15 reputation on Stack Overflow seems easy enough. I got it with a single answer on a low-traffic topic. 500 reputation for full Hacker News privileges, on the

15 reputation on Stack Overflow seems easy enough. I got it with a single answer on a low-traffic topic. 500 reputation for full Hacker News privileges, on the other hand, seems like quite the undertaking! I say this as a decade-long reader who still is far below that.