[bloopernova]

I wish hackernews supported references and footnotes.

Semantically tagged so folks could style them as they wanted.

[dredmorbius]

It does by convention,[1] though not your second feature.

You could of course submit that as a request to the mods / dev team at [e-mail].

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Notes:

1. See: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>