Why should hacker news redirect to https url?

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http request to news.ycombinator.com redirects secure URL, I can't imagine reason behind it.. is it to avoid some one hijacking browser requests on client side?

> GET / HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.12.6.2 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.2 > Host: news.ycombinator.com > Accept: / > < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently < Server: nginx < Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:13:39 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 178 < Connection: keep-alive < Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/

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