I’m curious what the distribution of karma is on HN, but I haven’t bothered to write a polite scraping method of reading through user’s profiles to grab counts that’s only a little more GET-y than just a human reading HN yet.

I’ve been curious about this for a long time though, already having pulled statistics like distributions of GitHub followers and stargazers.

> a polite scraping method

Shouldn't be needed, there's an API.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API