Public Hacker News user: karma, the about text, and nothing invented.

A public Hacker News user via hn.algolia.com/api/v1/users/{handle}: karma and the about text, and nothing invented. KARMA IS ITS OWN FIELD, not followers. Hacker News has no follower graph -- followers, following and posts_count are all null here -- and mapping karma onto followers would put a plausible value in the wrong field, stable enough that a client comparing audience across platforms would read karma as reach. The anchor is handle, NEVER karma: a new account legitimately has karma 0, and treating 0 as absent would report a real user as missing. A user that does not exist is a real 404 and costs no credit.