To my eye, HN has rendered them identically. You can preserve literal whitespace...

hyperpallium on April 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: YAPF – A formatter for Python files

To my eye, HN has rendered them identically. You can preserve literal whitespace on HN by indenting by two spaces (and a newline to separate the code formatting from ordinary text).

  it appears     like  this