Sadly HN has jack shit formatting-wise (the most annoying part being you can't escape asterisks so half the time it's going to emphasise a comment section and remove your asterisks despite that not being what you wanted)
I'd be fine with spartan (only support for code blocks) or more featureful (escapes at least), but as things are it's less spartan and more annoyingly half-assed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Sadly HN has jack shit formatting-wise (the most annoying part being you can't escape asterisks so half the time it's going to emphasise a comment section and remove your asterisks despite that not being what you wanted)