If you add two ' '(space) characters in front of a line, HN will stop "formattin... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		burgerbrain on March 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenSSL’s tools don’t support IPv6, patches unmerg... If you add two ' '(space) characters in front of a line, HN will stop "formatting" your text.

simcop2387 on March 6, 2012 [–]

awesome I've been trying to figure out how to do that myself. Is there any place that has a list of all of these things?

icebraining on March 6, 2012 | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (it's linked from the FAQ)

steve-howard on March 6, 2012 | | [–]

I honestly can't see why that isn't linked from the posting page.

icebraining on March 6, 2012 | | [–]

What's even more strange is that it isn't linked from the new post page, as you said, but it is linked from the edit post page.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact