Right now the original google &#38; China posting is at 1087 points, the runner up is the posting by dfranke about hacking HN:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976</a><p>If anything that is a really good indication how big the karma inflation really is.<p>Dfranke spent a lot of time and effort to come up with a brilliant hack, used every trick in the book and was rightfully the top HN posting of all times.<p>A virtually unknown HN users posts a blog posting from googles official blog and aces the previous #1 (and will probably go up a lot further still).<p>So much for the theory that submissions get voted up to 'what they're worth'.