Is the formatting for news.yc documented anywhere, btw?

If it is, link plz.

Is PG neglecting his users?! And how is this?! So he's a bad teacher, not following his own advices. That's sad.

He is kinda busy, you know. This isn't a business. If he had neglected users at Viaweb that would be different.

(I just find it curious that any single user here has to guess how to do proper formatting.)

Probably not. All I know: using one star on each sides of something for italics, two for bold, and if you put a space at the beginning of a line, you get fixed-width font (for code).

No bold here; two stars just cancel each other out.

and links get auto <a href>'d if you use the full http:// address