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I think this official page covers all of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

I'm don't think that covers everything! I have used that page when commenting, but I'm sure I've seen formatting not described there.

Really? What kind of special formatting have you seen?

I think that italics,

  code blocks,

paragraph breaks, and https://lin.ks are the only formatting options available. I certainly haven't seen anything else.

I've seen comment citations in the past. I still can't figure out how to get those to work.

> I've seen comment citations in the past. I still can't figure out how to get those to work.

Like this? It's just italics and a > symbol.

Nope, like wiki style citations to external links. Maybe it's just some superscript trickery, but I've seen it from multiple people, so I assumed it's a hidden feature.

I think it's Unicode superscript characters¹. Does that look like what you've seen?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...

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