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Actually, if you check Archive.org [0], choose "urls" in menu, then sort by url in reverse order, you will get resources with https dated 1996. So I'd say it's at least plausible.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.python.org*

It's at least plausible. Sendmail.org had SSL support back then. Every time we restarted the web server we had to manually log in to unlock the cert!

Looks like the first https URL in the list is from 2016.

Not sure why the HN title is editorialized to add an emphasized HTTPS, weird.

Edit: HN fixed the title

'https://' is included in the title in the submission. Unless you're saying it was somehow emphasised more than that here?

I see the HTTPS:// was removed from the submission title, it's what got me curious about it.

Sadly, what archive.org does with protocols and subdomains is quite a messy guesswork, from what I observed: take a look at "HTTPS page from 1998":

http://web.archive.org/web/19981201210443/https://www.info.c...

Neither the protocol nor the "www" subdomain are "right", yet archive.org serves some snapshot.