Viselkedéstudomány.hu

Viselkedéstudomány.hu was a unique Hungarian-language knowledge base covering cognitive biases, heuristics, and decision psychology. Zoltán Szécsényi — my university classmate and informal mentor — used it as a recurring reference point in professional discussions for years. When the site disappeared from the internet, we decided to save it.

Zoltán contacted the current domain owner, who wasn't using it, and successfully purchased it. Meanwhile, I systematically recovered the remaining content from web.archive.org using custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools I had built. A Cheerio + Axios scraper crawled the archived pages, cleaned the HTML, and converted 173 articles into Markdown format.

During the process, we managed to reach the original author, who agreed to let us use the translated content. The new site was built on Next.js with Static Site Generation (SSG) for lightning-fast loading and SEO-friendly rendering.

The articles explore hidden patterns in human thinking: from the Backfire Effect to survivorship bias to the illusion of control. Each article includes the original English terminology (e.g., 'present bias', 'survivorship bias'). The material remains valuable for anyone working with people, decisions, organizations, and economic questions.

As Zoltán put it: 'Some things don't need to be reinvented — they need to be saved from being forgotten.' That's what this project was about.