Okay, so if you try to connect to news.ycombinator.com and instead get connected to a random MITM attacker who then connects to the real news.ycombinator.com an

Okay, so if you try to connect to news.ycombinator.com and instead get connected to a random MITM attacker who then connects to the real news.ycombinator.com and proxies your traffic, you're fine with that? Right. Why would I trust ycombinator.com more than the MITMer? I have zero actual experience with YC, so any information I give them is by definition information I would give to an untrusted party.