We're also doing a [reddit-powered interview with Randall](http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ihy8/ask_randall_munroe_xkcd...) - he'll answer the top 10 questions at the SF event (if you can't make it, we'll be live [on justin.tv](http://justin.tv/reddit).

Geek Reading starts at 7 p.m. at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Please RSVP to events@eff.org. Admission is $30, and attendees must be 21+.

Somebody's used to reddit's markdown syntax. :)

Why doesn't HN use markdown?

HN does use Markdown...it's just a very incomplete implementation. Since HN is written in Arc, there would have been no off-the-shelf parser, and I assume pg opted to use the simplest subset that would work. There also seems to be an aversion to fancy-pants stuff on HN, so it may be intentional. Why get clever when clarity isn't improved by doing so? (That said, I kinda miss having full Markdown link support.)

Thanks for the explanation; but I don't really think that hyperlink anchors, block quotations and lists (ordered and unordered) qualify as "fancy-pants". :)

That's literally across the street from where I work... guess I'll be there.