calc: A Step-by-Step Guide

https://shunspirit.com/article/how-to-transfer-files-to-libre-office-calc
1•rolph•12m ago•0 comments

Transitioning from Corporate to Open Source at 23 y.o

https://www.tharropoulos.dev/blog/transitioning-from-corporate-to-open-source/
2•tharropoulos•12m ago•0 comments

What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

https://www.kirsle.net/what-we-once-had-at-the-height-of-the-xmpp-era-of-the-internet
2•birdculture•13m ago•0 comments

Agent-consistency – a Python consistency layer for multi-agent workflows

https://github.com/karimbaidar/agent-consistency-refund-demo
1•baidarkarim•13m ago•0 comments

Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/10755/blogpost/124992/modern-board-games-and-why-you-should-play-them
1•maayank•15m ago•0 comments

Scaling Claude beyond individual workflows – lessons from our team

https://ninkovic.dev/blog/2026/scaling-claude-beyond-individual-workflows
1•nemwiz•15m ago•0 comments

Language Modeling Without Neural Networks

https://nathan.rs/posts/unbounded-n-gram/
1•nathan-barry•16m ago•0 comments

Power tools got worse on purpose

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power-tools-got-worse-on-purpose
1•longhaul•17m ago•0 comments

A New Chapter for Ruby Central

https://rubycentral.org/news/a-new-chapter-for-ruby-central/
1•campuscodi•19m ago•0 comments

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
3•hasheddan•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source alternative HN front page with point highlights and search

https://github.com/pretzelai/hackernewsx
1•ramonga•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex

https://github.com/dchu917/ctx
2•dchu17•21m ago•0 comments

The Bacterial Flagellar Motor: What Physical Life Force Turns Biology's Wheels?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
1•ganitam•21m ago•0 comments

We Accepted Surveillance as Default

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance
16•speckx•22m ago•2 comments

China to break U.S. reliance after uncovering €1.4B cache of ultra-pure quartz

https://www.leravi.org/china-poised-to-break-final-u-s-reliance-after-uncovering-e1-4-billion-cac...
3•frasermarlow•23m ago•0 comments

Why you should work for a top tier tech company

https://jsavage.xyz/2026/04/20/why-you-should-work-for-a-top-tier-tech-company/
2•JSavageOne•24m ago•0 comments

Humanoid robots show rapid advances racing past humans in Beijing half-marathon

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/19/humanoid-robots-race-beijing-half-marathon
1•KolmogorovComp•25m ago•0 comments

The economy of software just flipped

https://tomash.wrug.eu/blog/2026/04/19/new-modularity/
1•lackoftactics•25m ago•0 comments

Distributed Terminal Game for 24 Players (No Server)

https://github.com/ObliviousCompute/ObliviousCompute/blob/main/Byzantium/README.md
1•InfiniteMass•25m ago•1 comments

Ormah – Collective Memory Layer that whispers to your agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IngB55jdnlc
1•rajit2•25m ago•1 comments

Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/random-thoughts-while-gazing-at-the
1•gmays•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Make an immutable web flipbook from any doc, video or browser replay

https://browser-session-8faya.pages.dev
1•keepamovin•26m ago•1 comments

Ukraine's Second Miracle Year

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-second-miracle-year-putin-trump-zelensky-war-drones-oil-exp...
2•kaycebasques•26m ago•0 comments

General Health Checks Are Harmful

https://brownstone.org/articles/general-health-checks-are-harmful/
1•nradov•26m ago•0 comments

Epistemic Suicide in AI: How Binary Feedback Distorts Model Reasoning

https://medium.com/@erinacius4455/epistemic-suicide-in-ai-how-binary-feedback-quietly-destroys-re...
1•alex_gold•27m ago•0 comments