To answer the question you would need a service like thousand-eyes [1] to show you which region is not responding. Cloudflare uses Anycast and when you ping 1.

To answer the question you would need a service like thousand-eyes [1] to show you which region is not responding. Cloudflare uses Anycast and when you ping 1.1.1.1 you are actually hitting a different set of clusters specific to your area. This is why the ping time is so low for many people. HN users are all over the place and unlikely they would all list their location. [1] - https://www.thousandeyes.com/ https://www.thousandeyes.com/ [paid service, happy customer]