As someone else suggested, this is likely part of our GGC program. If you can give me info on which ISP + Geographic region you're in, I can take a look and see if there's anything in our logs to indicate a problems; you can email me details at myusernamehere at google dot com with details, since I don't routinely check Hacker News.
If you can reproduce a bad experience, and right click on the player, click "Get Debug Info", and share that result, it's the most helpful thing for us to dig into problems.
If you can reproduce a bad experience, and right click on the player, click "Get Debug Info", and share that result, it's the most helpful thing for us to dig into problems.