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Comment by cpach | Hacker News Reader

If you do view source, it’s actually \n, but it’s not displayed as such because of this CSS rule:

  .title {
    font-variant: small-caps;
  }

So, the HN title is wrong.

The original title is.

No, the original title is correct, small caps are just an alternate way of setting lowercase letters.

When have you ever seen small caps in use on this website?

In addition to what others have said about smallcaps being a stylistic rendering, if you copy & paste the original title, you'll get

  Whence '\n'?