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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) by _Chief on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:22AM (#43822485)
Love this! Thank you for sharing! My backend is also in Go so this is a godsend. Will see how I can incorporate and let you know if I do!

> not having sanctioned access to real-time blood sugar values (the APIs are all one hour behind)

Ah, I didn't know this. One of the prospective tools I had in mind was real time alerting in case of drastic drops eg ping doctor or relative. I think will have to be limited to the apps/tools that do support realtime.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) by jekude on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:59AM (#43822930)
Technically there is unsanctioned access (someone reverse engineered the real-time APIs [1] which I ported to Go). I think the FDA does not want easy access to real-time values so that folks can't easily recommend insulin dosing without oversight. I am personally of the opinion that it is our right to have programmatic access to the real-time data and do with it what we please.

Would love to get in touch to hear more about your long-term vision for the project!

[1] https://github.com/gagebenne/pydexcom

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) by pbhjpbhj on Monday April 28, 2025 @05:10PM (#43826152)
>so that folks can't easily recommend insulin dosing without oversight //

Is there genuinely a consideration here beyond not allowing activity without paying money to the hegemony?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) by jekude on Monday April 28, 2025 @09:15PM (#43827823)
Insulin is lethal at higher dosages, so there is definitely an argument. My counter would be that someone who has to self administer this drug 5+ times a day should have the right to make determinations about dosing
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