19.5% of HTTPS sites trigger browser warnings because of SHA-1 certificates
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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.