The same way emails do, approximately: > Quoted paragraph here. Many words are in this paragraph. > Second paragraph here. Reply here. Note that you’ll need

The same way emails do, approximately: > Quoted paragraph here. Many words are in this paragraph. > Second paragraph here. Reply here. Note that you’ll need to leave a blank line between paragraphs if you’re doing extended multi-paragraph quotes, which is unwieldy - but so are multi-paragraph quotes. For those, either quote less (if you’re replying), quote interleaved with replies (if it’s a multi-segment reply), or reply first and quote second^. ^ if it’s external content you’re including from an external source that you’d like to reference from your comment, as opposed to a footnote. Here’s the relevant segment from the HN faq, for the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Blank lines separate paragraphs. Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace. Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.) Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.