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by sonofgod 3064 days ago
Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace.

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

italic

  code block
  :)