> For a site that's meant to target programmers, HN's handling of code blocks is pretty poor.

Meh. It does literal code blocks, they work fine.

That's pretty much the only markup feature which does, which is impressively bad given HN only has two markup feature: literal code blocks and emphasis.

It's not like they're going to add code coloration or anything.

And while fenced code blocks are slightly more convenient (no need to indent), pasting a snippet in a text editor and indenting it is hardly a difficult task.