The 10 second test that keeps missing heart failure Margaret is 68. She gets breathless on a hill, sleeps on two pillows, and her ECG looks "normal." Six months later she is in the ED with fluid filled lungs. Her echo shows HFpEF, the stiff heart type that makes up half of all heart failure and is missed most often. What if her first ECG already held the answer? I broke down a new preprint from Norway where researchers trained an open source AI on 284,000 ECGs using a clever fix they call pragmatic labelling. Instead of trusting noisy ICD codes alone, they paired codes with NT-proBNP. The result is a model that reads raw 12 lead voltage and spots heart failure across the full EF spectrum. In prospective testing on 43,109 patients it hit AUC 0.84 overall, 0.91 for HFrEF, and up to 0.96 with strict labelling. It even outperformed NT-proBNP head to head, and flagged HFpEF in patients with normal biomarkers. No new hardware. Just better eyes on the ECG you already order. I wrote a simple walkthrough of how it works, where it fits in primary care, and what it gets wrong. Read the full breakdown here: https://sharetxt.live/blog/heart-failure-detection-in-ecg-using-ai

Tracking Tech Sentiment in Real-Time with VADER and Python What does the developer community feel about your product? Not what they say in reviews — what do they actually feel when they mention it on Hacker News or Reddit? I built a Sentiment Analyzer that fetches posts from HN and Reddit, runs VADER sentiment analysis, and outputs structured scores. Here's how it works. What It Does The tool pulls posts from two sources: Hacker News : Top or new stories via the official Firebase API Reddit : Any subreddit, sorted by hot, new, top, or rising Each post gets analysed with VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) — a rule-based model tuned for social media text. No GPU required, no API keys, no latency. What You Get Each analysed post includes: { "source" : "hackernews" , "title" : "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix" , "sentiment" : "neutral" , "sentimentScores" : { "positive" : 0.0 , "neutral" : 1.0 , "negative" : 0.0 , "compound" : 0.0 }, "keywords" : [ "shadcn" , "ui" , "defaults" , "base" , "radix" ], "score" : 43 , "commentsCount" : 3 } The compound score ranges from -1 (very negative) to +1 (very positive). Anything below -0.05 is classified negative, above 0.05 is positive, and in between is neutral. Why VADER Instead of an LLM? Three reasons: Speed : VADER processes 10,000+ posts per second. An LLM call takes 1-2 seconds per post. Cost : VADER is free and runs locally. LLM sentiment analysis costs per token. Consistency : Rule-based models give identical results every time. LLMs can be inconsistent across runs. For high-volume monitoring tasks — like tracking every HN post mentioning your product — VADER is the right tool. Real-World Use Cases Brand Monitoring Set the analyzer to fetch posts from r/yourproduct and HN search for your brand name. Get daily sentiment reports. Catch negative sentiment before it escalates. Trend Detection Track sentiment around technologies like "AI agents", "Rust", or "WebAssembly" across both platfo

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