HN formatting is limited to the following: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Because the monospaced format is intende

HN formatting is limited to the following: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Because the monospaced format is intended for code, it assumes that lines will be short, so lines longer than ~85 chars get the overflow effect.