On a related note, I submitted this article with an HTTPS URL and HN parsed it as a blank page (but http obviously worked). You can see that blank page here: ht

On a related note, I submitted this article with an HTTPS URL and HN parsed it as a blank page (but http obviously worked). You can see that blank page here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982899 My guess is that HN doesn't support the SNI extension to HTTPS, so it's unable to parse certain sites. Y'all should fix this. I should note that (assuming the SNI theory is correct) that HN isn't alone. My understanding is that Twitter didn't support SNI until last month and some other major sites still don't.