I'm down in Austin for SXSW. And while I love seeing poor bastards pop up on my Firesheep sidebar, I can't use HN due to my own name popping up in there every time I open the page. When can we get https auth?
I build this for adding GZIP to HN for browsing on my mobile, but as a nice side effect it also does ssl<p><a href="https://quickhn.appspot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://quickhn.appspot.com/</a><p>It is just a VERY simple proxy running on Google App Engine, if you want to throw up your own the source is on github here<p><a href="https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy</a>