[burfog]

You too are losing your asterisks. Maybe a bit of Unicode can help. The only thing not stripped out by Hacker News seems to be this:

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[simcop2387]

Damn markdown :). Looks like it's far too late for me to fix it now, but I'll have to keep that in mind in the future.

[nothrabannosir]

( * Or an asterisk surrounded by two spaces; * )