[lsb]

Huh? You can download the source code for HN, and you can infer how voting happens from Firebug. Where's the lack of trust part?

[dag]

That's kind of the point, nothing was said that wasn't already public available information, yet people got angry at Xach for saying it.

The lack of trust is not trusting the community not to abuse an explained hack, and the whole is made dumb by the fact that anyone can figure out the hack for themselves even if it wasn't explained to them.