Traffic seems to be going through cloudflare. Probably to defend against a DDoS....

krallin · on Oct 30, 2013

If you get the SSL warning on Chrome, you can enter "proceed" and then press enter at the keyboard.

Even if there's no "I understand the risks, let me proceed" button, this will work.

panacea · on Oct 30, 2013

So Hacker News is being 'hacked' by hackers, and clicking 'proceed' past the security warning about insecurity is safe behaviour? ;]

krallin · on Oct 30, 2013

Well, that's only if you understand the risks! ;)

The invalid certificate was a cloudflare one, so probably acceptable : )

(and it's always better than accessing over HTTP)