> edit: Hacker News also doesn't sanitize escape characters (...) will turn your screen red

No, it won't:

  wget -qO - https://news.ycombinator.com\
  /item?id=37963815|grep 31M|xxd -g1 -c6

  (...)
  0108: 74 3b 26 6c 74 3b  t;<
  010e: 45 53 43 26 67 74  ESC&gt
  0114: 3b 5b 33 31 4d 26  ;[31M&