Comment by gus_massa
9 hours ago
> You turned it sideways. Using a colon, a dash, and a parenthesis character in series, you could make a sideways smile or frown. It looked like this: [happy-face] or [sad-face]
Did the editor repace :) with [happy-face]?
??? This isn’t on the linked page.
Wrong thread. The correct one is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767371
Maybe the author uses a CMS that's supposed to replace tags like [happy-face] with an emoji, but something broke?