Not a joke.

On the malware intelligence, it is a combination of first party threat intelligence (what we see on our own network) and third-party threat intelligence across open source intelligence, specialized malware intelligence vendors, and private threat sharing communities.

Hacker News worked flawlessly for me. Maybe your network had an issue/

I definitely saw some error pages with the orange bar.

There is a name resolution problem on upstream Registry indeed. We're also looking into it.