Hacker News text formatting news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc/ Blank lines separate paragraphs. Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized. To get a literal aste

Hacker News text formatting news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc/ Blank lines separate paragraphs. Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized. To get a literal asterisk, use * or *. 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. If your url gets linked incorrectly, put it in <angle brackets> and it should work. Alt-7 on the number pad give you a bullet "•", Alt-0151 an em dash "—"