Top users by "karma earned per day of membership":

            Username   Age Karma   K/A
  ------------------------------------
                 dhh     1    48    48
                  pg   563 17544    31
            oldgregg     3    87    29
               nickb   429 11672    27
                donw     3    52    17
                pius   210  2803    13
              edw519   428  5316    12
                 rms   427  5017    11
              drm237   271  2851    10
                 hhm   246  2475    10
             keating    10   103    10
                 sah    42   411     9
               freax     5    45     9
           further08     2    19     9
         iamelgringo   419  3702     8
         ivankirigin   281  2486     8
          luccastera   258  2201     8
                moog    49   436     8
            sant0sk1    35   310     8
            9oliYQjP     4    35     8
               ertra     3    24     8
              davidw   429  3400     7
              terpua   302  2212     7
         kirubakaran   248  1982     7
              nreece   257  1961     7
        pchristensen   161  1210     7
              thorax    92   667     7
           gongfudoi    52   388     7

Mirror: http://weblava.net/ycombinator-news-profile20080424.tar.gz

Additional mirror: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/315/programming/datasets/ycombina...

If anyone wants to turn that user data into a CSV of username,age,karma, run this Ruby script in the folder with all the HTML files in it:

  Dir['*.html'].each do |user_file|
    user_data = File.read(user_file)
    user_name = user_file.chomp('.html')
    age = user_data[/created:<\/td><td>(\d+)/, 1]
    karma = user_data[/karma:<\/td><td>([\d\-]+)/, 1]
    puts "#{user_name},#{age},#{karma}"
  end

Yowch. I'm wondering how this can be a good thing...

Well, the data is already available on hacker news, but ye gods! you couldn't figure out a better way to package this up than a separate HTML file for each user?