[tombert]

I've gotten recruiters reach out for jobs because of my fairly high Hacker News karma. This isn't speculation on my end, they actually told me that.

I agree it's idiotic; I'm quite confident that it wouldn't be that hard to cheat this system, and even if there absolutely no way to cheat the system, it's not like Hacker News points translate to smartness; my most upvoted posts have basically nothing to do with software engineering.