HN doesn't use Markdown unfortunately. I really, really hate that so many platforms use proprietary markup languages. I think the Google products have several

HN doesn't use Markdown unfortunately. I really, really hate that so many platforms use proprietary markup languages. I think the Google products have several slightly different ones, HN uses something completely proprietary (https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc), and even markdown has variants that can be pretty annoying to deal with.