Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

This is getting downvoted but I actually quite appreciated it. Story is interesting enough I'll listen to the whole podcast! I can't do that for every single podcast link that I come across. There's not enough time in the year much less the day.

Thanks. I don’t have time to listen and reading a transcript of casual conversation is awful.

Yeah, hn will just downvote anything with the word ai-generated in it blindly.

Here's a better version, with images, in the style of a traditional print newspaper article: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/1e1254bf207c4d98862e040136...

Not sure if it helps anyone else, but for me it made the story a lot easier to grasp.

I wrote most of it by hand, using an LLM just for a rough outline which I then manually rewrote line by line, streamlined, removed hallucinations, double-checked all quotes, reordered and added images and links.

It's AI generated, how do I know if it's accurate? It could be making up the whole thing.

If that concerns you, read the actual transcript. I honestly don’t care how accurate this is because beyond casual interest right now, I’m likely never going to think about this again.

That's why you should combine AI and manual work. AI is great to get a rough template for a story, or to rephrase sentences.

Take a look at the revision history of my summary (linked elsewhere in this thread). In the end I had to replace all the quotes and rewrite half of the paragraphs to make sure everything's factually correct, but the end result still has much better tone and phrasing than anything I could've written without AI.

Your summary is fine. That's different from what the OP of this thread posted.

AI summary tools are probably more accurate than the average HN comment!

It’s useful not because it lets you skip the podcast and get all the info. But because it gives a glimpse and lets you decide whether to listen for 60 minutes or not.