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Hey this is unrelated to the topic but I was wondering why you put undersocres between "it really bothers". I have seen a few people do this on hack news and I am unsure of the meaning.

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They're trying to italicize the word via markdown (which accepts either _ or * ), but HN only supports * . So _really_ should be really

Just for emphasis :) Some chat clients convert _x_ to x. I feel it does a better job than a pair of em tags.

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