HN does not use standard Markdown. It uses a very simple markup language possibly inspired by Markdown, but with much more limited functionality.
On HN, only two spaces are necessary for code:
example
And it only supports asterisks for italics, two blank lines for paragraphs, and turning URLs into links; it doesn't support any of the rest of Markdown.
On HN, only two spaces are necessary for code:
And it only supports asterisks for italics, two blank lines for paragraphs, and turning URLs into links; it doesn't support any of the rest of Markdown.