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by ancarda 2988 days ago
Off-topic: how did you format that equation (K = mv^2/2) so nicely? e.g. mv is in italics. It looks really nice.

Does Hacker News have built in LaTeX, or is that just very clever use of Unicode?

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Seems to be just unicode in a code block. mv is 𝑚𝑣
And the verbatim lines are explained here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

And two black squares on Firefox beta on my Android 5.1 phone.
Works fine in Firefox Beta (and normal Firefox) on my Android 8 phone.
OK, so fixed in up-to-date Android or with a better vendor (mine is TCL [Alcatel branded]).