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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: 0.236s | source
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lopkeny12ko ◴[06 Apr 23 00:26 UTC] No.35462468[source]▶
Why is this notable? Is it because karma is represented as a 16 bit integer in the DB and it's about to overflow?
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1. mulmen ◴[06 Apr 23 01:23 UTC] No.35462875[source]▶
Not sure, probably just because it’s a significant hacker number. It’s not an overflow, many users have more karma than dang.