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by judge2020 2274 days ago
Developers have been using <something>.dev as their localhost hostname even though the .dev TLD wasn't a designated test/reserved TLD[0]. Everyone's non-https development environments broke when Google added the TLD to HSTS preload, forcing browsers to load it in HTTPS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15268701

0: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-2