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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 1 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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Reason077 ◴[06 Apr 23 00:47 UTC] No.35462616[source]▶
What happens when the HN karma uint16 overflows? Does it roll silently around back to zero, or does the whole site crash and burn?
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1. mulmen ◴[06 Apr 23 01:21 UTC] No.35462861[source]▶
Nothing, dozens of users have more karma than dang.