[LeifCarrotson]

It's not helped by the fact than HN markup is interpreting asterisks as requests for italics and backslashes as escape sequences...

[simias]

The fact that HN still doesn't have a proper way to display code or mathematical formulas after all these years is a bit ridiculous. I guess by now it's part of the website's culture...

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I'd prefer real markdown, but iirc 4 spaces of indentation does it?

    Foo*bar

[saagarjha]

Two: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[rlue]

Does anyone know where to find a guide to HN markup? I've exhausted my google-fu and have come up dry...

[saagarjha]

There's a short one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[rlue]

Thanks!