quickest way to earn some hacker news points?
pg: Roughly twice as many points come from comments as stories    > (with (s 0 c 0) 
        (for n (- maxid* 10000) maxid* 
          (let i (item n) 
            (if (astory i)   (++ s (realscore i)) 
                (acomment i) (++ c (realscore i))))) 
        (list s c)) 
    (14501 28488)

so the way to get lots of karma would seem to be to post good comments.  But that assumes comments and stories take equal work, which may not be true.Why do you need to get karma fast, though?