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Reason077 on April 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

What happens when the HN karma uint16 overflows? Does it roll silently around back to zero, or does the whole site crash and burn?

mulmen on April 6, 2023 [–]

Nothing, dozens of users have more karma than dang.

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