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Heidi is frustratingly consistent at hallucinating stuff. I've seen it in almost all of the dozen or so summaries I've had from medical people recently (surgeon, physio, consultant). A GP I know tried for a month and then was like 'it's not worth the risk exposure to me or my patients'.

beatthatflighton Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes

I know at least one GP that has stopped using Heidi Health for transcription. He (and as I've noticed with transcriptions from my medical professionals) has noticed many errors, far too many to be comfortable. Things might improve, but not yet.

beatthatflighton NZ health app breach: Alive patients marked dead, names changed to Charlie Kirk

100%. It's like a hacker & troll combined, toying with the literal satefy of people who rely on medication.

beatthatflighton Why Kosovo Airport's IATA code (PRN) just drove me insane for a few hours

Git would just say untracked file. I couldn't add it. Finally chatgpt explained. Kosovo's airport code (PRN) is a reserved file/folder name on Windows (facepalm).

beatthatflighton Atrial Fibrillation (AFib): A Guide to Wearable ECG Smart Watches

As someone who regularly gets afib (and doesn't particularly enjoy defibs), any research/work in this is welcomed. Thanks for what you've done!

beatthatflighton Remote MCP Support in Claude Code

easiest one to get going with is to add the Playwright MCP. As a python dev you might have used it to do test automation? Anyway, it gives your tool eg Cursor, Claude Code access to the browser and automation using playwright. Meaning it can literally load a page to confirm its own change just had the desired effect.

The blender one is also fun as a starting point, if you do any 3d modelling (or even if you don't).

beatthatflighton Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

So what about flight searches where we have to query several 3rd party providers, and can take 45 seconds to get results from all of them (out of my control). I can dynamically update the page (and do) but a scraper would have to wait 20-45 seconds to get the 'cheapest' flight from my site. I can add async the queries and have the fastest pipes, but if the upstream providers take their time (they need to query their GDSs as well), there's not much you can do.

beatthatflighton Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

https://www.nativeplants.nz/

Basically a test of putting guard rails around format and content of a website and seeing how much I could automatically generate on a topic of interest to myself.

Biggest benefit I've seen with cursor is to write tests for everything. Far too mcuh content hallucination, or made up links at first, but once you put in some test guardrails you can minimise this.

beatthatflighton Data viz project that maps all earthquakes by magnitude

I played with Kepler GL a couple of years ago to visualise the Canterbury quakes. It's kinda phenomenal to see how frequent the little ones are, and the aftershocks from big ones take a while to drop off...

https://itnext.io/using-kepler-gl-to-visualise-over-35-000-e... for the curious

beatthatflighton Ask HN: How do you sync ongoing browser work between desktop and laptop?

came to say this. Simple, effective.

beatthatflighton INGenious Playwright Studio – Test Automation for Everyone

Just heard this on a testing podcast. As a former INGer (a decade ago) it was fascinating to hear the problems we faced at the time being solved now.

beatthatflighton Ask HN: How do you track copy changes on websites/emails?

variety of CMSs, github and dbs.

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Unless I'm mistaken, the article says drug overdoses is a leading cause of deaths in that category. 1) That's not THE leading, necessarily 2) only 70% of those drug cases were from fentanyl.

It's a hell of a drug and a hell of an epidemic, but if my reading is correct, let's keep headlines more accurate.

beatthatflighton Clouds vanish during a solar eclipse

Been claiming this for years - been to 3 total eclipses and found it weird how the clouds seemed to almost make way for it. Nice to see some science behind it.

beatthatflighton Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Beat That Flight - https://beatthatflight.com.au/ - been my side hustle for nearly 6 years now. White labeled flight & hotel search engine, and I share deals for Aussies (and now Kiwis as well) via FB/email subscription. Not huge income but it means the wife doesn't need to go back to work yet after having kids :)

beatthatflighton Ask HN: What is your best flight booking app/site

I mean I'm partial since it's my site, but I do like Beat That Flight - https://www.beatthatflight.com.au/ - in Australia/New Zealand (although you can use it anywhere, if that wasn't obvious) ;)

I find OTAs are often substantially cheaper, they make their money with upsells (insurance, txt updates, etc) but if you just tick no to everything, you can often get quite the bargain.

beatthatflighton Loco. The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups

Cheers. Interesting. From the few python tools I've seen implemented in Rust, you get some serious performance improvements (see ruff), but haven't had to cut any code in it yet. Might be my chance to have a look.