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If you add two ' '(space) characters in front of a line, HN will stop "formatting" your text.

awesome I've been trying to figure out how to do that myself. Is there any place that has a list of all of these things?

I honestly can't see why that isn't linked from the posting page.

What's even more strange is that it isn't linked from the new post page, as you said, but it is linked from the edit post page.