Note that HN doesn't support markdown, but does have its own limited markup. Specifically, backticks are simply displayed, rather than marking a code snippet o

Note that HN doesn't support markdown, but does have its own limited markup. Specifically, backticks are simply displayed, rather than marking a code snippet or block. You can indent by four spaces for a code block as below: This is a preformatted section preceded by four spaces in the comment editor.