Does anyone know why HN doesn&#x27;t handle linebreaks correctly? I mean, I can&#x27;t imagine that it&#x27;s by accident, but I also can&#x27;t imagine why anyone would do it on purpose.<p>If it did like HTML and completely ignored linebreaks as extraneous whitespace, that would at least be consistent; if it expanded single linebreaks to doubles, that would be enforcing a layout preference for inter-paragraph blank lines; but &quot;ignore one linebreak, print two linebreaks normally&quot; is just weird.