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thrownthatwaytoday at 5:33 AM1 replyview on HN

Why is this text not rendered as expected.


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FartyMcFartertoday at 7:50 AM

If you type 2 asterisks it's rendered as one, it's an escape character mechanism:

This text has one asterisk on each side

*This one has two on each side*