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arthurcolle on Oct 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bongo Cat

The markup that it uses for comments should use one though - and apparently it does! Others have mentioned that it uses a subset of CommonMark as mentioned in your post's sibling comments.

Thanks

ihuman on Oct 23, 2020 [–]

The page with HN's formatting options is a bit hidden (in the FAQ). I'm not surprised people don't know about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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