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Comment by thrownthatway

7 hours ago

Why is this text not rendered as expected.

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FartyMcFarter  5 hours ago

If you type 2 asterisks it's rendered as one, it's an escape character mechanism:

This text has one asterisk on each side

*This one has two on each side*

  • thrownthatway  11 minutes ago

    Obvious now

    https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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