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The text processing of Hacker News is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc. HN only supports the two form
by roryokane 11y ago
The text processing of Hacker News is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc.
HN only supports the two formatting types you described, plus auto-linking of URLs written out in full, such as the one in the previous paragraph.