Hacker News: spoctrial

New comment by spoctrial in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

spoctrial — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:30:24 +0000

The parent comment is not presenting a false dichotomy but is making precisely the point that it is how you apply the laws that matter; that just having laws is not enough.

New comment by spoctrial in "RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js"

spoctrial — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:26:08 +0000

POC: https://github.com/Ashwesker/Blackash-CVE-2025-55182/

New comment by spoctrial in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

spoctrial — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:00:18 +0000

Why don't you start a non-profit that gives laptop to kids so you can decide over the kind of machine to procure. These constant opinions on other peoples decisions where you have no insight to the whys is very ego-centric in a i-know-best kind of way.

New comment by spoctrial in "Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose"

spoctrial — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:32:19 +0000

Or, you know, maybe your interpretation of what they said is incorrect?

It's quite obvious to me that the original poster was confused about what the end of the article meant and trying to communicate that the explanation they got made sense.

It's also quite obvious to me that they don't think the updated policy about using slurs being okay makes sense.

> Then proceeded to get downvoted to oblivion because there’s apparently a large subset of folks who think calling homosexuality a mental disorder is a perfectly normal thing to do.

If you are receving massive downvotes, instead of insisting on your interpretation being the only correct one, maybe you can try to critically analyze your interpretation and see if there is another way to interpret what was said, instead of doubling down and believing that HN is the last bastion of LGBTQ hate.

New comment by spoctrial in "LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom"

spoctrial — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:39:06 +0000

The vast majority of people will not read about the collected telemetry, even fewer will read it and then make a decision to opt-in.The telemetry is optimizing for the vast majority, not the loud minority, hence opt-out works better in order to cater to a larger group of users. Your voting analogy is really bad.

With that said, I don't really like telemetry and will turn it off.

New comment by spoctrial in "Every Noise at Once"

spoctrial — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 13:35:53 +0000

At least you get the genre info is in the web API, just not present on the artist page (you need a token for the query to work, but you can create that on dev page): https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-artist/?id=10YNQq8...

New comment by spoctrial in "Every Noise at Once"

spoctrial — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 11:15:39 +0000

They are not that secretive, it's been written about several times. Long story short: a lot of it is still Glenn McDonald, the person behind everynoise, that was acquihired when they bought echonest.

Here are a few articles about it (there are several more): https://artists.spotify.com/blog/how-spotify-discovers-the-g... https://www.thefader.com/2020/12/02/escape-room-genre-spotif... https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-ma...

New comment by spoctrial in "Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'"

spoctrial — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:25:53 +0000

A wrapped cucumber is actually better for the environment than it's unwrapped counterpart [0] as they last longer leading to fewer deliveries and less waste

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...

Listen to Google Meet’s impressive new background noise cancellation feature

spoctrial — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21285011/google-meet-background-noise-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23466550

Points: 1

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Designing for Belonging: Why Image Localization Matters

spoctrial — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:47:04 +0000

Article URL: https://spotify.design/articles/2020-02-20/designing-for-belonging-why-image-localization-matters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383465

Points: 2

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