I live right in the middle of the Silicon Valley and I observe the same timings. Hacker news loads to content faster than Google or Bing search. In fact hacke

I live right in the middle of the Silicon Valley and I observe the same timings. Hacker news loads to content faster than Google or Bing search. In fact hacker news is pretty much the only website I can actually feel slower to load when I am in France. Because the latency is actually not lost into the noise for once.