Seems intentional. I emailed dang a while ago asking for emoji support in the about field for HN. He did recognize that's where emoji would make the most sense

Seems intentional. I emailed dang a while ago asking for emoji support in the about field for HN. He did recognize that's where emoji would make the most sense on HN, I've yet to be able to put the crying laughing emoji or the 100 emoji in my HN about field. I guess emoji are blocked to prevent HN from turning into Product Hunt?