[oefrha]

You’re thinking about news.ycombinator.com, run on a single server from M5, which is not the same as ycombinator.com.

  > dig +short news.ycombinator.com
  209.216.230.207
  > ipinfo 209.216.230.207
  {
    "ip": "209.216.230.207",
    "hostname": "news.ycombinator.com",
    "city": "San Diego",
    "region": "California",
    "country": "US",
    "loc": "32.7157,-117.1647",
    "org": "AS21581 M5 Computer Security",
    "postal": "92101",
    "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "readme": "https://ipinfo.io/missingauth"
  }

It was moved to AWS temporarily the last time the servers failed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031136

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

It's also possible to get a copy of HN from Cloudflare in addition to M5. I keep historical DNS data and can confirm there are Cloudlfare IPs that continue to work.